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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 32, 25 August 1885, Page 3

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had put out from Yarmouth on the morning of July 22nd, to rescue the crew of a brigautine, struck a rock and sunk. Eight of the occupants were drowned.

GENERAL SUMMARY.

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Auckland, August 22.

A Beautiful Paixting. — Mr G. G. Greea, of Wood bury, New Jersey, U.S.A., is presenting to druggists and ethers in this country some very fine pictures ia oil ot his magnificent house and grounds and laboratory at that place. Mr Green is the proprietor of Boschee's German Syrup and Green* August Flower, two very valuable medicines, •which are meeting with great faror, the first as a remedy for Pulmonary complaints, and the lat f er for Dyspepsia and disorders of the Liver. These preparations have attained an immense sale solely on their superior merits and are sola by all druggists throughout the world. The price is ihe same for eacli, 3s 6d per bottle, or sample bottles for 6d. The sample bottles enable sufferers to prove their value at a trifling cost.

(European dates to July 31).— The Standard on July 31st made a savage attack on Lord Randolph Churchill, Baying "If his pranks be encouraged much longer he will smash the Government and the Conservative party. We will not follow this overgrown school boy, who is without knowledge sufficient to fathom his own ground of statesmanship. Radical papers are abusing the Prince of Wales for going in for a racing stud, and refer to the many scandals which have recently been

exposed in connection with the English turf.

4^ General Booth made a grand parade

of tke Salvation Army in London on July the 27th. The object was to influence Parliament in view of the revelations made by the Pall Mall Gazette, to pass the proposed Criminal Amendment Act. The social ostracism of several well-known noblemen has followed the Gazette exposure. The Queen has personally written to Mrs Booth, wife of the Salvationist leader, conveyingthe strongest sympathy with their reform work.

A fearful wave of heat extended over the United Kingdom from July 24 to 28. In London the effects of the long spell of torrid weather were appalling, and every one was more or less affected. Children died by hundreds, scores of men were prostrated by sunstroke each day, and the roads were often blocked by horses falling dead. A new terror was added by the presence of hydrophobia. Indeed, the streets were absolutely unsafe owing to the number of mad dogs running at large, and many persous, who never carried weapons before bought revolvers. A movement has been started to organise a Burns' Club throughout the world, for the purpose of holding a centenial celebration in honor of the Scotch Bard at Kilmarnock next year. The Liberals are alarmed by the report of the doctors who have examined Mr Gladstone's throat, to the discovery of the failure of his voice. He is pronounced to be suffering from obstinate catarrh of the larynx, and entire rest is eujoiued. His pai tizans are afraid that he will not be able to take part in the election campaign.

A sensation was created in London fashionable circles on July the 22nd by a report of a fistic encounter between Lord Lonsdale and Sir George Chetwyn. The fight took place in a well-known resort in Rotten Row, and lasted ten minutes. A woman was at the bottom of it. The men were jealous of each other, as both were paying attentions te MrsLangtry, the actress. Mrs Langtry explained to the correspondent of the Sun that the men quarrelled because one of them possessed a portrait of her painted on china, which the other thought he ought not to keep, adding at the sametime that "their quarrels are nothing to me." The London Vanity Fair denounces in effect Lonsdale and Chetwynn as unworthy of toleration by gentlemen. The article calls them titled blackguards, and declares they are worse than navvies, and that their conduct is a disgrace to modern manners. It laments that in this instance the abolition of the code of duels which would have put the fighters on equal terms, and given hopes to the world of the riddance of one or both of them. Radical journals are making great capital out of the affair.

The New York Sun's London Special of July 31, says that the scandal involving Sir Charles Dilke has been settled, so far as the Courts and English Press are concerned. The settlement was completed to-day by the cashing of Sir Charles's cheque for £25,000 in favour of Crawford, the aggrieved husband. This puts it out of the power of the papers to mention the Right Honorable gentleman's name in connection with the subject without incurring heavy penalties for libel, and British moral sense is quietened because the sinner, although guilty of the awful crime of being found out, has paid handsomely for suppressing the truth, and thus shielding the sacred circle of society.

Russia has assented to the Egyptian loan. This action on the part of Russia is held to indicate a growth of friendly relations with England, and has caused a rise in all international stocks.

A man about 60 years of age was §rrested in London on the 24th for making threats against the life of Princess Beatrice. Within an hour after the marriage ceremony a tumultous crowd entered St. Mildred Church and stripped it of its decorations, the police remaining inactive.

The Mormon leaders have issued an address to the people of the United States jirotesting against prosecutions, which they declare are only worthy of the dark ages.

Teemer having failed to get a race on with Htuxlon, goes to Australia in sight weeks to row Beach. A lifeboat ewtfaining 15 men that