Arrival of the Frisco Mail

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 104, 10 March 1887, Page 2

Arrival of the Frisco Mail

GENERAL SUMMARY.

[per united press: association^ iO ; 'A.y:u.^.y i<y Auckland, March 9*.A* (European dates vnp to; February *l_£lt:)_. | London cable messages of -February 14 say Berlin advices are net favorable to prolonged continuance .of peace between France and Germany. Uneasiness on the Bourse^^ h|M.e^nd^to^e f dip;lp^tio relations of ttie two colilitrles'. , -' '' A ' a* ~ ■ : Russian securities are weak and low. The immense preparations of that Power by land and sea lend an air of probability to the proposition that the Czar is in gifta earnest, an*i . is . making; . ready;, -, not ouij} o to occupy Bulgaria, but to seize Cohstau- " tinople. i Sir Charles Dilke was left a fortune of nearly L 200.000 by a distant relative on February 2nd. ■■''■'' ■'"■ -.'■ ■-' A ! Sir W. Vernon Harcourt invitediMtL? Gladstone to meet Lord Hartington and Lord Randolph Churchill at dinner at his house on the sth. Lord Hartington and Mr Gladstone sent excuses. The r . invitations caused a slight sensation; * ~ Lord Cohn Campbell's library was sold by auction in Edinburgh: The books were mainly Scotch, and the proceeds will not go far towards paying the" cost of his recent suit, Tlie bill handed ' in amounts. to L 13.500, and unless thisis.. paid it will land Lord Colin in bank-' ruptcy. Acting upon his physicians' advice, Mr Pn m ell will go abroad to recruit his health. He is ia said to be sufferi(i\r from pulmonary disease, and to be d rager-* ously ill. Ttie striking" mm ts at Blantyro. Scot- d land, were engaged in a riwtous demon* strut ion on .February Bi.lt •- They looted a number of sho**s, and the police had, to . be called out. The miners strike, was reported tb be spreading in Scotland; bat , latest dispatches speak of it as abating. The stock market opened weak in Lon- ' 4on on January 29th, under the influence of a tremendous war scare, aiid holders s*o!d a largo •. amount of. stock about 7o,<)00 shares in the aggregate. A sharp rally followed on a sober second thought that the alarm .was groun lless. T r , t There was terrible- rioting in the Peter- -.. shiil and Spiinhill Districts of Dublin on the night of January 29th. The trouble originated through tlu» soldiers belonging to the West Surrey regiment insulting a number of Catholic civilians. The. latter retaliated by stoning the soldiers' many ef whom were injured. ~ The rioting was renewed the. following night, the police .and mob exchanging shots. No one was :killed, . although ' several received gun shots. One thousand starring labourers headed by a priest, appeared before the Board of Guardians, and prayed for work or relief. Th<9 board gave the applicants a hearty meal, and agreed to apply to Government for assistance. - News from the northern part pf Ireland I represents things in a -deplorable condition. .Many people are starving.. Considerable excitemeat has been caused among navy -pensioners now re* siding in Canada, both \ seamen and marines, by .the receipt of a circular from the British Admiralty calling upon all under. 50 years to., hold themselves in readiness for active service. '' The alarm due; to the watr canard (says ! a London cablegram of January 28th) subsided rapidly; "The News offered no" explanation, while the Paris Press charges hot only the ; News oa this account, but the whole English Press, with tying to promote hostilities between France and Germany for. .its own ends. ; The Supreme Court. of Missouri granted, on January 31st, to H,M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, a' reprieve until April Ist. ' Brooks is in prison at St. Louis, and was ordered to be exeouted on, February 3rd." Michael Davitt has undertaken to champion Dr M. Glynn's case against the Pope- and Cardinal Siraonh At a meeting of 10,000 people held in New York otf January* 23rd, he made a fero-d cious attack on the lat,tpr, the Pope's Secretary. y ' At Yougap r ,on the 16th instant. 75. children left school ra a body, crying .^ " God Sare Ireland," because of the pre* . - sence jof two children whose, father is. an emergency man. All ' the tenants, of Bodyke are armed with Enfield riflei. and are prepared to resist evictions^ to the bitter end. A-S'A A-.. Edison, the inventor, is dying of puU monary disease,: , > Heary snowstorms in tho Sierras bare . .still further delayed the overland trains carrying portions of tbe English mails. The s.s. Mariposa has been waiting for the last 24 hours with passengers on bo rd, and will probably get to sea oh the 17th, if not earlier. It was decided a the Grand Imperial Council held in Berlin on January 31, that the Delegations should be convoked in lfl arch, to vote extra military credits bf 15,000;00d[ dollars, and a special credit for the equipment of the Landstrum; The whole German army and reserves are te be called out in sections of 72,000- - to.be drilled, in the use of thednew | pepeatinK rifhv Germany has also made arrangements tq fat erect bam ok a iat various point a along the French iron* 'tier.. ;