'Frisco Mail Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 69, 15 September 1894, Page 3

'Frisco Mail Items.

♦ — (Per Press Association.) (Per Alameda at Auckland.) pates from Europe up to August 22nd.) Mr Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, succeeded in calming the storm aroused by the Irish members ox the House of Commons as a result of the ▼eto by the House of Lords of the Evicted Tenants Bill. All motions made by the Irish members with a view of forcing Sir "W. Haroourt' to announce thUi ihe Government's policy were defeated on August 22nd in the House. A special despatch from Rome at London on August 21st says that the Pope had an attack of syncope on . Sunday, 19th, and for some minutes his condition caused much alarm. The celebration the Feast of Assumption, on August 17th, was the occasion for a series ofjriotous demonstrations in Belfast. The disturbances began by a mob of Nationalists, who first attacked and beat a party of Protestants, and then vented their wrath on private property. The linen factory of Mathor and Bunting was almost wrecked, and the residences of a number of Protestants were attacked, and more or less damaged Four patients from the steamship B&lmome, which arrived at Gravesend on August 7th, from St. Petersburg, were found to be suffering from Asiatic cholera. One seaman had died the previous day from the same disease. An explosion occurred on the night of August 14th in a small stationer's store attached to the New Cross post office. It was caused by gunpowder and nitroglycerine wrapped in heavy paper inserted in the Jetter box. On a portion of the paper was written " In memory of Ravachol, Bourdin, Vallaint, and Santo!" The wool manufacturers of Bradford, Leeds, and Halifax, where stocks are abnormally low, and where business has been stagnant for years, expect a revival as a result of the tariff settlement in the United States The Executive Committee of the International Lodge of Good Templars, London, again refused on August 6th to rescind the edict against dancing at lodge meetings. Fourteen lodges have thrown down the gauntlet, and declared that having been guilty in the past they are likely to be guilty in the future. This defiance will probably result in their temporary suspension. J. G. L. Mowatt, librarian of the Pembroke College, Oxford, committed suicide by hanging himself. The coal mines near Bombrown, Poland, were burning on August 11th, and several hundred miners were entombed, beyond hope of rescue. The fire started by an explosion of gas while the full working force was underground. The latest report was the number underground reached seven hundred, and that all hope of saving them was abandoned. The mines are owned by the Franco-Italian Bank.