'FRISCO MAIL NEWS
. — ♦ — : (Per mail steamer at Auckland.) ..(pbb unixbd mess association.) !„.""' AipcKtiND, This Day. BradlaUgh, while lecturing at Bridgewater on March 14 against perpetual pensions, was pelted with rotten eggs, 'fruit, and fireworks. ■ The London Communists were to have net on Sunday. 15 th March, at the grave of Kare Maix, the Socialist. The police, however, closed the cemetery jgates and' prevented the meeting. The defence in the action against Crarmoytefdr breach of promise, brought bjr. Miss 1 ortcscue, has been delivered io the court. He admits the contract and. the breach of it, and leaves the jury to assess damages, but submits that .£30,000 is. too much. The World and Truth have been -criticising Her Majesty with the utmost freedom. ; The first charges her with -dragooning her household into providing presents for the Princess Victoria on her approaching marriage .with Prince Louis of Battenburg; _nd the second, says she is delaying tlie appearance of Princess Alice's letters till another edition of he** own sjourna' has been sold. j Two members of the firm of Parkes, solicitors, in Bedford Row, London, absconded on March sth, having misappropriated .clients' title deeds. The liabilities are . between L1,000,000 and L_.poojpoo.. A' terrible explosion occurred in a coal smoe.at Pocahontas. Virginia, from fire clamp. .The mine -was c-inpletely wrecked, and ISO miners killed.
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 41, 8 April 1884, Page 3
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