NEWS BY THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1569, 27 May 1887, Page 2

NEWS BY THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

The Maraposa with the San Francisoo mail arrived at Auoklaud yesterday. -She brings the folio wine; budget of news:—

GENERAL SUMMARY,

Fxtenslva pension frauds hare been' < tinezrthed m London. The names of officers who had retired m 1814 and 1820. and of ladle* who had pensions granted them seventy or eighty yenra ago are on the list.

Helen de Rothschild, only daughter of the late Baron Solomon of Paris, Is about be married to Captain Van Swoeier, a young officer m the Belgian army, muoh to th>- indignation of her family. The lady I as a dot of £6,000,C00, The Hounalow gunpowder mills at Houdslow Heath were destroyed by an explosion on M»y 3rd. It ooourred m the milling room. One man was killed, and much carnage was done to property la the vioinlty.

Mr Gladstone m a letter written da May 3rd, excusing his non-attendance at an anti-vaccination meating In London, said he was engaged m opposing the compulsory Inoculation of the whole Bfltiah nation with the Coeroion Bill.

The " Mark Lane Express," of April 30th, says that indications point to ».. late and poor wheat crop Id England, On April 22nd a free fight occurred at a meating of the Ladles' Liberal Aaeooia* tion, Kensington, m which the furniture of the hall was smashed and pieces used qb weapons, Many persons were Injured, Including two members of the House of Ccmmons. Th© iadieu preaent, anioDg whom was Mra Auhloa DUke, made thew way to a side h»U, whenoe they witnesied the row.

The Germans are training nnstiff* to hunt French outprata m the caee of war, and also falcons and other birda of prey to ohaie oarrier pigeons. Customs offioera throughout Great Britain and Ireland have reoeived stringent orders to eearoh all vessels arriving from America, China and the Bast, the Government having been warned that explosives have been sent from San Fran* ciflco to ports In the East to be transhipped to England.