Arrival Of the 'Frisco Mail

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 16, 23 July 1889, Page 3

Arrival Of the 'Frisco Mail

;-'-;♦ . .. — (PER UNITED FBBBB ASSOCIATION. ) Auckland, June 20.. Arrived : Zealandia, from San Francisco The Queen will in future permi divorced ladies, who are themaelve blameless, to enter her presence. Thi indulgence caused a rush to the Court Germany has made a demand oi France, according to the *• Soleil" o June 19th, for compensation for thi arrest of an alleged spy, ;ua;ae( Lechimer, near Belfort. The Council of Switzerlan 1 have de cided to borrow 16,000,000 franci with which to purchase repeating rifles for the army. The Russian army is to be equippec with new rifles, of a small calibre which are to be manufactured in France The American demand for wool ii the Boston market for the week endiug June 27th continued very large with prices firm. Large sales made good prices. The receipts of new wools are growing large, the greatei proportion coming from California, Texas, and the Territory. Some oJ the holders of Territory wools are making such prices as to make theii «08t almost aB much as Australian. The foreign markets are strong, and the wool situation at Home and abroad is still as to denote a firm market for some time to come. English capitalists are investing heavily in American industries. A report made on June 24th shows they have put at least 200,000,000 dollars in them within the year, and if they continue will soon gain complete control in' many directions. A petition from delegates to the ■Convention of Wool-growers, held in Washington last July, has been transmitted to the President, asking that an extra Session of Congress be called to consider the question of tariff, and • to legislate on it, with special reference to woollen produce. The petition also urges the administration to sustain New York appraisers in assessing the duty. at 36 cents per lb on ' worsted imported. While' Mr Gladstone was passing through the town of Wadbridge, dornwall, on June 13 th, a missile, believed to 'have been a cartridge, was thrown at his carriage, but it did no harm. A barque used to carry railway passengers and freight across the St. Maurice River, near Quebec, became unmanageable on June 22, and was »wept over the Grand Fall two miles below the station. Besides the crew a large number of passengers were on board, but how many lives were loßt has not been learned. All the bodies recovered were horribly mutilated by contact with the rocks in the current. An estimate placed the number that were- drowned at 20. At Toronto, Ontaria, on 25th June, fifty persons were prostrasted and fifteen expected to die from drinking lemonade in the town of -Woodstock. Sugar of lead was found to ba one of j the ingredients of the drink, which j was served at a big picnic, the drug- ' gist by a careless mistake giving that substance for tartaric acid. A crowd started to hunt the druggist to lynch him, after they had raided his shop and scattered his stock broadcast. The libel suit of O'Donovan Rossa against editor Cassidy was dismissed in a New York Court on the 13th June, after the most damaging evidence given against Rossa, and which proved him a traitor to the Irish cause. It was proved he had re- j ceived 1500 dols. from Patrick Ford, of the New York Irish World, for the families of prisoners in English gaols, of which he xraly distributed 500 dols. Cassidy, the defendant, caused a great sensation in Court by submitting a letter from Henry Labouchere, dated Twickenham, April Ist, 1889, showing that Rossa was in receipt of secret service money from the British Government, and that he (Labouchere) in his place in Parliament had objected to voting away the money of the taxpayers in England to go into Bossa's pockets. Andrew Carnegie, the American millionaire, gave a banquet in honor of Mr and Mrs Gladstone at the Hotel Metropole, London, on June 1 8th. The chief sensation in London for the week ending June 22nd was over the Prince of Wales' leper. London took exceptional interest in the circumstances surrounding the death of Father Damien, the missionary priest at the leper colony of Molakai, in the Sandwich Isands. The Prince in his speech at a meeting to consider a scheme for the foundation of a leper hospital, declared that there was a leper employed in a London meat market. At this a fearful outcry was made by the butchers and columns of protests were crowded into the papers, until the identity of the man was revealed. He proved to be a native Englishman, who had never been out of the- country, and who made a living, fey peddling ox tails. leper. y "~^The Princess Stephanie, whose husband (Prince Rudolph of Austria] committed suicide, will soon be able ■ to go to Vienna (says a London des- \ patch of June 22nd) and to the Austrian court, which she detests. According to law she is obliged to remak in the capital as' long as there is 8 probability ot a posthumous heii being born at the end of a fixed term She will take up her residence in s viila on Lake Lucerne. The house in which the young Prince killed himseli at- Myerling has been pulled down, the orders of the Emperor being t( make every effort to obliterate th< scene of the midnight tragedy anc cause it to be forgotten.