'Frisco Mail Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 17, 20 July 1894, Page 2

'Frisco Mail Items.

.» The Scottish Ciiamber of Husbandry adopted on June 27th a resolution to the effect that the present financial depression is due to the monetary change of 1872, and they have decided to petition Parliament in favor of Bi-metallisru. At a meeting of the London cab owners on June 27th, the President of the Cab Proprietors Protective Association stated that the strike of the drivers had cost the owners nearly £100,000. Quite a number of owners had been driven into the bankruptcy court, while others had been compelled to sell out their business. The National Anti-Betting League, of London, commenced, on July 11th, the first of the threatened series of prosecutions of racehorse owners, managers, and bookmakers. The suit was against the lessees of the Northampton racecourse, and a bookmaker doing business. Though the Court dismissed the suit against the lessees, the bookmaker was fined 40s. Sporting men in London were betting ou June 1 7th, whether an important event, then momentarily expected to take place at White Lodge, Richmond, would take the shape of a Prince or a Princess. The "London Post, of June 22nd, commenting upon the decrease of emigration to the United States, thinks it is less due to the exclusion laws than to, the fact that the West has had its day, and thai the tide of emigration is turning towards Africa, The omnipotence of capital in the United States has grown to an almost intolerable tyranny, and has driven the farmer and workman to the wall.