FRISCO-MAIL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 17, 12 February 1884, Page 3

FRISCO- MAIL NEWS

(»m xjnitkd pbess association.) Auckland, Feb. 11. j^pnly about half the English mail arrived by the Zcalandia. Tbe otlier ' portion was placed on Iraard the Celtic, which broke down. The mail- was theu transferred to the Germanic, which broke ■ her shaft and had not arrived when the Zealandia left San Francisco. , The reformatory ship Clarence was burned in the river Mersey on January 16th. .All hands were saved. Mail advices have been received in London from China. Several Chinese bankers committed suicide, owing to the unsettled political situation and the - deplorable stale of the money market. Miss Hogarth, the surviving executrix of Charles Dickens, has taken steps to prevent the pnblicaiion in England of the novelist's letters to his solicitor, on the ground that they were never intended for the public. Mr Gladstone has issued a circular to the Liberal members of tiie House of Commons, requesting their attendance at ' the opening of Parliament on February 6th, as' it is the desire of the Government to submit at as early a date as possible proposals of much interest and importance. A sensation has been caused by a bequest of £500,000 made by a wealthy London lady to Pope Leo XfTI. Rumours of Fenian plots are heard in London on every hand. Cablegrams dated January 13th say:— "How or where theyoriginate cannot he ascertained but it is certain that more than the usual credence is given to the latest ones. Bedonbled vigilance \* now being exercised at Windsor Castle, and similar-care taken ' at tlie' homo of Mr Gladstone. The Government buildings,, are all guarded very closely.'* ' Tne,Catholics of England have completed 'arrangements for the erection of a Cathedral in L Westminster at a cost of over £5(K),000.< It will be erected within a stone's throw of the Victoria station. Gilbert and Sullivan's new opera, 44 Princess Ida," was produced in London on January sih. It was an instantaneous success. A portion of the Irklsje on the railway between Wigan -and Preston collapsed in January,!' killing seven workmen and injuring many others.., Baiiiff Denis, while returning from the Tollomoi;e/Land Court, on January 9lh, ' was fatall.v.sbot by an unknown person. Mrsfizrej, the informer's widow, declines to leave. .Great Britain, and asks for safe em ploy me n t •*■ t Home.