FRISCO MAIL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 53, 6 May 1884, Page 2

FRISCO MAIL NEWS

(Per lu.-iil steamer at Auckland.) [tub united pbess association.} Lojtdon. April 21. A London despatch ctf April the 10th says that the Dutch authorities have blockaded a portion of the Acheen, on the coast of Sumatra, with the new of exercising a pressure upon the Rajah of Lenogn, to force him to release the crew of the wrecked English steamer Nicero. Toronto Horace Falkins, having what he supposed sufficient proof that his wife was too intimate with Hackett, a street., car conductor, deliberately shot them both. i The steamship Daniel Stemmean, from Antwerp for Halifax, Novia Scottia* struck on the night of April 3rd off Sambo Heads, twenty miles from the port last named. She sunk almost lmrnedi- ■ ately. Ninety passengers were drowned, and thirty-three of the crew. Only six passengers were saved and six sailors. Sims Keeves, the English tenor, hopes to make a tour of the United States, and so triumphantly close his career, H.e declares that the cause of his frequent failures to 611 engagements was on account. of the gout flying to his throat, and calculates he has, during his career,. lost £80,000 from this cause. On April the 2nd Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Virginia, and South Carolina were visited by severe cyclones, and the whole of the villages blown out of existence. Mr Gladstone's family urge him to accept a peerage without delay, and retire from active duty. The Secretary of the London Cora Exchange reports, on April Bth, enormous stocks of wheat, barley, and maize m London ; 454,000 quarters more wheat, and 100,000 less oats than last year. Emigration from the neighborhood, of Quebec to the United States is alarming the provincial authorities. From one parish, Montgomery, 3200 left in one week, a large majority of whom nerer intend to return. Prince Androniccff and M. Leighesfei, overseer of the St. Petersburg powder mills, have been arrested as Nihilists. On April 3rd the Nihilists killed the police spy Petnokeff. The best foot race on record was made at the Athletic Bridge, on April 7, by W. G. George, the well-known amateur, who covered 10 miles in 51 minntes 20 seconds, eclipsing all records, even that of the famous Deerfoot, 51 minutes 21 seconds. Mr Gladstone made a powerful speech. in the House of Commons, on April 7, in support of the i/rauchise Bill. He said it was a good thing for the State that the largest number of capable citizeus should possess the franchise. He defended the extension of the franchise in Ireland as an act of right and justice. A verdict has been rendered in furor of Lady Colin Campbell in the suit again*t her husband tor divorce. Miss Mary Anderson, American actress, in London, has be>>n .sued for not playing on Saturday evening. April sth, the day oi Prince Leopol *s funeral. The real author of the libel, for which Yates was sentenced to gaol, is Lady Slradbroke, a relative of the Eail of Lonsdate. There was a very stormy scene at the annual meeting of the Cunard Company. No dividend was declared. It was stntcd on thp Ist April that the Emperor had consented to Bismarck's retirement from the Prussian Ministry. A special fr m Paris, April 7th, says the papers print a rumour that Adelina Patti is desirous of retiring from the stage, and has expressed a wish to return to her husband, the Marquis de Caux. The marquis, in a letter, denies thestorj. Messrs Ghislin, bankers of Chartress and Antwerp, failed on April 12, with liabilities 16,000,000 frances. The Council of the Society Authors formed itself into a legal corporation on sth April, called "The Incorporated Society of Authors*" It includes Matthew Arnold, R. D. Blackmore. Wilkie Collins, W. S. Gilbert, Lord Houghton rf Profrssor Huxley, Thomas Hughes, Cardinal Manning, Mrs Oliphant, G. Augustus Sala, Professor TyndalJ, and Professor Suley.