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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 16, 24 July 1890, Page 4

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For months British' Hondnras and the neighbouring Republics have been suffering from disease co terrible in its dharaoter that everyone attacked dies. At. Cayo it was reported on June 19th that the people were dying.. (like. iqt\en-. .-sheep. The nature of the disease, is in doubt. The Europeaa doctors* cafl it -yellow fever, but their American colleagues differ in . the diagnusiai The only fact is that it invariably kills in from five to flix days. The Tablet, the London Catholic Organ, printed on June 7th an interview with the,, Pope, in which the Pontiff aaid, =• Vine persecTution ©f me aad tne church iv Italy is increasing. Twelve years, have 1 been confined within titese- walls, and -within the last few years the offence3.charged against me have become T -intensified., ... -VV'liileI live I ;buab*.prote3t and ex- : pose the blasgUejnoua < way in which Italy is ' tfeatiag'Yhe'Holy See." He: expressed* his,^determination to remain at the Vatican i and defend thetiguta of the JP^pacj./ ' " ' / ! ; GounteisS^-p'A' Luefcsot, chargeid with making' h^r- if asuiodabler residence in Thiergaif tc a '- the Ucsne of outrageous conduct, ia which many members of the German nobility took pi&rtj' w s a 8; tried -fc'ebiad closed doors on June' lOfh. y 'lhe case was made /pujßiic through* the 1 arrest of the Countess for ■attempting, ro_ strangle ; a servant girl mt-Ho" threatened tjt> disclose, to tlie police what want on, within the house. Although ' the puhUc '. werq .excluded frJna tne Cc/urt room it is.knowtt.tnat Prince .Count. Yon Kotie^ FraW' yrohnewsildt the singer, and many members "of.,. the. nobility of the capital were among the witnesses summoned. ■ ' .•;••: V- ; ( ' ;•_ :. v - is gfest r outcry? >oyer New-; foundland amirs. The.: St. John's -newspapers; taurited the British naval officers, saying they ought to wear petticoats instead of breeches, aud caiyy a} lawn: tennis racquet ihtead of a »word, and that though the British men-of-war were in Newfoundland -wtftersoatGusifcly for fishing protection they in realitj- were there to bols't&'r \ip the French^ claims. }to the fisheries, audUt;p,giv.e th«^. officers ;an. opportunity 'to , lawn ; tennis, The -report .of the <gap. tain of the steamship. Harlpw, which, went to the Bay of fjis. George with J&] cargo of provisions, is published,in the Halifax; [papers of June IS-. He wasnot permitted to land: ;any gggds at the Bay, as the residents -ther,f refused tpipaj >the Customs.duesj- . and he proceeded up the coast as far as Flower's Cove, where, the . people <w ere 'found 'to be itarving and re<duced to such extreme want that they -iaS Nothing t6 r eat tut : the ' rotten ■-carcases of seals, and many were at 4he ; point of death when r the Harlow 1 '_^^_______-_.