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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 40, 18 September 1890, Page 4

Additional Frisco Mail Items

Sir William Harcourt, at Derby in - attacking the House of Lords said that it had done nothing during the present session beyond promoiiug a Bill to preserve hares and to secure an extension of the game laws. In a bar-room in Kingsland Road Ijßudon.r on July 31st, a discharged soldier quarrelled wiVh . two men, and drawing arevolver, killed the in both. Shannon, the Dublin solicitor of the London Tiinea, who was concerned in the Pigott scandal, turned up on Augu&t i 3xh after several months disappearance. • In af. speech at Manchester on August 9th, Mr Balfour made an onslaught on Mr Gladstone for inconsistent action, and in; concluding, aakdd V. >Vhy .was -Mr Gladstone so determined to repudiate every action of the first o"0 years of his life; and .to denounce the Government when it followed~tMß precedent ? . At the.faneral of the victims of the Stetine mi|aing; disaster on the 31st July, some" of the coffins were inscribed — i'^To the martyrs of labour," and."To\ the: victims of capitalists." Several- Socialists spoke, and 20;000 francs were voted by the Chamber of Deputies for the families. London .was scared on August 19th by a case of 'Asiatic cholera, brought from'baicutta. „ . John Euskiu is reported as rapidly sinking, 'and has twice, tried, to kill himself. Eecently a. military pupil while ; .. relatives' in Alsace Lorraine "was , arrested hand cuffed, , marched away, and his. host fined for failing to notify the authorities of the presence of a Frenchman. There was-another sensational development in -.f; the O'Shea-Parnell divorce case on August sth, when Mrs.'O'Shea's solicitors withdrew from ' the case. This is the second time — Mrs~Q 7 .Shea "has lost legal support. A declaration of war' on the part of 'her "caste" was recently made by the Duchess of Buccleuch in failingto invite rich Americans and others to her ball and garden party. Her lead is to be followed by all her set. The English govern ment, informed . Cardinal^Bampotla, the Papal Seci etary of State, that it was impossible for England to receive the l^apal envoyrr- or r to send a Minister to the Vatican. ; ■ - „ . • r . Harvest is making active progress, " "but tfie w.^eat crop varies greatly. .. In . the heavieit 'growing coudtties the crop is full, and" new wheat shown in . London •. ; and r .; provincial . markets - sampled well. Supplies of old are - almost exhausted. ...'_ y : ■•: ,'■- ;.- . i} Transportation ; to Siberia will ; shortly be abolished as a. judicial punishment.^ •.-:■•: . . New York dealers are prophesying ~that hdps will reach a very 'high this season. The town of Shaffer, Texas, was -^sacked on August 6th by 20 Mexicans, afterwards burned. State Banger * :&. F.i(3raveß^w:as killed, and Sheriff _ Lee was seriously wounded. ■ July 31st is said to have been the " .hottest day ever J f cli in New York. The mercury rose about 96 after 2 o'clock, and the sua blazed down, with -consuming power. "The' streets wore the appearance of those of a southern -city. -Several cases of sunstroke were r reported .before noon, some ending - fatalty. The exact record of these it ■ was not easy to secure, . because in addition to a great number of cases cared for at- hospitals, many victims were taken^from the streets to stores and offices 'and- sent directly to their homes in private conveyances. * At the hospitals the houses and ambulance surgeons had their hands full. .Thousands of people fled from the city, and it was really dangerous for people-to venture into the streets, especially in" thfe commercial part of the town: ' Ambulances from all the hospitals were dashing about every- - where picking up persons prostrated , by the heat, and. conveying them to ■;-the x hoßpitals for treatment. In the England cities the' heat was also excessive, and much suffering was -experienced.