FRISCO MAIL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 68, 18 November 1884, Page 2

FRISCO MAIL NEWS

«. _ [per united pre***) association.! London, October 24. Mr Gladston* wrote a ' long letter to the St. Asaph Diocesan Conference on • October 23rd ou the subject of the disestablishment of the Church of England. In it he counsels churchmen to be , tolerant of each, other's views, anj_ conduct their controversies charity, moderation, mildness, and reserve. The Titchborne cla i mattt -was _ee_W!y LL ' brought to Pentonville prison on the night of October "iOth. He wkif dia^- r charged ttext morning, quite unexpectedly to himself as his tim~e~_uyT -"»W three days to ran. At Scotland Yard the claimant received a ticket of . leave 7 . requiring him to report monthly by .effer >" to the authorities. He appeared to ife in good health, and -will remain quiet : '4oi x the present, keeping his residence secret.,! i Wheat reached the lowest price in the London market on October I9tfi ''since the American Civil War. _; / ' ?; '"' The distress at the shipbuilding Centres " J of the North, is rapidly increasing. Trade on the Tyae and adjacent disfxi-y .., is paralysed. Forty ocean; steiyners- „£j;e lying idle in the _ocks_.a- Sunderland, and most of the shipyards are -closed. Public subscriptions are making for > labourers out of employment. A society at Home for female- inebriates has been established in London. A despatch on October the 12th says it is now known that the English hop crop will amount to 415,000 cwfc> which is considerably below th. average yield, but the quality i.s better than for years. The Continental crop is an average one, but the quality is not so fine. The whole world's crop is said to be above the annual consumption. The Queen on the 14th requested Mr Gladstone to submit to the Cabinet for. their consideration the question as to ' whether special powers cannot be . conferred upon the Prince of Wales to enable, him to participate in the conference of the Sovereigns of Europe at Paris. Tbe Memorial Diplomatique is respobsible "> for this item. A fund is being- raised in England tb enable Henry George to continue his agitation in favour of land nationalisa- ' lion, but subscriptions are coming in slowly. Mr Trevelyan, late Chief- Secretary for Ireland, is now accompanied everywhere by a dfftectire. The weekly papers exult over Trevelyan's resignation. "! yy y;