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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 72, 6 December 1892, Page 3

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(PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) -; -'•'* " ArCKiAND, December 4. Arrived, at; 4-4° ■p.m.— Mariposa, s.s., from San Franchisco. v : 7)a&a from Em-ope up to November 12. Rumours were current in London on the 12th that Lord Rosebery, Secretary of StaW for Foreign' Affairs, and Princess Victoria, • the eldest: unmarried daughter *of the Prince of Wales, are betrothed. Viscount Sudley, eldest son and heir of the Earl of 'Arran, will marry the \ widow of Robert Sherman, New York, on Tuesday, November the 15th. The Earl is opposed to the marriage. The viscount is 24 years of age, and the prospective bride has a daughter nearly as old as (hat. The Arran family is not wealthy f. • and the Widow Sherman is immensely rich. v Fogs as dark as midnight had prevailed : in London for a week. Notwithstanding a qualified denial by William Morris, the Socialist poet, that he had been offered the post of Poet Laureate,; it Wd been ascertained that Gladstone delegated Professor Bryce to make an ; offer to Morris, and said the latter declined it. Constable Pilkington, in the Constabulary Barracks at ballindrina, County Kildare, was seized with a sudden fit of I '■'{ insanity on Noyember Ist and ran amuck. < As he entered the bedroom where Sergt. t' ( *Logftn -and' Wife were', sleeping he murclered bolh, and then went to the room where Logan's children were sleeping and left them for dead. Two of the children i were found, dead with their heads' crashed in, and three fatally wounded. Pilkington tried to burg the Barracks, hut the alarm spread, and he committed suicide. He was suffering from homicidal mania. >t. Prince George, the Heir Apparent, will marry Princess Mary durmg May, 1893, ;:■ probably at Westminister, and the occasion will be made a grand national fete.