Frisco Mail1 Items

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 73, 10 December 1889, Page 3

Frisco Mail 1 Items

(Per B.M.S. Manposa, at Auckland.)

Auckland, December 7 " General summary with dutes Jroin Europe to Noveuiber- 15. Madame Patti receives £700. for each concert in the Albert Hall London.

"- Clergy meu of the (Miurca of ISuglaud - who held brewery stock as members of the Clergy Assurance Society have been directed to sell out. The English Court has ordered Dion ' Boucicault to pay £30 monthly as ahmony to ins divorced wife, Agnea Robertson. Mrs Langtry. the English actress, has engaged St. James, Theatre, London, for ~ a. year from January next, when she •wiil open with " Twixt Axe and Crown." Sir J. B. Lawes says on October 28th ~- ■ that the British wheat crop forecasts must ' , », be v.con»iderai)ly '-discounted. The area ' for 1889 is 2,540.720 acr«a — ' over 120,000 leas than in 1888. lie puts -" . thti quarters required for consumption at - 27,000,000. " According to this English requirements will be higher than last year. ■ • ' ' x - . Th© closing of the Exposition afc Paris ou November 6th was marked by a bril- , liant fele, at which 400,000 people were present. It is said that since the openlug of the Exposition a dozen men have lost their lives in the Eiffel elevators, and - in no mstanoe has sin h accident been made public. Many "workmen were ... - killed during the construction -of the "" tower, and this fact has also been carej\ fully kept from the- public. The' total 17 .number of paying visitors to the Exposi " - tion (just closed) was 25,000,000, as compared 'with 12,000,000 in 1878 and - ' «,0i)p,000 in 1887. • * - - . The Empress of Austria, while visiting the Italian shore of Labodi Gasda early in November, was greeted by the roughs With catcalls and bowls, and' when the / ateamer left the. landing, a volley of • stones fell ou its deck. The Emperor was enraged beyoud all measure when th^matter was reported to him, and the '-'' JXahan ambassador at once called upon ■• TGount Kalnoky, and presented the apolo- - ~ gies of his Governmeut. ' A journal of St, Petersburg says on November 9th that China is arming her ' troops on the Russian frontier with repeating rifles, and that her soldiers are beiug drilled by German officers. ,-, ,- The Grand Duke Nicholas, uncle of the Czar, is 6lowly dyiug from a cancerous .- formation in the ear. London 0i junty , Virginia, is threatened i with a racial war. The negroes are wild over the lynching of Owen Anderson, who had criminally assaulted. Anme T. Olliver ~_ the young daughter of a le.idiug democrat " aX. Leesburg, and vow vengeance. " ■ Eva Ingorsoll, daughter of Colonel ; Ingeraoll, the well-known Agnostic, was mirrieJ in New York on November 13 to . Walston H. Brown, a local lawyer. There was no religious ceremony. The parties ;* simply agreed, in the presence of wit- -" nesses, to become man and wife, and -■* , sealed the contract by singing- the necessary papers. Miss (iertrudo Kimball, a Brooklyn - (New York) society belle, and a member of several dramatic societies, being dis- ' appointed in love, shot herself through .the heart on November 11th. The Bey. G. "Hudson' Smith, an eccentric clergyman, well-known - m " - California, committed suicide by jumps ing from a steamer,, on November 9, en route from Fall Eiver to New York. >^(Jp to November 1 the public debt had jgggfepon reduced 9,104,853" dollars- 72 cents jPfmce October 1, and 15,695,944 dollaib , 21 cents since June 30, 18S9. ■ i, Au electnc light current in the streets \- of iS'ew York on November, 4th roasted " _ -a horse to death, threw the driver to the " street, aud knocked a police sergeant senseless. ' " Ritualism has caused a serious split in St. George's Ctiuicu Ottawa. Wheu the - *? Kyne 1 ' was" sunk on Saturday, Sept. ~ -3rd, Sir William Ritchie: Chief Justico i>f - the. Supreme Court of Canada, and a «oore of other • prominent worshippers, promptly walked outof the Church. Sir i W- Ritchie wants the matter settled by " " the .Courts aud is willing to subscribe for ! *-a fund seeking. that object. - • * j -• Wich regard to the at a.club in ' the" West End, a despatch from London, on November lOch says :— Lord Arthur . y Somerset, major of the Horse Guards, - who is a son ot the Duke of Beaufort, is " openly accused of most villainous con- - ..duct, and nab fled the /country. Prince ' Albert Victor, eldest son of the Prince of " Wales, is eaid to have ■ more passing z reasons for bis trip to India than pleasure. -_ The Privy Council held a meeting on ; November the 9th, to discus's this rev 1 - ing subject. The Goyernmeut, however, -did- not desire -to* spread the e.an.'al and by advice the magistrates abandoned, - iurther proceedings. On November 14, the Police Commissioner, Mr Munro ■ ; - threatened to resign unless warrants for • ' tho arrest of those who figured in the scandal were issued within ten days , Lord Salisbury received a request from Mr Munro, who asked to be allowed to issue the warrants. In the meantime - Lord Salisbury quietly gave warning to :•- the accused, who left for the Continent. Mr Munro declares that if lie goes he will publish' the truth of the scandal. Among the names mentioned in connection - tion with it are Lords Bonald Gower and Errol, the equerry of- Prince Albert - ~ Victor. Lord also mentioned, ~ has resigned from the Guards.