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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 107, 28 February 1893, Page 2

'Frisco Mail Items

[Per Mariposa at Auckland.] Mrs Maybrick had a slight relapse on January 12th, which lasted three days. It was due to a refusal to eat. The nurse eventually persuaded her to take nourishment, and she improved. The London papers on January 21st reported more coroners' inquests of deaths from starvation than haye been known in the great metropolis for years. There were four in one day in the week ending the 21st. In its census, the paupers have passed the 100,000, and now count 102,000. The increase in public paupers over last year is 5000. There is no longer any dread of monster meetings of unemployed at East End. Nothing is heard now of the mass meeting in Trafalgar square. The poor are wrestling with starvation iv silence. Intense excitement was caused in the neighborhood of Brighton on January 19th by the discovery at a suburb, of Arthur Black, a teacher of mathematics and classics, his wife, and son, dead at their home. The child was found in a tumbled bed, stabbed in the neck. Mrs Black, with her head terribly battered, was lyiug on the floor above. On the third floor Black's body was found. No wound was visible, but on the table beside him was a hammer, table knife, and bottle that contained poison. The general opinion is that Black, murdered his wife and child and. then committed suicide by taking poison. The couple had a second child away from home on a visit. The continued dry weather in Lower California is becoming serious. Never before in forty years has there been a January when cattle could not ftud feed in the valley lands. Now they are forced to the kills, where they browse on brush. All the cattle are but skeletons of their former selves, and unless rain comes soon the death rate will be very large. The season so far is the driest known for forty years. It has been definitely determined by German savants that the cholera infection comes from the river Saale. Five workmen who persisted in drinking the water were taken down with the genuine Asiatic scourge. The authorities at Halle have made it a penal offence to drink the Saale water without first boiling it. Paris is making preparations to fight tho disease with ail the known samtatj methods. There is general alarm throughout Europe, and the approaching summer is regarded with grave apprehension. A pork famine is threatened in the United States. The receipts at the main packing centres in the west for the month, of December, 1892, were only 2,700,000 hogs, or half the amount for the same period the preceeding rear. Prices have risen eighty per cent with an upward tendency. At a dinner Riven to the Emperor of Germany by Herr Krupp and a number of other persons engaged in the huge industrial enterprises, the Kaiser tried to talk his hosts iuto adoptiug a better policy towards working nieu. Herr Krapp contended, and so did the others, that the absolute suppression of ihe strikes and the severe punishment or strikers, would be the best way to meet the mvu's dvuiaud,