Arrival of the Pri'sco Mail.

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1150, 14 January 1884, Page 2

Arrival of the Pri'sco Mail.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, Jan. 12. The steamer Australia arrived- at 6.30 o'clock this morning.. J3ke left Frisco on the 23rd December, The passage was uneventful. The Australia leaving at date is the first departure under the re-ar-ranged service. The city of New York .steamer has been withdrawn and will be placed m the China trade. The New York Commercial Bulletin, of the 20th December, m r : 6.- : viewing the Bill introduced m Congres to replace the old duty on wool, ' advises Ohio growers to learn a lesson fr,o.m California; which now supplies the knit-goods manufacturers of. Cohoes,' New "fork, flipping its wool so clean that it hasN^j^ced: the Australian product m their mms. Cohoes is now the great competitor of Nottingham, England. A movement has been commenced against secret .societies by the Christian League, embracing the leading divines of the United States, The movement for a separate G-o- . vernment is gaining ground m Mani- : toba, owing to the mis-government i at Ottawa. A great convention 'was' helo! at Winnipeg. ' " : Mr Brennan, : lJon. of the Irish" 'Land League, ~\a in'^an Francisco for the purpose of raising money for the League. Yillard, the proprietor and succes*

ful manager of the Northern Pacific railroad, has resigned the Presidency of the Company, owing to pressure from the discontented stockholders. His manipulations have almost beggared several leading men of the country, while he is reported to be worth ten million dollars. A twenty years' lawsnit ended m San Francisco on December 18, by a pioneer of California and a mil" lionaire, Charles M'Lauglin, being assassinated m his office by a rail- j way contractor, Frome Cox, who ; had grown desperate by . bis protracted; legal. difficulties with M'Lftughlin. Cox originally ad-r vauced money to the deceased to build a railway betweeii San Jose and San Francisco. The New York Commissioners are purifying the Police Department. Five officers have been dismissed, two permitted to resign, one placed on trial for murder, and others charged with drunkenness and obtaining money under false pre<tences. Seventy workmen, who were dis~ charged from the Patterson locomotive works, New Jersey, left for the Clyde to work on iron shipbuilding, paying their own passages. American Free Trade journals state that this augurs badly for protection. The British and Chinese flags were publicly burnt by an assemblage of Irishmen m SanJ Francisco, on Sunday, December 9th. The ere-: mation was preceded by a resolution of sympathy for O'Donnell. Mr Bradlaugh met with a cordial reception m Paris, but he studiously avoided the Anarchists. There is a strike of engineers on the Canadian Pacific Bailway, and business is at a standstill. The company was retrenching. Mr Wilson, curate of St. George's Cathedral, Kingston, Ontario, has been dismissed for attending a Salvation Army meeting. The Pope has approved the proposal to erect a memorial church to Daniel O'Connell at Calmeeven, County Kerry. Archbishop Croke i will lay the corner stone. The executrix of Dowager Lady Lytton threatens to publish three hundred letters of the late lord unless his son will do justice to the memory of his mother. The refusal of Mr Goschen to accept the Speakership of the House of Commons is said to be the result of his aspiration to succeed the Marquis of Eipon as Viceroy of India. Fourteen thousand cotton operatives are idle m Lancashire. Half of the Blackburn looms are stopped, and the men on strike. : The Anglo-Egyptian bank, Alexandria, offered the Egyptian Government, ten millions sterling, •to construct a canal parallel to the present Suez Canal. The deficit m the Egyptian budget for 1883 is three million dollars. Violent gales occurred throughout Great, Brittain on December 12, ! much damage being done m England and the provinces. : Gerald Massey, who has arrived m New York to deliver a course of lectures, has commenced an action against the New York Times, with damages at 5000dols, for publishing a defamatory article. The Bolivian Commissioners at Santo De Chili are rapidly completing peace negotiations between Peru and Chili. The London police have begun to raid the fashionable gambling houses On the 15th they entered the Baccarat Club, Jinks Club, Park Club, and others known as swell hells, and warned the players and proprietors. The failures are announced of Peyton and Peyton, furniture manufacturers, Birmington, for £10,000, and Abbott, Page and Co., London, stockbrokers, for £165,000. Cyoret, a Lyons Anarchist, concerned m the explosion or the theatre there, has been sentenced to death. Rosa Bonheur is dangerously ill at Fontainbleau. Tremendous floods m the Scheldt did great damage. Manderfell, Governor of Alsace and Lorraine has issued an order abolishing the use of the French language m debate. The staff of La Lanterne entertained Bradlaugh at a reception. Paeis. Sarah Bernhardt has assaulted Marie Colonvier, an actress who accompanied her to America, for publishing a satirical biography of her under the title " Sarah Bernhaum." , The civil suifc brought by the Central London News 'against the comic paper, Judy, was dismissed by the Judge, on^the ground that the alleged liberwas fair criticism on tLe way the agency conducted its business, and that if the. suit succeeded, the freedom of the Press might be seriously injured. A meeting will shortly take place between +he Emperors of Austria, Germany and Russia. The remains of De Long, of the Jeanette Artie exploring party, reached Irkutsk on December 21. being escorted by a military guard. i 1 hey will be taken to America. The disputes between Spain and France, as to King Alfonso's treatment m Paris have been satisfactorily settled. The Crown Prince of Germany during his visit to Madrid gara 24,000 piastres to the Palace ser« vant3, and 50,000 to military asylums. At the opening of the Spanish Cortes, the Koyal speech announced an extension of suffrage to all who can read and write and who pay taxes. A hurricane m the province pf Aliense, Spain, on December J2th, uprooted 3300 olive trees, demolished the quay at Deruca, m Vale' icia, inundated the town, and wrecked 14 vessels. Captain Robert Dickenson, Irisb politician and ' refuge, died m Belgium. The Canton of Valaise, Switzerland; has restored the death penalty for murder. Bfonsignore Savarez, the Pope's domestic^uvejatej Has left the Boman Catholic Church, and been received into t;W rfyiscopal Church by' Df tfevin, of : St Paul's Ameridan Church. V • ! : . " ' '; :.".:. At an interview between .fhe Pope and the American Catholic 3ishop, the former expressed hopes that h©

might live to see the Greek and Latin Churches united. Several people were crushed to death m Moscow on December 10th, owing to the presure of an immense crowd assembled -to receive a gratuity usually given at the demise of wealthy persons. The assemblage was at the house of a rich merchant. ! Depression m the iron trade of America continues. Manufacturers m Pennsylvania are generally shutting down. Twelve thousand coal miners are out of employment. A statue of M- Gladstone was un* veiled at the* Liberal Club room, •London; "by JBarlGranville, who de«» livered a strong personal eulogium on the Premier. ■..'■■. , ?.i The Italian Steamship Company re (■ used the dues of steamers to the French Govern mentf or their.Tonqum services. At the funeral of Mario a wreath from Queen Victoria was placed on the coffin.