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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 103, 9 February 1886, Page 2

'Frisco Mail Items

[per united press association.] Auckland, Februnry 5. The Radicals are iookinjj for the even* tual passing of Mr Gladstone's Irish Bill in the House, and its rejection by the Lords, an appeal to the country by Mr Gladstone on the b.-isia of nniversal suffrage, abolition of the House of Lords, and an Irish Parliament, aided by the Nationalists in Great Britain and Ireland. The Liberal League of America baye had a hot quarrel on hand with Eobert Ingersoll, the infidel lecturer, and his agent. They are charged with pocketing the funds intended for the benefit of the League. A cablegram of January 10 says that the great steel manufacturer. Mr Marshall, of Sheffield, is abcut to remove his entire works to America. Some of the most skilled workmen will be brought over, and the rest hired in the United States. One thousand men are employed. A despatch from London, of January 8, says that the poverty of hundreds of Americans of that city is appalling. Subscriptions are circulating daily among those with incomes to send the unfortu* nates home. More than 500 are tiring in absolute squalor, and subsist only by begging. The Belfast Presbytery has issued a manifesto declaring that the adoption of Home .Rule at any time impolitic, would now be disastrous and criminal. The Duke of Devonshire, Lord Har« tington's father, ewn : ng 60,000 acres in Ireland has accepted the presidency of the Irish defence fund. Tremendous freshets have taken place in the Balkans. The Maritza, a large river in Boumclia, overflowed its banks in January, and nine villages were swept away, with much loss of life. A London cable to the New York Herald, dated January 10th, says that the Marchioness of Westmeath was arrested in the streets of Loudon on Jan. 6th for drunkenness. She was divorced twenty- four years ago from the Marquis, and has led a disreputable life ever since. The Times correspondent at Mandalay telegraphs, January 6th, that 10,000 rebels are scouring the country within a radius of 20 miles of capital, and that they threatened to attack the pal cc \Jiere has been a sharp advance in American iron and steel, and a bo»m in the iron trade generally. By the New York commercial bulletins a review of the wheat market for the world during the past 25 years is published. It appears that the price of wheat in Great Britain at the close of the year was lower than in any year since the average market prices were recorded — a period of 110 years — and the unsold stock of wheat in the United States has been larger than in any previous year. A fight has taken place between a body of Russian troops and 6000 Shosovals, tvho were crossing the Persian frontier to ; ivmter in .Russian Vloghistan. Eighty Shosarnls and 17 Cossnckis were killed in 1 ;he battle, and a large number wounded, > Che .Russian commander asked for rein- i ercements. i