Arrival of the 'Frisco Mail

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 4, 25 June 1889, Page 2

Arrival of the 'Frisco Mail

I PKB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, June 23. Miss Kate Patten, 23 years old, of Roxburg, Mass., supposed to he dead on 21st May fioui diphtheiia and tonsilxtis, came to life again after being pronounced dead and while in the undertaker's hands who was preparing the body for the grave. Lord James Douglas, brother of the Marquis of Queonsberry, was warned off the English race track on the 80th of May for " welching." Lord Lonsdale arrived in London on the 31st May. He declares his intention of organising an expedition to the North Pole. His experiences in that region have not discouraged him, but only prepared him to do better. Prolonged earth shocks were felt in the English Channel Islands on the 30th May. The will of John Bright was probated on May 24 th. It bequeaths an estate valued at £86,184 to his childdren. There are no public bequests. A committee haa been formed to arrange for a national memorial to the deceased statesman. Mr Gladstone was knocked down by a cab while crossing Piccadilly-street on May 24th, but escaped unhurt. He ran after the cab and arrested the driver. Pillotel, a French artist, met Henri Rochfort on Regent-street, May 18th, and insulted him by shouting " Liar" and '' Coward" in his ears. Rochefort retained his usual composure until Pillotol attempted to strike him, when he drove him off with the point of a pistol. Both men were arrested. Rochefort was put under bonds of £150. In regard to the arrest of several titled gamblers at the Field Club, and who were arraigned in a London Court in May, the Prince of Wales was reported to have been in the Club room just before the arrests were made, but had a " tip," and left. At the hearing of the case on the 20th May, the Public Prosecutor announced the intention of the authorities to suppress all gaming clubs. Hundreds of them exist in London. As a result of the absolute divorce I r ited to Mrs Agnes Boucicault from Dion Boucicault, the sheriff was about to seize the English copyrights of 19 of Boucicaulfc's plays and turn over the proceeds of their sale to his late wife. The seizure and sa'e, however, were restrained by an order of the Court. The village of Deuschnachan, near Sagu, Prussia, was completely destroyed by fire on 28th May. Not a house was left standing. On May 7th, before the Commission, Mr Parnell corrected his testimony of the week preceding. He said he had been misled. The faot was when he said to the Commission that Ribbonism and Ribbon Societies generally were dead, he did not refer to the conspiracies at large when he addressed the Commons. Therefore his speech stated only the truth, and he now stood by that speech. A railway train with 800 pilgrims en route to Rome was assailed by a mob at Trieste and bombarded with stones. Many persons were injured and the railway carriages badly wrecked.