ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1557, 5 June 1885, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Ihe Australia left Frisco on May 10th. The passage was fine and uneventful On —the 88th t_tt.ahe passed tlie City of Sydney bound to 'Frisco. Passengers :— Saloon. — Mi and Mrs Gall and two children, Messrs Martin, Fitchett, Stone, Fabst, Stock, Gardiner Robertson, M'Lashan ; and 4 steerage. For Sydney, thirty five cabin and 64 steerage. Among the through passengers; were General Morgan, Hon. John Dunn, Rev Hay Jenkins Managa, and J. C. Williams. Among the new Zealand cargo are 256 ca.es of canned goods, 800 do. salmon, 15 bales. GENERAL SUMMARY. (With dates from Europe up to May 9th.) The Anglo German International Commission appointed to arrange the terms of tiie occupation of British and German colonies in the Pacific Ocean bas concluded its labors. The status of Samoa remains unsettled. Lady Lonsdale, on whose account Edmoud Yates suffered imprisonment for libel, was married to Earl de Grray at St Martin's Church, Charing Cross. Lord Ripon, tbe father of tbe bridegroom, Earl Pembroke, and a few select friends of the bride and groom were the only persons present Ada Cavendish, actress, was married to Frank A. Marshall, dramatist. At Greenock on May Ist water for the first time was admitted into the immense James Watt docks. The cost was £500,000. They intended for the accommodation of trans-AtUuu. stearaers. The yacht Galatea, a contestant for the American cap, was lauuched from Greenock ou May Ut. The Japanese village which has for some time been in the exhibition at Hyde Park, Was destroyed by fire on May day~? The village consisted of five streets of houses and shops constructed and peopled by Japanese, who w«re to be seen engaged in their various occupations as iv their own country. Beer Twinee Lodge, the country seat of the Duke ef St. Albans, was j serously damaged by fire, and many j valuable pictures, rare books, aud old j china were destroyed. Cholera ia prevailing in Calcutta to au alarming extent The agitation in favor of offering Lowell, the late Americau Minister at i the Com t of St James, the Morton Professorship at Oxford, says a London despatch, gathering strength. Lowell signified his willingness to accept if the offer is unanimous. The salary is 4500 dollars per annum. The six days' walking match closed j in London on May 2nd, at tbe Aquarium amid a crowd of spectators. The contest lost interest owing to the retirement of Littlewood on account of illness. Aechill, the French long distance champion, completed only 193 miles. The youtii Connor, who made ' 837 miles, is considered tbe coming I champion. The total score of the j priucipal contestants is — Powell, 480 ; j Cartwright, 393 ; Mason,372. The race for one Thousand Guineas stake for tbrea year old fillies was rnn on the Bth at Newmarket, being tbe tirst meeting. It was woo by the Duke of Westminister's Farewell. There were 16 starters. Lowell, ex Minister to England, unveiled the burst of Samol Taylor Coleridge, in Poet's Borner, Westminister Abbey, in the presence of the whole Coleridge family, many noblemen, menbers or the House of Commons the Bishop, and a large number of Americans. The bust was the gift of tlie late Revd. Dr Mercer, of Rhode Island. Lowell paid an eloquent tribute to the poet's memory. Lord ( oleridge returned thanks on behalf of the family. The Right Hon. John Nash, the present Attorney-General of Ireland, bas been appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland, vice Sir Edward Sullivan de ceased. The Irish Local Government Bill will probably be introduced in Parliament before the close of the session. The new increase provides for a properly elected Council in each county, whose duty it shall be to conduct the administrative business hitherto relegated to grand juries. Provision is also made for a Central Council at Dublin, to be elected by the County Councils. This Council will discharge the functions of Boards of Education, Public Works, Ac. It is also meditated to abolish Uie Lord Lieutenant aud create a Secretary of State for Ireland, but this is still D.idfcided. It is not unlikely that the measure will be passed this year. The 'Frisco papers refer to tin mysterious St Louis murder, foi

which St. Angine was arrested here on the City of Sydney, on the alleged charge af committing it. Tho beadless body, registered as C. Arthur Preller, London, was found* in a trunk in the St. Louis Hotel, on tho 13Ui of April. When the trunk was opened it contained the body of a middleaged man doubled up inside it On the side of the trunk and over the head of the corpse, printed in large letters, were the words, •« So perish all traitors to a great cam**" Tbe body presented a horrible aspect, and was in an advanced state of decemposition. The personal effects in tbe murdered man's trunks indicated that the owner was a gentleman, and of means and culture. His room mate was Walter A. Lennox Maxwell, who is accused ef the murder, also an Englishman, and one of the Furnaham Maxwells, residing on an estate at Drummela, Ireland. He has disappeared, and the detective learned that he left 'Frisco in disguise on the steamer City »f Sydney under the name of Dangine Preller. The murdered man belonged to the Plymouth Brethern, and was a man of stroaf religious principles.