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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 119, 1 April 1890, Page 3

Frisco Mail Items

(PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION). Auckland, March 30. (Dates from London up to March 7th.) It is said, there ia a good chance of Lord and Lady A-berdeen visiting Australia before they come back to England, if Lady Aberdeen's health allows of so long a journey. At present the ex-Viceroy of Ireland and his wife are at Mentone, and will subsequently visit Italy, and probably Sicily. * By the death 6i Sir Robert Sane, the hero of the Calliope hurricane at Apia has lost his father. The Calliope was intercepted at Port Said on her way home from the Pacific through the difficulty over the Makololo affair, but the gallant old vessel left Zanzibar for Portsmouth on the M&th of February, and will be paid Lord Augustus Loftus, in a letter to TChe Times of February 21st, on the sugar question, suggests the cultivation and manufacture of beet sugar in Ireland, with a view to compensating the agriculturists for loses sustained of late years by the growth of wheat. Amongst the new naval appointments just announced by the Admiraly, Dr Thomas Hope Lewis has been appointed surgeon and agent at Auckland. Dr Lewis is a well-known Auckland physician. Cardinal Manning has headed the -crusade to relieve the poorly-fed and •over- worked shop girls of London. Stanley has accepted an invitation to address the anti- Slavery meeting to be held in London next summer. The will of the poet Browning has been probated. He bequeaths his «state, valued at £1700, to his son. • The Home Secretary, Mr Matthews, while leaving his office to attend .a. dabinet council on the afternoon of Saturday, February 13th, had a narrow escape from serious injury. He was passing under a skylight, when two men, who were standing on a slight scaffolding cleaning glass, lost their footing and fell to the tiled floor. One of them, who grazed Secretary Matthews as he fell, was instantly killed by the fall and the other was badly injured. . Mr Gladstone has again refused an •offer by a firm of American publishers of £6000 yearly for everything he writes for publication. The New York World* London •correspondent, on February 9th, says : — O'Shea has changed his tactics. His original petition charged his wife with infidelity with the Irish leader at various jr.laces since 1 886. He now intends to apply to the court to allow him to amend his petition so to bring the charges back to a beginning in 1889. Stories are being revived of Mrs Jfarnell's destitution and suffering in the United States. A recent visitor > to her wretched home in New Jersey declares that she was six weeks without fire, and that her food is scarce and frequently cooked in a barn. Her house is in a wretched condition, the walls being damp and the rooms bare of furniture ; and but for the efforts of her friends, by whom she is clothed, shw would have to endure still greater suffering. The London police have reason to believe that there is in existence a gang of desperadoes wiioae object is to inveigle rich young men to Canada and then murder, them. There haye been two mysterious disappearances in CSanada during, the past- nine months—one of a young man who went from Cheshire to Montreal, aud the other of a son of a rich man living near Shrewsbury. An officer from Scotland Yard has left for Canada. At a political meeting at Wolverhamptea on March Ist, Earl Spencer, formerly Lord-Lieutenant of L eland, made a telling speech in defence of the Irish cause and its leaders, and said that posterity would recognise Parneli as one of the greatest reformers in British history. He denounced the course of The Times towards the latter. During the case of Baird v, the Pelican Club, the Marquis of Queens bury declined to ■ swear because he was not a Christian. The witness sent a note to Lord Clifford, who showed it to "Abington," and the Marquis was so incensed that he intends to challenge Lord Clifford to a duel ia France.