Arrival of the 'Fnsco Mail

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 27, 17 August 1889, Page 2

Arrival of the 'Fnsco Mail

(Per R.M.S. Alameda at Auckland.) v A London despatch of July 20 says thafc Queen Victoria is making arrangements for the Prince of Wales to relieve her of the labor of considering State documents. The Prince in this case assumes all the : responsibilities. Christine Neillson, the Swedish prima donna, has become deaf, the result of illness. A despatch of July 20th, saysr — The doctors are confident they will pull Wilkie Collins through " his present crisis, bufc that he neyer will be able to work again. The residents of Hawarden propose toerect a monument in honour of Mr Gladstone's golden wedding, which was celebrated in grand style on July 25th. The whole of the United Kingdom sent memorials, addresses, and other tributes of respect. The Prince of Wales and a thousand dignitaries sent pleasant words; of congratulations. M. Kamala, Sarah Bernhardt's husband, is confined to an insane asylum. He is threatened with incurable insanity, the result of morphine.. Theodore Schmidt, the Dutch consul at Strasburg, failed on July 4, with liabilities mounting to 12,000,000 marks, and 8,100,000 marks. The fruit and wine crop in Northern Bohemia is reported an utter failure owing to the almost constant stoims. The New York Mail and Express has a special cable from Rome, nnder date July 6, to the effect that the Pope has arranged to leave the Vatican, and has prepared a list of court personages to accompany him. _<'_;• It is announced in ecclesiastical circles that the Pope's expressed desire for the ' Cardinals to select Cardinal Lavagene as his successor meets with the approval of the prelates, and that there is no doubt Lavagene will be the next Pontiff.