SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LX, Issue 2262, 7 December 1896, Page 4

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(Per s.s. Monowai at Auckland.) London despatches of November 6lh mention that there is great business buoyancy and a general rise m values m the English markets, which is ascribed to tv« success of the Republican candidate (Major M'Kinley) for the PreBidency of the United States. Scottish people are m a state of agitation over the playing of golf on Sundays, and Mr Munroe Ingram, M.P. for Leith, who defends it, is likely to lose his seat m consequence. The lady golfers of Bcotland appear moat enthusiastic m favour of Sunday play. The Manchester Guardian is the.authority for saying that Mr Chamberlain during his late visit to the United States became a convert to bi-metailism. The Canadian Government have granted from £3000 to £4000 to be expended m England with the object of introducing Canadian products to the British market. Hunter's Review (London) for the week ending Nov.. 7 points out that forty-four bicycle companies have been floated during the past year, with a capital of nearly £14,500,000, and that out of the purchase price of £9,048,275, the vendors took over £800,000 m cash. The Review thinks this industry is overdone, and that the American machines will eventually drive jiigh-prieed British goods out of the market. The English municipal elections during the week ending November 7th, made a change of opinion m favour of the Liberals. In the provincial towns the Liberals gained many seats, while the Labour party suffered badly. The Liberals gained five seats m Leeds alone. Atabanquet given to Lord Duffenn at Belfast, Ireland, on .October 28th, that eminent statesman declared that owihg to deafness he had definitely retired from official life. He spoke warmly m favour of arbitration* m settlement of international disputes. ' On December 16th the Prince of Wales will be nominated for election as Grand Master of -English Mark Master Masons. This will be the twelfth successive term with which he has been honoured. On the following evening the Prince will, for the second consecutive year m United Grand Lodge, be nominated for election as Most Worshipful Grand Master of English Freemasons. The respective, elections will be held on March 2nd and 3rd, 1896. \ , x Lord Charles Beresford jn a speech at the Constitutional Club, on October 29th, declared that the time had arrived for England to boldly announce her intention to annex Egypt. The Morning Post (Conservative; applauds this policy. Two young Scandinavians, living at Clydebauk, near Glasgow, have invented a cheap and powerful battery, which, if it fulfils expectations* is bound to revolutionise electric traction. Mr Gladstone is about to become a bicyclist, inspired thereto by the success of his granddaughter, Dorothy Drew. Phil May takes George Dv Maurier's place on Punch.