ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FEANCISCO MAIL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4549, 27 May 1889, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FEANCISCO MAIL.

• — — — • (By Teleoiiaph. ) (Per 8.M.3. Alamedu, at Auckland). AUCKLAND, Mat 20. The 8.M.3. Alamcda arrived at 7 a.m. from San Francisci with English and American mails. The vessel brings dates as follows s —London, April 19th, San Francisco, May sth.— GENERAL SUMMARY (Dates from Eyropo to May 4th.) General Boulangor is said to be almost unnoticed m London where he oxpected to become tli* lion of tbe suasion. Mr Joseph Chamberlain is resigning his membership of the Liberal Society. Ho said he wu no longer m harmony with iU principles. It is stated that the recent visit of Count Bismarck to England, ostensibly on a political mission, wae really for the purpose of marry, ing a relative of Lord Londonderry. It, how. ever, resulted m a complete failure, and tho engagement is off. Xho London Telegraph, of April 17th, proposes a national recognition of the explorer Stanley's services, on his return from Africa. Protector Harrison, an Englishman, was <;ommjtt«d to Londonderry gaol and tried on Tuesday, April 23rd, on a charge of assisting besieged tenants at Gwcodore. While being conveyed to g ipl bo ma heartily ciwriid by

the populaco. The sergeant who was m obarjo of the police ordered his men to be it the devil out of them, and Fathers GL'der, Boyle, Conybeare, O'Brien, and O'Shea, as well as a reporter of the London Daily News, were roughly handled. Women were trampled upon by the crowd, and m some instances clubbed by the police The Unionist Conference at BirmiugTiain on April 25tk, adopted resolutions affirming that the land question is at the root of Irish discontent, and urged Government to introduce a measure to enable the tenants to become owners of the land. In his speech at Bristol on April 13th, Lord Salisbury made a bitter attack upon Home Bute. He ridiculed the agitation, and said that Cornwall had as much right to Home Bute as Ireland. The nationality arguments, he said, were claptrap which would sacrifice the best interests of industry and commerce to mere empty sentiment. On May 2nd the Tipperary Court affirmed the sentences of Messrs O'Connor, Condon, and Manning, all members of Parliament, for offenceß under the Crimes Act. They were conveyed to Clonmcl gaol the same afternoon. A crowd met the prisoners at the station and cheered. The prisoners refused to enter the pri»jn van, and a desperate struggle ensued between the guards and the prisoners, m which tho people took part. The police, finally, to avoid bloodshed, allowed them to walk to gaol, with the exception of Manning, whoso foot was severely wounded, and he went m a carriage. In his address at the banquet of the College of Physicians, Dublin, on the 17th April, the Marquis of Londonderry, m announcing hia resignation of the office of Lord Lieutenant, denied that this atep was duo to any thing that Mrßalfour had said, fie accepted office, as he stated, for two year*, and agreed to retain it for a third year at the requeit of Government. Hsnry Bochefort's son committed suicide at Bonu, m Algieria, on April 28th. At the Paris Exhibition every department is backward. Tbat of tho United States is especially so. The British exhibit is nearest completion. Five thousand mon are working on it day and nisht, but it will be impossible to hare it ready on tho official opening. The Eiffel tower will not be ready till June. The Empress Elizabeth of Austria, now at Wiesbergen, ia subject to the same mental malady tbat afllicted her couaia, King Louis of Bavaria. When tho Empress beard of the death of Prince Budolph she imagined that she was her son's murderer. At preseDt the acute stage of disease has passed, leaving a noUblo softening of the brain. It woe telegraphed on April 23rd that the j Emperor had paid tho late Crown Prince's I debts, which amounted to 2,500,030 dollars. A wealthy Scotchman residing m HongKong has offered to subscribe £10,000 to a fund to indemnify the London Tim-.s m its present trouble. What is known as tho Australian Election Law has been adopted by both Houses of the State of Missouri legislature. The contract for building powerful coast defence ironclads has been awarded by tho naval authorities at Washington to San Francisco. An English syndicate has subscribed the money necessarp to complete the tunnel under the Hudson Kiver. New York. Contrary to Edwin Booth's physician's predictions, and to general expectations, when he was recently stricken with paralysis, he reappeared on April 15th at Cleveland Operahouse, and played lago to Mr Barrett's Othello. One of tho most extraordinary sights evor seen m a frontier country was presented m tho heart of the Indian territory for a week or more before April 23, on which day a large area of land, known as Okalhoma, formerly held as a military reservat'on, but lately turned over to tho Intorior Department, was proclaimed by the President open to settlement by American citizens. Thousands upon thousandj of intending settlers had gathered waiting for tho signal to advance, and were only held back from anticipating the date fixed by tho President, by the presence of a large body of troops. When the order to advance was given, this army of homeseekers flowed over the promised land like a rush of waterjwhen the floodgates are opened. There were some fights and lojs of lifo as a consequence among the selectors, but all things considered the settlement under the circumstances was effected without much trouble.