Frisco Mail News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 125, 7 April 1885, Page 2

Frisco Mail News.

Earl Durham's suit of divorce on the grounds of insaaity was dismissed with costs against Durham. Sir James Hamnen m reading his decision, said respondent loved another, and censured the family for arranging a marriage with his Lordship. The English Government have invested £20.000 for the benefit of Gordon's family, A strike of 55,000 English misers against a reduction of wages was threatened. A breach of promise suit, Lady Claude Scott against Captain Spiler, of the Life Guards, was settled for £33,000. As the result of the conference with. the agents of the colonies at the War Office Government will rely upon receiving contingents from Canada, Australia and New Zealand. London society was exercised on the 6th March over the suicide of a young Englishman, recently married, who had lost £55.000 by gambling at Monaco. The Swedish steamer Norden was run into by the English steimer Cum* berlaad, near Cnzhaven, on tho 27th and sank. Twenty-one persons on thw JN'orde* perished. The Gordon National Memorial Fund has reached £10,000. Rothschild and Baring each contributed £2500. The ex-Empress Eugene and the Dae de Bassano were thrown out of their curriage, while riding at Flamborough, aud badly injured. A supplementary estimate provides an increase of 3000 men in the military service, and shows the expenses of tho Soudan campaign to the end of March to be £3.330,0< X). The famous cathedral in Glasgow, which lacks but twt> years of being seven centuries old, was on fire on the Bt.li March, nnd for a time there was much excitement, but the flames were extinguished with but little damage. The Lord Mayor of Dublin wux hissed and groaned at the railway station in that city. Ten thousand persous look part in the procession, in addition to twenty thousand who occupied the quafs. Two dynamite en rtridge.s were exploded in a Protestant Church in Glenliven. near Stranolar, in Donegal, on tho 3rd March, anri «ercr«l square feet of masonry destroyed. B*»rcral raoro cartri.lgcs were found in the vicinity. A tremendous fight occurred between soldiers an-. I civilians at Waterford on the 7th March. The former, a detachment <*f i!»'- Kuynl irUh iteKiment, numbormg l"0. were waiting to embark for Portsmouth, *n rouie for India, and were allowed by their officers to break the rank* and enjoy tlietnselres. They d:d so by getting drunk and insulting all the residents, and kissing all. the women they met on the street. All business was susi eided, and the police aided by the citizens, attacked the soldiers, who beat off the charge with their fists and the buckles of their belts, which they used like slingshots. Many were seriously wounded. A gang of rowd'ea took part wi h tlie soldiers agtttast the police, and the atter were stoned, kicked, and clubbed until they were forced to take refuge n ho Custom House.