'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 6, 15 January 1884, Page 2

'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

■■♦... , :,, . . ..- -•- . (Per Mail Steanvr at Auckland.) The Australia leaving 'at date is the first departure under 'the re-arranged service. The City of .New York steamer has been withdrawn and will be placed in: the China trade. ■ ■ \' ; ■■ A twenty years' lawsuit entfed in Saa Francisco on December the l^th, by a pioneer of California and a millionaire, Charles' McLaughlin, being! assassinated in his office by a railway contractor, Frome Cox, who had grown desperate by his protracted legal difficulties with MeLaughlin. Cox originally advanced money to the deceased to build a railway between San Jose and San Francisco. The British and. Chinese ila^s wem publicly burnt by an assemblage ef Irishman in San .Franc_iseo.qn Sunday, December 9th. The cremation was preceded by a resolution of ., sympathy for O'Donnell. > . . . .- Mr Wilson, curate of St. George's Cathedral, Kingston, Ontario* has beea dismissed for attending a Salvation Army meeting. .. ... , The executrix of DowagerlidrLjtton threatens : to publish '-ArftSj letters ef the late lord unless his son will do justice to the memory of nil mother. The refusal of Mr Gosehen to accept . the Speak ership of the House of Command is said to be the result of his aspiration to succeed the Marquis of Kipon as Viceroy of India. ' - Violent gales occurred throughout Great Britain on December l^t'», much damage being done in England and - the prorinces. :,, Cjoret, a Lyons Anarchist, concerned in the explosion of the: theatre there, has been sentenced to death. , ... Bosa Bonheur is dangerously ill at Fontainblesu. '■•'» Tremendous floods in the Scheldt did great damage. - ' , ] <sf Badinguet, who helped Nap6leon lit' to escape from the, fortress of flam, died in Paris lately. Maderfell, Governor- -of- Alsace and Lorraine, issued an order abolishiig the use of the French language in debate. Sarah Bernardt has assaulted Marie Colonvier, an actress who aceompaniqftfc her to America, for publishing a satirical biography of her under* the title "Sarah Bernhaum." , . The remains of De Long, of; the Jeanette, Arctic exploring party, reached Irkutsk on December 21, being escorted by a military guard. They w^l} betaken to America. • ' The disputes between Spam and France, as to King Alfonso's treatment in Paris, have been satisfactorily settled:. Beveral people were crushed to death in Moscow on December^ JOth, owing to the presence of an immense crowd assembled to receive a gratuity unuslly jciVea at the. demise of: JwAiUay pertoas: The assemblage was at the house of a nek merchant. _ ' .■