FRISCO MAIL NEWS. (Per Mail Steamer.)

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 33, 21 August 1883, Page 3

FRISCO MAIL NEWS. (Per Mail Steamer.)

| [PEE USITED PEEBS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, August 20. A national meeting was held at Belfast to celebrate the declaration of American independence. Messrs Sexton, Bigaar, and Sullivan sent letters of regret at ll.eir absence. The Rev. Mr Bynell has denounced the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (Earl Spencer), whose name he said was more detested by English people than that of Carey. The Parnell fund reached £17,065 on July 4th. At Sligo assizes two parties were found guilty of conspiracy to murder in attempting to blow up Weston House, Galway, on 19th March last. If they had destroyed the House and killed the inmates they were to receive £500. and failing to take life were to receive £300. iive pounds of dynamite were exploded on the window Bill, but little damage was done, owing to a conspicuous lack of skill. Dennis Field, foreman of the jury wkich convicted Haynes of murder, and who was afterwards stabbed, is in constant receipt to letters threatening him with injury, and his wife and children are often insulted in the streets of Dublin. James McDermott, Brooklyn newspaper man, and Bepubhcan politictan, was shot in the head on the 22nd July by James Gaynor, who said, as he raised his revolver, " McDermott, you traitor, I've followed you 3000 miles to kill you, and I'll do it now." It is asserted that M cDermott was shot by order of the Fenian brotherhood. The death of Captain Maitland Webb took place on the afternoon of Tuesday, the 24th July. He was rowed in a skiff to a point in the river by John Mc<'lay, tke ferryman at the Falls, and leaped from the boat at two minutes past 4 o'clock. The daring swimmer passed by the rapids all right, keeping in the middle of the stream, when he struck the whirlpool. He was rushed to the American side, where the .waves, it is estimated, are from thirty to torty feet high. The last seen of him he was throwing np one arm. His shoot of the rapids was extremely thrilling. The refusal of the railroads and hotels to have anything to do with " going to his death" rendered the affair financially a failure. Webb leaves a wife and child in England.