'Frisco Mail

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 104, 3 April 1888, Page 2

'Frisco Mail

(PER UNITED PRESB 4SSOCIA TION.) Auckland March 30. Count Herbert Bismarck is betrothed to a relative of the Marquis of Londonderry, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Lord Herscheil, at a dinner of the National Liberal Club on 7th March, predicted that the Conservatives before long would propose a Home Rule scheme, representing ..probably more advanced views than thbse'of Mr Gladstone. The sculling match at Lake Weir, Florida, on 28Jt|ti February, between Teemer, Ham to, and Mackay, resulted in favor of the first named. Teemer is now champion of America. Mrs Langtry, the London actress, now i in New York, is repdrted seriously ill • from neuralgia of the heart. The execution of the sentence of death , pronounced by the State Court of Missouri on Maxwell, alias Brooks, murderer of Preller, has a&aih been stayed, pending a petition for "rehearing now before the United States Supreme Court, t Marie Rose, pnma donna, was pre- i sented at Liverpool, on March 2, with a tiara of diamonds the Queen sent her as 1 a birthday gift. The Queen sent her i congratulations to the singer. j Justin Macarthy has declined to be- , come the Deputy Speaker of the House . of Commons, giving as a reason that he | is near sighted. ! A great number of documents have j been diecovered in a hidden chamber in ' the Stratford-on-Avon Guildhall, and . thoy will be examined with the hope of c securing some new light concerning the j Vfe ci 3huke.Hpear.fi. '■•'.„