FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 19, 21 July 1883, Page 2

FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

, Per Mail Steamer. * : — ♦- — ■■— : .-■''■ [PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] •Auckland. Tins Par. The' latest news from the foreign offices in regard to the Tonquin difficultly is that China has resolved'to'prepare for the eventuality of * war : while carrying on negotations with 'France 'to gain time. . . ; '.'*' :^" The tribes' in revolt near Bagnad; had a battle with the Turkish troops, -on June 28th, in which 250 men were killed. Lynch, alias Norman the informer, who testi Bed against the dynamite conspirators was realeased from custody because of his services to (he Government. ■'•■ The Duke of Connaught opened the Irish Hall Exhibition in the Mansion House. Mr Labouchere recently challenged Irving Bishop, the ''Thought Reader," to tell the number of a bank-note known only to the challenger and Firth, MJP., the latter to hold the" note. Mr . Labouchereputup £1,000 against £100, the winner to devote the money to charities. Bishop guessed the number of the. note at once, and demanded the money. ' With money won at the Ascot races the Prince of Wales paid off several of his old debts. He is in consequence rerj popular just now. A despatch from London, June 17, says Her Majesty's health continues to cause grave anxiety. Since she has been at Balmoral she has done little but make excursions to John Brown's grave. She has put nil the servants in deep mourning and spends most of her time in a state of tiie deepest degression." The loss of 'her faitiiful servant hus boon a moi"e serious blow lo her than was v supposed to be j;o.-.siltle. Bern-ird Mac Hugh has been arrested on n ohnrce oF complicity in the murder of ./usticu Young who was shot some "five years ago. A report is current in Dublin that the (.TOT.-rnment will eventually send Carey to Canada. A cable despatch says that he has been offered the alternative of scfe conduct to New South Wales, or ran the risk of remaining in Ireland without guard. ' A desperate attempt was made on the 28th, in a railway carriage between Calais and Pariii, to murder and rob the Her. Mr Wlntehorn, an Eriglisli clergyman. The murderer attacked Mr "Whiteh'oen with a chisel, stabbing him five times. The assailant, an Englishman, .was captured. Correspondents o£ the London Press report in Switzerland serious .] , ■ .riots against the Jews had occurred in St. Gall. On June 23 a number of Jewish had been pillaged and the police were stoned while endeavoring to stop excesses. The soldiers were called out to quell the disturbance. The Rev. B. Jenkins, of Mansfield, Lousitana, had good reason to believe that the Rev Dane Booden, President of Mansfield College, has seduced a young lady friend ot his, and shot Booden on the night of June 16, putting six bullets in his body. Both were ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Lurch. The Queen of Madagascar gave strict orders not to retnrn the fire of the French She recalled most of her tvoops io the capital, and only 200 remained at Tamatave to maintain order. It will take, the French at least five months to march to the capi tal and there is sufficient food there for a siege of several months. 'The Hava s ha ve at the capital 6000 disciplined troops, most of whom are .'armed with Remington rifles, \.and the nation 'will fijjhl to the bitter end.V • • " i! :; '-f"