SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6437, 5 January 1889, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

' ♦ News Summary. [Pbb Fbxss Association.] (Per E.M.S. Maripoaa at Auckland.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 5. TheMariposa arrived at Auckland this morning, bringing European news up to Dec. 15. . GENERAL. A woman named Gallagher has just arrived at Queenstown by the a>s. TJmbria, from New York. She was arrested on Deo. 15, and had fifty dynamite cartridges concealed in her dress. George Boutledge, the publisher, died on Dec. 14. The London Standard of Dec. 13 says that the letter written by Osman Digna to SirW. Grenfell, asserts that the Mahdi had had an engagement with Emm Bey;, and defeated him, the latter's troops having mutinied. Emm and the white traveller surrendered to the Mahdi, and were held, prisoners. He will surrender them, provided that Egypt abandons Suakitn ; otherwise they will be executed on Jan. 10. Mr Gladstone has published a letter, in which he stated that John Bright and himself were always the best of friends. In a cheap restaurant in Bermondaey,London, on Dec. 10, a man made an unprovoked attack on the landlady's daughter, and cut her throat. Her life was endangered. Great excitement prevailed, as the assailant was supposed to be "Jack the Ripper." The British ship Hartlepool was wrecked off Eggessund, Norway. Only four members of the crew of twenty-one were saved. Dr Jumblety, who was lately arrested in London on suspicion of being the Whitechapel murderer, and afterwards discharged, was missing on Dec. 1. He had arrived at New York, and is there under police surveillance. A sensation has been caused in Borne by the refusal of the Pope to bless a number of medals and relics sent to him by Irish priests for the Papal benediction before distribution in Ireland. In refusing to perform the act, the Pope sternly said, " I cannot bless them. The people of Ireland are disobedient ; they seem to prefer the gospel of Dillon and O'Brien to the ! Gospel of Jesus Christ." Mail advices from the West Coast of Africa which arrived at Liverpool on Dec. 3, says that a rumour has reached Bonny from the Upper Niger that Stanley is proceeding along the great rivers under the British, flag. The natives are friendly. Another despatch says' that" bhe Wtjite Pasha is at; Bahr-61-Gnazel, moving Nortbv Military men in Londdn believe that the; White Pasha is Stanley.

— — • \ ■ i \ y ■ — ; A man named Houston, Secretary of the. Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union, is said to have sold the Parnell letters to the Times. He bought them from Richard Pimot, by whom they were forged. It was officially- announced/ on Dec. 13, that the Pope never intended to leave Borne.