Arrival of the 'Frisco Mail

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 96, 6 February 1890, Page 2

Arrival of the 'Frisco Mail

(Per B.M.S. Alameck.> San Francisco. January 13. Mrs James Browne-Potter, the actress, has sailed from London to Australia, to fill engagements with Williamson, Garner and Musgrove. A petroleum ship caught fire at Sunderland on the Bth January, and was burned with three other vessels. Sir Charles Eussell has been retained to watch the proceedings in the Cleveland street scandal case, on behalf of Prince Albert Victor. , Rev. F. Byng, Queen's Chaplain and Chaplain of the House of Commons, levanted on 2nd January. Turf debts are said to have been the cause. Mr Gladstone will shortly publish a critical review of Tennyson's poems. hhe fugitives from England 011 account of the v Cleveland street scandal" now number sixty. Unusually tempestuous weather has raged all over the United States. Bloody riots have taken place in the Southern States between the whites and blacks. It is stated that Mr Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan have quarrelled about the " Gorirlolier" Company that went to America, and Lave i-isso ye I partnership. It is reported ihit Sir Arthur Sullivan had made overtures to Eugene Field, of Chi ago, to take Gilbert's place. , The Queen sent Prince JJonxy of Batten>nrg abroad for reas >ns vhivi are said LO be of a domestic nature, b it s:.bse<jU3ntly forgave and re c tiled hi a. Paris despatches on December 30 quote private letters from St. Petersburg t" the effect that the recent so-called " relapse" of the Czar was not a return of the influenza but a much more serious matter. The Court story is that poison was found mixed with the food which the Czar had eaten.- The Nihilists 'confirm the report and boast that the poison was administered by one of their number. Th« Czar's oondition was critical for some time, bat powerful antidotes and skilful treatment saved his life. Early on the morumg of January 1 a fire broke out iv Forest Gate pauper school for boys and girls, London, while they were still asleep, and in a short time 26 in the upper stones were suffocated. Fifty-eight were safely taken from the building. There were six hundred persons altogether in the institution. The female department, where there 1 were 250 girls, was not touched. The boya had retired the previous evening in food spirits, having been promised a fete on New Year's Day. and the buildinsr was dfoorated throughout for the occasion Of the 26 boy's who lost their Ims only two were burned to death. The hero of the time was a boy who acted as monitor in the fatal ward. Through hie efforts many boys were literally driven from the. building, and he ceased the work of rescue only when forced back by the flames. Wardner, a thriving town of 1500 inhabitants in Idaho, asd a most important place in the great com and mini ig district, was completely destroyed by fire on January 3rd.