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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 91, 12 January 1886, Page 3

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Auckland, January 9. Mr William H. Vanderbilt, of New York, died. suddenly of paralysis of the brain at his mansion, New York, on the night of December Bth. His total iacome per annum is stated at 15,000-000 dollars. The money and stock market will not be effected by his death. . The authorities of New York are taking notice of the fact that desperate boxing matches are the rule tiow among the young aristocracy of that place. There was a set to at the rooms of the Athletic Club, the richest in the city, on Dec. 11th, between EUingsworth and - McMahon, two gilded lypuths, the bloody details of which are sickening. .McMahon was punished nearly to death, and the furniture, carpets; land clothes^ of the spectators were sprinkled with the blood of the combatants. Slogging matches in the clubs are also being revived in Boston. Mr Yanderbilf 8 death is attributed to overwork. Suspicious characters have been found hovering near his tomb, and it is believed theft of the, body is contemplated, as in the case! of the millionaire Stewart. The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, the eminent preacher, is suffering from heart disease, and is- permanently broken in health. ;■ ; There is a mad dog scare in London, and policemen are provided with long iron rods, having slip nooses at the «nd. There have been 56 cases of rabies reported this year in the city. Advices received from the various counties of Ireland state that hundreds of Irish landlords are in the deepest distress, and some of the smaller landlords are on the eve of starvation, owing to the fact that they have not received any. rents for some time past. It is estimated that not as much as £5000 in rents has been paid in the agricultural districts since the beginning of November.--Mr Burt replaces Sir Wilfred Lawson as the leader of the Local Optionists. Mr Bradlaugh has entered into negotiations with the Liberal leaders. The number of the members of the new House of Commons who never before were elected to Parliament is 332. Six children were bitten by a rabid dog running at large near Newark, New Jersey, on December 4th. A peculiar feature of the case is that, at his request, the children have been sent to M. i'asteur, in Paris, for treatment. Western and O'Leary began their foot journey of 2,500 miles at the Metropolitan rink, Newark, New Jersey, on December 7th. The rules are twelve hours a day, including Sundays. The walk is undertaken as a trial of endurance between the two men. Chinamen are being systematically boycotted in every town on thy Pacific Coast,- and opium joints have increase 1 80 fast in eastern cities that general alarm is felt. There is a most decided boom in the iron trade in the United States at present. Oh December sth theie was an advance of one dollar a ton on pig metal and fifty cents on ore. The trustees of the Sharon Estates have distributed 60,000 dollars among the various charitable institutions of San Francisco. The distribution was made within three, days after, the millionaire's death. Jay Gould, the great financial operator, has announced his intention to retire from Wall street at the close of the year. J. K. Emmett, the actor, is still repeating the disreputable practices he waa given to in Australia. On the night of the 27th of November he and several of his company appeared on the stage in Pennsylvania city much the worse for liquor, and was promptly and vigorously hjssedby the audience. President Cleveland allowed himself to be dissuaded from attending vicepresident Hendrick's funeral, on the ground that some crank might assassinate him. Now the majority of the Press are jeering him for causeless timidity. The police made a decent on the 16th December on a cottage in the suburbs of the city and captured four dynamiters, with many of their destructive appliances, and a list of citizens checked off for death. It is asserted that the plot is the outgrowth of the aiiti-Chinese agitation, and' as a means to enforce a resolution passed by the agitators that the Chinese "must go" on or before the 16th of January, 1886, The parties arrested are three Germans and one Russian. Charles D. Boarley, a Chicago physician, has become insane by the use of the new anesthetic, Cocoaine. and has physically ruined his wife and five children by some experiments with the draught. The Salt Lake Mormons have turned the tables on the Gentiles, in return for the almost incessant prosecution for polygamy. They have examined closely into the private lives of antiMormons and the results is indictments for lewdness and adultery, and other practices, contracting to law and good morals. Society circles in cork were agitated on December 14th.. over the elopment of Miss Marasina along with her fathers groom, a prepossessing young fellow named Hodnitt: The runaways were married in Dublin, where they were captured. The young lady was sent back to her father, and Hodnitt to gaol for six months. A tremendous storm on November 22 and 25 "wrought great havoc in the Atlantic States, particularly among the shipping. Baldwin, the owner of the hotel m San Francisco that bears his name, is about to build a first-class theatre in New York. Rumour says'the Veteran Calif ornian Manager, Thomas Maguire Baldwin, has pulled off some 200,000 daUsrs by his racing stable in the east {jfeJß season. His horses are all Cali-r ibrnian raised.