'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 67, 7 February 1883, Page 3

'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, Feb. 6. The Boaapartb ts held a banquet at Beauvois, the object of the meeting being to proclaim Prince Victor Napoleon President of the Republic. One hundred persons on an average are searched nightly in Dublin under the curfew clause of the Eepression Act. General Butler, the new Governor of Massachussetts, was threatened by letter with assassination by a man who signs himself Guiteau No. 2. Mrs Langtry is very outspoken in her indignation at the way in which she bas been annoyed by American reporters, especially those of Chicago. A detachment of soldiers, returning from foreign service, who lauded in Cork on December 31, were immediately attacked by a band of drunken civilians. The soldiers defended themselves with knives, and several of the assailants were cut. Lord Napier, of JVTagdala, has been appointed a Field Marshal. The Mayor of Wexford, proprietor of a local journal, was sentenced to five weeks' imprisonment for publishing a portion of a report of a meeting of the Land League calculated to cause intimidation. Dr Manin, a well-known writer on folitical economy, shot his wife and imself in London on December 27th. The murder and suicide were committed by mutual agreement. Manin was pecuniarily embarrassed, and his wife suffered from an incurable bodily ailment. The most tangible thing in Ireland (says the despatch of December 31st) is the distress and misery of the people in t*>e western districts, particularly in places where there are hundreds of evicted families without shelter, and who are starving. ' Information about these is derived chiefly from Catholic priests, whose own resources are all exhausted, and about whose dwellings these unfortunate creatures are gathering, crying piteously for a potato or a little corn meal. According to report, the wife of Sir Francis Edmond McNaughton, Dublin, eloped on the 27th December, with a young man, who had been acting as agent for the McCartney estate. Lady McNaughton has several children, and is the daughter of William Howard Russell, the well-known newspaper correspondent. Starvation is reported at Balinasloe. A husband and wife were found dead on the sth from this cause. Large numbers of farmers at Skibbereen, with holdings of from one to twenty acres, are absolutely without stock or food.