San Francisco Mail.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2123, 19 October 1885, Page 2

San Francisco Mail.

Auckland, October 18, i f 1 ® Sydney arrived at four o clock this afternoon, The passage was an uneventful one. She left San Francisco on September 26, The Southern mails left Auckland by the five o'clock train for Onehunga, but it is uncertain whether the Wanaka will get across the Manukau bar to-night. GENERAL SUMMARY. _ San Francisco, September 26. London despatches of September 25 re-1

port a fearful cyclone at False Point, at fcho back of Bengal. The telegraph lines wove swept away, vessels foundered, and many lives were lost. Mary Anderson the American actress, accidentally wounded herself in tho breast while playing Juliet atthe Dublin Theatre on tho 25th Soptomber. An uproar.ensued and the audience were only quietened on being assured by Miss Anderson that the injury was trifling. The Duke of Edinburgh has had some trouble with his hop-pickers on his Kentish estates. The" picking was finished on the 25th September, and the usual price for pickers is Is fid a basket. The Duke offered a shilling, which was refused amid such a row that the Duke became frightened, and quickly paid the full rates. The Rev Dr William Smith has been appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Edinburgh. The Princess of Wales formed a new English church in Copenhagen on the 17th September, dedicated to St. Albans. It is proposed to cleanse and rebuild the slums of Windsor, and it has also been suggested that the expense be de-: frayed from the Queen's private purse. filthy^ tPWn " SaW t0 be fri S htfull 7 London club-men accept it as a proof of oil' Charles Dilke's innocence of the charges recently brought against him, tliat the father of the lady implicated (Mr Lustace Smith, M.P.) is seen often in company with the baronet, Lord Chief Justice Coleridge talks of resigning. Thirty soldiers belonging to a Highland regiment came in collision on September otn with a dozen cavalry men in a village near Plymouth. The : Scotchmen were routed, and then the artillerymen carried the village by storm, j Mr Gladstone's daughter and young Arnold lorley, son of Mr John Morley, M.P., late of the Pall Mall Gazette, are to be married.

Mr Samuel Plimsoll, the millionaire, philantropist and "sailors' friend," is about to marry Miss Wade, an enormously rich spinster, living in Hull. A lunatic was arrested in Buckingham Palace on September 8, while seeking an interview with the Queen. He had an ordinary grease bottle, which lie insisted on presenting to Her Majesty in order that, by looking in it, she might have a knowledge of all that was happening, Mr James Bowman, the gamek°eeper so frequently mentioned in the Queen's Life m the Highlands," found a man hanging head downwards oh a wire fence m the Forest on September 12. The position °f the dead man forbade the idea that he had committed suicide. (( l the well-known song, The Maid of Llangollen," died in London on' September 10. Her name was Jennie Edwards, and sho was the proprietress of an hotel. The song was written by Charles Matthews and John Parry.

On the 10th September, at night, two men approached the powder magazine at the \\ oolwich arsenal, and, surprising the sentry, beat him brutally. They were about to enter the magazine, but hearing a noise, they decamped, Prince Batteubreg has resigned from the German Service, and has been made a Commander in the British navy. There is a chorus of indignation from the Service papers. The Times of September 14th called attention to the presence of Chief Justice \\aite, of the United States Supreme Court in London, and asked that a reception be given compatible with that accorded by Americansto Lord Coleridge. Several Socialists, who persisted in addressing open-air audiences at a convenient space in the heart of the East End ot London, were arrested on Sunday, 13th, for "obstructing traffic." The arrests led nearly to a riot. The Social Democratic Federation have now determined to hold a mass meeting in the same place every Sunday, and subscriptions are being made for a defence fund. By an accident at the Oatwell Colliery, at Ilkestone, eight miles from Derby on September 10th, 300 miners were entombed, and rescued by way of the furnace shaft,

At a great mass meeting of IrishAmerican sympathisers held at San Francisco, Monsignor Capel addressed the "meeting. He declared his dissent from t ,°f 1(l held England responsible for all Ireland's ills, and who looked for all these to be cured by obtaining Home Rule. He recommended that Irish industries be aided by patronising her manufactures, with united action to' sewjre autonomy, not absolute seperation. The grape crop of New Jersey and Delaware is the largest ever reported, A new star has been discovered in the nebula of Andromeda. It is a glowing point of the eithth magnitude, rounded by a cloudless nebulous mass, from which it sprang. American astronomers say that the appearance of this new star throws doubt on some long-accepted theories, The revenue authorities seized at Lexington, Kentucky, 1000 barrels of whiskey owned by John Thomson, distiller and bonded to Melbourne.

The decision of the Appeal Court upholding; the sentence of death on Riel, the Canadian rebel, caused great excitement throughout Canada, and there were many threats in case the sentence was executed.

Late Panama advices state that the first section of the canal will bo opened m October to the full- breadth and depth, from Colon Hill to Tiger a distance of twelve kilometres,