FRISCO MAIL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 31, 26 August 1884, Page 2

FRISCO MAIL NEWS

(PEE UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, August 26. The City o£ Sydney arrived at Auckland on Sunday at 1.30 p.m. from San Franciseo, which place she left on the , 2nd August. The passage was uaeventful. The passengers for Auckland were — Messrs Dean, England, JiVeech, Twogood, Kiugham, Boodle. Bedford, Peake, Thompson. Storms. pareen. n Gracig. anH Mesdames Harper and Two?ood, and 13 - steerage- There were 24 cabin ( -*ns^4lt \ steerage passengers for S/dney. ' • ' " ■ -general sirsrwriET" "^ The European summary dates to the Ist of August. The ohtagfous Diseases Bill' paisett its third reading in the House of LoWs on the Ist August. ' It was reported from Cardiff on the Ist August .that -a man had'dfed of cnolei^t on the steamer Grarille, from Marseilles, at anchor in Fenarth i Roads. The body was thrown overboard, and another case was on board the vessel at that date. Charles Money Penny, linen manufacturer, Belfast, was found on the night of the 25th July in the carriage of the night train between Paris and Brussels with, his brains blown out. He is supposed to have teen murdered. In the annual conference of the ConservativeNational Union, held at Sheffield on the 23rd July, a thousand delegates, were present. Lord Churchill presided supported by the Duke of Norfolk and others. The Marquis of Salisbury Was conspicuous by his absence. The son of the British Vice-Consul aft Rodisto has been captured by brigands, who demand £1000 ransom. The deerstalkers, gillies, and labourers on the estate of the American millionaire Winnans, near Inverness, Scotland, engaged in a terrible fight, whpn . a gUKf 9 named Campbell-, was killed; A labourer named Magillary Campbell . ha* been arrested. Dr Caesar Henry Hawkins, Surgeon to the Queen, is dead. A great fire has taken place at Wapping Crane \yharf, resulting in y* loss of £500,000. ■"■ ■ ": .' /■? Lord Bandolph Churchill proposes to take an American tour during "the recess of Parliament. ' . ! •-; The condition of the Thames, in vieir of the cholera in France, > excites alarm in London, for the sewerage, though dis* charged far below the city, Washes up past the Houses of Parliament. A deputation, introduced by t,he Marquis of Lome, recently waited on Lord Carlingford in favour of the importation of healthy cattle from the Western States of Amerioa through Canada. They urged that the farmers of England want American cattle, and that the laws of the States from which the cattle would come are sufficiently strict to prevent the spreading of the disease. ■ ■ It was reported ov the Ist August that Grand Duke Louis of Hesse will abdicate in favour of his son Ernest; under the advice of the Emperor of ' Germany. His morganatic marriage with Madame Goldennine, and his subsequent divorce compromised his position. Two robberies at Windsor Castle hare created some talk, but particular* are not given. Clark; who is Brown's sue. cessor in attendance ■on the Queen/ was a victim of one ol them. — — Great precautions- were taken at 'Warwick on the 29th July to fneekerre order during the trial of Dalyi '" Eg*n, .and McDonnell, the suspected dynamiter*. Strong barrier^ were erected to protect the approach to and from Ike court, ajid constables armed with revolvers ' were placed on guard at all the public: buildings. McDonnell pleaded; guilty 46 the charge of treason- felony, where : upon4he other charges against ' "him ' where withrawn. Daly and Egan pleaded guilty. '•'.'" 'S'.\ ." '