'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 20, 23 August 1882, Page 3

'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

[by telkgbaph.] Auckland, August 21. On July 17 the Salvation Army misfm> sionaries about to proceed to Aus.rdm were presented with colours. A Utter farom the Qneen expressed satisfaction at the work done by the army. It i» now positively announced that the coronation of the Czar will take place at the end of Augast. We may soon expect (says the St. Petersburg despatch to the New York Herald) grave events in .Russia ; for. at the sound of the first revolutionary cannon that is fired, Germany, without any preliminary form whatever, will. occupy the Baltic provinces, and then annex them. Fanny Parnell, sister of Mr Parnell, Home Rule leader, died at Cordintown, New Jersey, on the 20th, froiu paralysis of the heart. A large delegation of the Land Leaguers attended the funeral. The remains will be removed to Ireland. A slight F'-nian scare was felt at Windsor Castle on the 2:3 rd, when all the keys Of the most important- locks were found missing. Over 800 (sir) new locks for the centre building were immediately ordered. Colonel Bracken, director of the crimin:il investigation of Ireland, has resigned. He liad a difference, it is said, with the Lord-Lieutenant, who did not agree with him in allowing the police to join secret societies in order to become informers. A shock of earthquake lasting four minutes thirty-six seconds was felt in the city of Mexico on the 27th May. Walla in all parts of the city fell. The national and municipal pal ces, chapel and cathedral were injured. One lady was hurt, but nobody killed. It was the severest shock since 1864. It is now said that the bouquet which Mrs Scoville endeavored to convey .to Guiteau the day preceding bis execution contained arsenic enough to kill a dozen men. A plot to assassinate Cardinal McCabe was discovered. In the rioting between the English, Welsh, and Irish, at Iredegar, W'aTes, - many houses of the Irish peopie 'wetfe wrecked. >■ The weather threatens utter dc-struc* tion of what promised to be the finest harvest ever reaped in Ireland. C. Muller, one of the largest' iron and steel merchants of vliddlesborougli, has failed for £150,000. France is putting her navy on a war footing. . ■. '■ ■ '• Mrs Abraham Lincoln, widow of the . ex-President, died at Springfield, Illinois, from paralysis. British "harvest prospect* ar« pro.nounced better than was at first "supposed. Everything now depends on the ; weather. ' , -