'Frisco Mail News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 102, 5 March 1889, Page 2

'Frisco Mail News

I_P"SB UNITED PBEBB ASSOCIATION.]} Auckland, Vfarch 4. The Frisco mail arrived at Auckland per Alauteda. " "V 'Fbisco February 11. On Sunday, 10th, a gale was blowing from N.E. and the schooner Mantatu, belonging to Rage and- Co., parted her cable aud was driven on the reefs, and became a total wreck. The German warship Eber, which amved on the 14th from Auckland, dragged her anchors aud drifted dangerously near the reef, but assisted by the Olga she steamed out of danger. Miss Sophie Preston, aged about 30, a missionary to China, was recently killed in an uprising of the natives. A meteor weighing several hundred pounds, fell with a terrific crash in Chicago, near Weil- street, at 4 o'clock on February 3. A German spy named Schmidt was arrested on February 6, for taking plans of the forts being built by France on the Italian Savoyard frontier. Four brutal murders all done by the same person are reported on February 9th, from Port a Mousson within 15 miles of Nancy on the Biver Moselle. The victims included a shopkeeper and his wife, both killed with an axe, a rich widow named Tarry, who was decapitated, and another named Francois, who was also beheaded. No clue has been found to the murders. It has been definitely settled thai Smith is to fight Kilram to a finish under, the London Prize Bing rules next October or November, for £1000 aside, Mitchell to box Smith 10 rounds for £1000 aside and the boxing championship of the world, in London or the provinces. Tea thousand unemployed labourers rioted in Borne on February Bth, looting the banks and shops, smashing windows and street lamps They barricaded the streets but the cavalry finally dispersed them. Socialism is said to be the cause. The approaching visit of the Sfcah of Persia to England is causing much em* barrassment to the court officials. The Theatre Royal at Aldersaot was burned on February 8. The audience 1 c :ame panic-stricken and many persons were injured. Despatches from Vienna, February 2, say that Bismarck is threatened with paralysis. His physicians insist in absolute rest, to which the Chancellor objects.