Frisco Mail News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 37, 12 August 1893, Page 2

Frisco Mail News

(Pcrs.s. Mnriposa at Auckland.) (TKR TRESB ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND. AURUSt 11. It is now snid that ihe lnrge.st rough diamond ever found in Africa arrived in London on July 7th. It is a bluish white stone weighing 170 carats, and was found in the Juggersfontein mines. A yacht, having on board 30 excursionists, capsized of Skeyness, b)nglnnd, on the afternoon of Julj Bth. Twentyseven were drowned. When they were well out the yacht was overtaken by a thunderstorm, and the craft was soon bottom up. On the nif{ht of July 6th, Sir Boche Carrard, of the Atlantic steamship Fame, attended by two keepers, surprised a party of poachers on his grounds at Melville Hall. Market * HarboroUßh, Leicestershire, nnd a desperate fight ensued. Sir Bacbc was struck on tho head and otherwise injured. One of the keepers was also wounded so badly that his life is dis paired of. The poachers escaped. Denny Bros., of Duxnbnrton, Scotland, launched at their yard on July 4tli, a twin screw cargo and passenger steamer of 10,000 ton*, built for the Americnn trade. The vessel, it is clnimed. is unlinkable, she having a double bottom and the hull is divided by bulkheads into watertight compartments. The American champion swimmer, Mr Cusker defeated eusilj the cx-chatupion English swimmer, Finney, on July 16th. The match was for L2OO aside. Cuskor was afterwards challenged by the Knglixh .swimmer Nuttall to race v mile for LlOfiO aside. France has submitted to England and Americu a proposal to improve and simplify the code of signals. Some retorui is necessary on account of the increase in speed of vessels. An unprecedented and important reshuffling of the cards of the British diplomatic corps is likely to take place shortly. According to a London despatch of July 11th, Lord llosebury will have a difficulty in filling all the vacant posts without appointing outsiders. Nothing haa been said publicly here (says a London despatch of July Bth), that is since the announcement of the betrothal of the Duke of York and Princess May, about a painfully suppressed romance underlying this latest and most pompous of Royal weddings. It is stated that between four and five years ago George, Duke of York, was married by the Roman Catholic Ritual to the daughter of a British naval otficer of high rank, and that thero are children by the marriage. It is told by a lady that one week before the marriage a letter received from Princess May was being shown about in Court circles, in which the Princess said to her titled lady correspondent, that she knew all about the affair. The last quarterly trade returns for Sheffield, Birmingham, and other important districts showed a marked diminution of trade with the United States. Within one year Birmingham's trade has fallen off 10 per cent., principally because American orders for guns have been directed to a less expensivo factory in ltnlmnryi