'Frisco Mail Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 257, 7 March 1894, Page 2

'Frisco Mail Items.

j» [Per Monowai at Auckland.] London Land and Water of February Bth says it believes Mrs Majrbrick, who is at present in prison on conviction 6f having poisoned her husband, a Liverpool merchant, will soon be quietly liberated if the friends of the imprisoned woman cease their "illadvised agitation." . The manufacturers of tin plate in Swansea, Wales, who employed 3000 hands, have closed down. The depression in the tin plate industry seems on the increase. The British barque Port Yarrock, Captain Forbes, from Santa Rosalia, Lower California, on July 4th, for Queenstowu and Antwerp, was re* ported anchored in Brandon Bay, Ire* land, on January 22nd. She dragged her anchors during a heavy gale on January 28tb, and stranded at Kellconiin. Next morning all efforts on the part of the shoremen could not save the wrecked seamen, and twentytive men, including the captain, were drowned. Nearly all the crew were sick with scurvy, and the vessel must have been driven ashore on account of the physical inability of the men to handle her. On the afternoon of February 3rd, a procession of German Jewish unemployed operatives gave it out that they would hold a meeting in historic St. Paul's Church, in order to call attention to their grievances, and started towards the church for that purpose. The police met them, and clubbed them vigorously. The procession then went to Trafalgar Square, where an excited meeting was held, and at which fiery speeches were made. A strong force of police guarded St. Paul's, and remained on duty all night. A Gladstonian weekly journal, The Speaker, which gave the first reliable forecast of Mr Gladstone's Home Rule Bill, gives, from what it terms a trustworthy source, outlines of a scheme for Home Rule proposed from the headquarters of Unionism, and favored by eminent Tories. This scheme, said the paper on January 27th, is now under consideration by both sections of the Irish party, with the view of making it a Unionist plan' for solving the question at the next general election. The proposals, sum* marised, are the abolition of the Castle and Lord Lieutenancy ; the formation of five great National Councils — two for England, and one each for England, and one each for Ireland, Scotland, and Wales; the endowment of the Catholic University for Ireland, and the establishment of four Provincial Councils in Ireland similar to the English County Councils. The Speaker calls it a daring and very ingenious scheme, well baited, especially for the English and Roman Catholic consumption, but it asks, "What will Ulster men, old Tories, and fanatical Liberal Unionists, think of it V The reports of starvation in Manitoba and the north-west of Canada are proving true. Unfortunately, accordins: to a Montreal dispatch of January 15th, advices state that hundreds of destitute people are walking the streets of Winnipeg, and the distress is, terrible. To make matters wgrse^the Central Pacific Railway has discharged^" a large number of men. The Governor of the province of Cadiz, Spain, reports that thousands of people are out of work and starving, and are tramping through the country. Serious disturbances are anticipated in the rural districts.