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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 20, 28 July 1885, Page 2

San Francisco Mail Items

• London, July 3. At the interview with Lord Salisbury, the Queen was very positive in her demands that the agreement in process of negotiation between Lord Granville and De Giers, regarding the Afghan frontier question, should be completed, in order that peace might de preserved. On the 27th tilt. Balfour made an address which attracted profound attention, from the faot that he expressed a not less pronounced wish than Chamberlain to see Ireland governed by eqtaul laws with England and to see all exceptional legislation against the Irish people for ever abolished. | The French Government have withdrawn their demand for a fixed date on which the English troops shall evaouate Egypt, and offered to leave tiie period to the discretion of the English Government, if Lord Salisbury will admit the principle of evacuation. M. Waddington . also made conciliatory overtures regard- J ing the question of the control of the j Suez Canal. This change of attitude on the part of the French Government is attributed to an entente cordiale between Lord Salisbury and Prince Bismarck. One thousand Persians are at work eonßtruciing the Trans-Caspian railway. Warlike preparations are still being continued by Russians. It is rumoured in the bazaars that war will probably occur after this railway is completed to Merv. York and North Dalston, Yorkshire, were shaken up by earthquake on the afternoon of June 18th. The shook was rather severe at the place last named. The Queen nat offered a dukedom- to Earl Spencer. Sir Peter Lumsden was entertained at dinner at Windsor Castle on July 22nd I by the Queen. r Sir E. A. Bom ass dismfssed fifty Irak detectives, imported by Sir William Har« court for the protection of himself And colleagues. The Pacific Mail steamship City of Tokio, en route between San Francisco and Japan, was totally wrecked em June 28th on a reef near Yokohama. Moore, special correspondent of the Australian Sportsman, has none East, and states that he has been authorised by Peebles, backer of Beach, to match the Sydney sculler against any American oarsman for from £600 to £10,000. Cholera is raging furiously in four Spanish provinces. The Government Cholera Commision, and alto many native and foreign doctors, declare the cholera to be Asiatic, and of a violent and rapid character, attacking, all classes of eoeiViy. Business is completely at a standstill, and in Muroia labouring people are dropping dead of hunger A terrible storm raged in Newfound land on the 7th Jane. An en vinous amount of shipping was destroyed, and many lives lost, it being the worst storm for 40 yean. The steamer Italia has foundered off the coast of Peru. Out of 134 passengers and crew, 65 were drowned. The disaster was due to wrong orders given by the third officer, who committed inicide after the wreck. Deteotire Hoffey captured 8. Green, alia* Spoondi, a forger and fugitive from Australia, at Wilmington, California. Green defrauded the Waltbam Watch Company at Sydney of £669. Papers for extradition arrived before the barque Estelle from Newcastle, by which Green was a passenger, reached California. The fugitive was arrested immediately he landed. When being conveyed to San Francisco he attempted suicide by •tabbing himself in the neck with a penknife. The wound was not dangerous. Hanlan has arranged for five races between himself and Teemer, the first to be rowed in August. Reports from the Panama Canal state tfat Belgium furnishes the most machine c, y The labourers are largely composed of Jamaica negroes, between 15,000 and 20,000 being employed on the canal. Strong " opinion is expressed that De Lessep's. expectations that the canal be finished in 1890 cannot ba realised.