'FRISCO MAIL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 43, 15 November 1882, Page 3

'FRISCO MAIL NEWS

(PEG CXITED PKESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, This Day. M. De Lesseps claims that his company possess for 99 years the exclusive right to martime communication between the Gulf of Pelusiusui and the Bay of Suez. The Times doubts this right. Stanley, the African explorer, returned to London on the 16th October. He considers the work he undertook on the Congo for the King of the Belgians practically finished, and will not return to Africa for the present. A belief is current among Mr GladStone's friends that he intends absolutely to retire to private life after the autumn session. The Marquis of Hartington is regarded as the coming Premier. Owing to the alarming increase of pauperism in the South of IreLmd the Dublin union has taken to the lead in a proposal to send one thousand able bodied men and women to Canada at a cost of £7000. In the inquiry held on October 12th into the murder of the process-servers, the Huddys, near Lough Mask a farmer named Kergan and his wife testified that the elder Huddy was stunned with a stone as he was serving a paper, and he was then kicked, while an assassin from a cover fired into his body, killing him. The younger Huddy's head was then dashed against a heap of stones, and he was afterwards shot m the presence of a crowd of villagers. Miss Marie Prescott, the well-known actress, who recently sued President Tonsey, of the American News Company of New York, for circulating a dramatic paper containing a libel against her character, received 12,500 dollars damage. A street fight in Knoxville Tennessee on the Bth October, terminated fatally the feud between Mai tens and Major Tom O'Connor by the death of three of the parties concerned. O'Connor was the wealthiest man in the States being worth 10,000,000 dollars. Three members of the Salvation Army were arrested in Calcutta, in order to prevent a street riot.