'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1804, 2 April 1888, Page 3

'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

(Per R M.S. AiamedtO

London, March 8. Tho Admiralty issurd on February 28t to oommandcra of Hotna rquadrons fu c instructions r .•g-trdin;* their positions it j defense m time of war, including the mod of maiming, visiuxlliug, and ca'.lngthei ? nhip", and method cjt communication. 1 s ia reported that tho plan will be trie 3 early m spring. Tta In*ltuction<i apply t 1- the squadrons at Portsmouth, FTolyhoad s Qjoenstovrn, Sboerneas, Hull, Lelth, an s Olydo, The Channel squadron alao to " cetved iDßtructions, but Itß position 1 kept secaet, 1 Mrs Inrgtry, the ectr.ag, now fn Nov York, ia reported to be Berloußly ill fron ceuralgis and heart disease, Ths execution of the sentence of deatf pronouncad by the State Court of Mis soari, on Maxwell (alms Brooko), th< murderer of Preller, haa again boaj stayed. A petition is now before th( United States Supreme Court. A bill was introduced m Congress on February 2Obh providing for the payment to the Oceanic Steamship Company oi 60,000d01s for services rendered m carrying mails between San Franolaoo and Honolula, Auckland, Sydney, and other ports m the Pacific Ocean. Several Alpine villages wera destroyed by an avalanche on February 29th, and many lives were lost. Io Ilia valley of Nonebblo, Switzerland, a great number of houses were overwhelmed. Ten persons were killed, and many oattle ware destroyed. Many villages near the lake of Oomo Buffered from want of food. Oommonioation having been obstructed troops were despatched to aid the sufferers, and the soldiers cut a way through to relieve them. The Custom House near Revere was entirely overwhelmed, and three guards and four other persons were killed. A despatoh from Rome dated Maroh 4th aaya that over 200 bodies of the viotims to these disasters have been recovered. The Hospice of St Bernard was burled on Mutch 6th, but there was no loaa of life. A 'collection of Emm Pasha's letters and geographical records from Africa, which have been translated into English and edited under auspices of Dr Teldir and Dr Sohwolnfurth, was published on March 2nd. The book, though dealing with events which are several years old, and not bearing direotly on Emm's position at Wadetl, is not without special interest ia connection with the relief expedition of Stanley. In the meantime Stanley's friends are becoming exceedingly nervous owing to the prolonged absence of news from the explorer or hia party. There is a great deal of talk at tbe Balgiap capital of despatching another expedition by the Congo route. A terrible cyclone visited Mount Vernon, Illinois, on February 19th, resulting m the killing of thirty persons, tho woandlag of 200 others, and tha almost total destruction of the town. Fireo broko out m the ruins, and the wounded wero burned alive. No less than 500,000 dollars worth of property waß destroyed by iha cyolono and fire. Rum shops were started amid the rama, but people, becoming disgusted at ao many Intoxicated men lying about the streets, compelled tho ownera to close them up. A father and son, farmers near Fargo, Dacotah Territory, were eaten np by a pack of sixteen wolves, on Maroh 6th, la eight of the wife and mother looking throngh a window of the farm house. The men hid gone out with shovels to olear tno snow from the haystacks not more than fiftoon or twenty rods distance when they were attacked and devoured. Justin McCarthy has declin3d to beenmo Deputy Speaker of the House of Doramons, giving as a reason that ho ia uear-sighted. Tho Nowfo&ndland fisheries have beoomo the Bubjeot of negotiation between England and France. Mr Stanhopo, Secretary of State for War, on March Ist isaued a memo, relative to the Army Estimates, stating fhat detiolpnoas psi?t In tho def^ncca of Portsmouth and tbe Thames which render England's position dangerously inseoure, Mr Stanhope proposes that aotive meaßnres should be immediately taken by Parliament m order to remedy this weakness. A great number of documents have been discovered m a hidden chamber m the Stratfbrd-on-Avon Guildhall, and they will be examined with the hope of scouring some new light concerning the life of Shakespeare, Lord Hamilton, First Lord of the Admirality, has issued a statement m regard to the navy estimates for 1888, the net decrease m shown to be £915,fi81, inoluding the special coat of Australian squadron £900,000. During 1887 twenty torpedo boats were added, making a total of eighty of the first-class and sixty-three of the second-class. Daring the coming year six- firet-olasa and ten second-class torpedo boats will be ordered. On March 3rd Mr Gladstone returned thanka to 150 clergy of tho Church of England for a memorial drawn up by them m favor of Home Rule, and said he believed it would have the efhot of greatly widening the growing conviction that neither honor nor advantage can be gained by the oontlnued refusal to accept the moderate and constitutionally expressed demand of the Iriah people. Mr Bilfour hag declared the statement that orders were issued from Dublin Oaßtlo to Magistrates trying Irish oaaes to be an infamous libel. Sir H. Burke has granted 25 per cent reduction to his tenants, and' Me Carlou, M.P. V 57 per cant. The evictions of tenants on Poriaonby estate at Coaghlan were resumed on February 2nd. Father Koenan and eighty farmers were convicted on February 3fd. and sentenced to two months' imprlaooruont for attending a meeting of a suppressed branch of the National League at Newmaiket, County Clare. Me Jan, O. Flynn, M.P for North Cork, was also sentenced to Kanturk Gaol for throe weeks, without hard labor, for Inciting to conspiracy. Tho Dublin " Expresn " of March 3rd affirms there are Internal dissensions m the Parnellite ranks, which will produoo a rapture that will ehake the foundations of the National Loßguo.