SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5993, 30 July 1887, Page 6

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

(Per B.M.S. Alamcda at Auckland.)

GENERAL SUMMARY OF NEWS.

(Dates from Europe to June 30.)

Mr Justin M'Carthy writes from London on June 27 that there is not the slightest truth in the reports about Mr Parnell retiring from political life. A despatch from London on June 27 announces the discovery of Ovid'a tomb near Kusterdamir. . .

Queen Kapiolani, of Hawaii, Bailed from London for New York on July 2. Canon Wilberforce arrived at Southampton on June 30, much improved in health.

Despatches of June 25 say the British Government is considering an offer by which a subsidy of .£50,000 yearly will secure three lines of first-class steamers on the Trans-Canadian route to the Eastone line to connect Liverpool and Halifax, and the other two to connect the Pacific terminus of the Canadian and Pacific railway with Australia and the East. The Dowager Lady Meux, while travelling from London to Paris on June 25, was robbed by a confidence man whom she met en route of jewels valued at .£65,000. A despatch to the New York World from London, on June 25, says that Queen Kapiolani, of Hawaii, Prince Kowatuso, of Japan, and all the Indian Princes, are soon to be entertained exclusively at Windsor. The colour line has been sharply drawn. It has been known for some time that Queen Kapiolani was a veritable b6te noire to European crowned heads assembled at the Jubilee celebrations.

An exploeion ocourred in Roberts, Slade, and Co.'a chemical works, Manchester, on June 22, which destroyed the building. The windows for miles around were smashed by the concussion, and many houses near the factory were demolished. A fire ensued and spread to the adjoining buildings. The cause was the bursting of a retort, and many workmen were Bcalded by the acid. Great damage was done to thePonoray Palace. Ono fiioman and a girl were killed. The Rothschilds and the Barings will isßue iE4,000,000 preferred shares of the Manchester Canal Company, providing that Parliament passes the Bill authorising the issue.

Misß Agatha Ramsay, of Girton College, beat all the male students in classics at Cambridge at the recent examination, being the only one of either sex to pass in the first division. She is only twenty years of age. The male contestants fairly cheered her name when the list was announced.

- Five steamers of the Lake Monarch line (between London and New York) were offered at auction at the first-named place on June 9, and drew only a bid of jeil2,ooo for the lot. They were withdrawn. The German barque Elsa, from "Wilmington, North Carolina, was picked up in the English Channel on June 9, and towed to Dungenesß, where she sank. Nothing has been heard of the crew. The Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham died on June 9, aged 72 years.