'Frisco' Mail Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 48, 8 October 1892, Page 2

'Frisco' Mail Items

Lord Hagan, said to belong to tine of the aristocratic families'of Ireland, was arrested at 'jfdr Westminster! I 'OBlriftSfi^ Columbia, on August 24 for vagrancy and was sent to the common, goal; for [jtjfo months. : Hagan was ; at one,, tune an i inspector in the Royal Irish. 'Cpns.ta^ bulary. "^ ' " ' "' ' ;:1 : '-' !; i-' il <-**$ Gilbert and Sulivan 'signed , an agree* ment on September 9th to produce a new series of comic operas. ;^^'-iv i-^a^ A London despatch of September 10th says that Mr Gladstoae remains at Hawarden working ant ihis home Eale Biii. ■■••■■- •• -■■ .?'?v:;.t.:;;iv7 A prize fight near • Nprthampton be* tween a soldier named Cly'son and a bookmaker named Lahgley resulted in the latter being so horribly that he died in an hour.", i lysoni w£ft also seriously: injured but fsucj^ldj^ani escaping. , „ . , r = T "^ Gladston's paper on"' Archaic. Greece' was read before the International; Con* gress of Orientalists ux London lately by his spu Herber^,, ; ' . \ '.-—>:• } \ |,- While Mr Gladstone Jwas^ Walking in the part at HarardenV he was attacked by a heifer, which, was-subsequently shot. The carcase of the deadi ftmmal, (wa?r acquired at a high- value. ' ■ A,* locaLspec^i- ! lator paid L 5 for the ride and was offered LSO for ; his purchase, wtich he, refused., Another man who obtained. tnff°hb i ad? refused an ofier of £10 for allthe teeth, which found ready mariet for 46s each. A circular was issued on Augus{!26 in' London calling a meeting.ofithe: great Bradford manufacturing concern of Titus gait, Sons and Co., Limited, , tp consider a. proposition to wind, "up .the company, and the circular states. that the English- worsfard: 'trade/ generally, *in which the company were largelyVngaged, had fallen to one*tenth of what tt was before the McKinley tariff went into effect. • • . ' ;' . .■•■'.: i \ -\$ ~, \ The situation »a the Clyde shipyards is; very bad. Hundreds Of skilled mechanics have been dischargsd' owing lo low ocean and coasting freights. .This condition of the carrying trade causes shipowners"' to refrain from giving orders for new ton* nage. It is expected that the wages of all iron and steel workers will be re* duced.