FRISCO' MAIL ITEMS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 127, 6 April 1886, Page 2

FRISCO' MAIL ITEMS.

— ■ * - (Per Mail Steamer at Auckland.) (per united press association.) - Auckland, April 4. The Conservatives at Birmingham have already had caucuses for the next general election. They have decided to again contest all of the seven districts of the city. Every one of them is now represented by a liberal, and rt the inference is that the Conservatives calculate that the liberals will not be as strong in Birmingham at the next election as they were the last one. Bradford, York County, has had s mad-dog scare of a serious kind. In i January a mad dog ran through .the I streets, and bit 20 persons. One of them died on March 12th, in terrible | agony, with all the symptoms of hyI drophobia. The other 19 have consequently been thrown into a state of fearful apprehension, lest they too may be attacked by the disease. M. Past- , uer telegraphs that he is unable to send the virus to JBedferd from Paris/ Two patients were to have left for the latter place on March 14. A fund has been started to defray the expenses. The American wool growers -are before Congress, asking for the restroration of the tariff rates of 1667, which they say gave them fair living profits. The growers cannot how' grow wool in competion with the English growers on Australian lands. A London Cablegram of March 10th says : — It seems that the appointment of Mr Gladstone's aon-in-law to? a valuable Crown rectorship was a coin? pliment, quickly paid, by the new Lord Chancellor, without the knowledge of the Prime minister, The latter objected, and the appointment was recalled, but not before some of the Pamellities had made it the bans of a furious attack on the Premier. Louise Hart, a rioh princess (?) in the West of London, was committed for trial on March 9th, charged with v providing young girls for a number of aristocrats. .".-.■> In March a tremendous snowstorm prevailed in the north of England, suspending traffic on many railways. They caused much suffering among: the passengers on various trains which _ were snowbound. Some of the trains were embedded in snow drifts for 4$ hours. The loss of cattle in transit was enormous. The London Missionary Society received advices from Zanzibar on Feb. 24th to the effect that two men who returned to that place from T*zegans> report that they saw Bishop Hamington, with fifty men of his expedition, . taken out for execution. .;■.;■■■• A mob of 800 attempted to run riot in the streets of Birmingham on Feb. 15th and pillage the streets. The police were prepared, and promptly repressed the attempt. Sir Charles Dilke has decided to persevere in his policy of silence in. regard to the serious disclosures made during the recent divorce trial. He will make no explanation of his conduct to the Chelsea electors. Californian wheat reached the lowest ■-- price on record in the English market on February t7th. A cargo sold in the Mersey at 31s 6d per quarter. Sir Charles Dilke has gone to the South of France, where he will remain for six months. Mrs Crawford, the respondent in the Crawford-Dilke scandal case, has gone into seclusion in Italy. An orphanage for boys, in the town of Voerdi, province of Ariuoberg, was destroyed by fire. Five of the in- i. mates perished in the flames, and ~: thirty others were injured. ■ The stationmaster whose neglect caused the Mentone and Monte Carlo . railway accident, has committed suicide at Nice, whither he had fled. The marriage of Earl Cairns (Lord ; Gannoyle) to Miss Adele Grant, daugh- :. ter of Mrs Beach Grant, of New York; * . will take place in London in July. ; Mr Froude, the historian, has declared himself against Home Rule. ■■ Howard, a Texas editor, whe thought it his duty to assail in his paper saloon keepers and municipal officers - at Kingston, had to defend himself against a personal attack on March 6, and killed three men in doing so. Lord Dufferin has decided to gam- * . son Bunnah with 16,000 troops, under the command of General Prendergast. Military occupation and martial law • will be continued until November, as Lord Dufferin does not think the country ripe yet fer the establishment .■ of civil law.