FRISCO MAIL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 91, 15 January 1885, Page 2

FRISCO MAIL NEWS

]_YE& UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Auckland, This Day. A London paper of the 18th December suggests, by way of reprisal for the insult to England in a German book, that all grants of pensions be withdrawn from families ot German extraction, which includes the Queen and a large number of her relatives and millions would thus be saved to be devoted to the improvement of the British Navy, in view, of the prospect that ifc may become necessary some day to administer a salutary thrashing to Germany. Au effort is to be made in America to raise 10,000 dollars a year to pay the Irish Rationalist members of the English Parliament. Another aggressive religious organisation, similar to the Salvation Army, and called the Pacific Coast Holiness Association, has been ; started in San Francisco;, The Adelphi Theatre has been leased for a meeting place. They claim purity of life and conduct. ' It was reported on December 7th that smallpox was on the increase in London. The hospitals were crowded with patients. In Leicester there was a serious outbreak, caused by the members of the AntiVaccination Society defying the law which makes vaccination compulsory. After a fire in the parcel office of t'ue Windsor railway station was extinguished, on December 21, brass clock wneels of American manufacture and a bottle containing suspicious material explosives were found among the ruins. The room adjoined a covered way over which the Queen passed on Wednesday proceeding, when she started for Osborne. The managers of the Great Western assert that the fire was purely accidental, and not due to any foreign agency. 'Ihe3 r also say tlie ill smelling liquid in the bottle was simply horse medicine. Vanderbilt, the millionaire, filed a judgment against ex-Piw-ident Grant on tlie Bth December for xoo.OOO dollars. Grant is nearly reduced to penury, and President Arthur recommends that he be pensioned by tlie Government. According to a despatch from London, of December 22, Lady Archibald Campbell proposes to embrace the stage as a profession.