'Frisco Mail Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 139, 8 December 1894, Page 2

'Frisco Mail Items.

(Per Alameda at Auckland.) (Dates from Europe up to November 14.) Messrs Neville and Co., merchants, East Cheap street, London, failed on November 14th for £100,000. They were in the Canadian lumber business. A favorable liquidation is expected. All London was much interested for the week ending Sunday, October 28th, in a cannibalistic tragedy at the Zoo. A boa constrictor nine feet long swallowed its mate eight feet long. A pigeon had been given to each snake. The larger boa swallowed his first, and then seizod the bird which was in the jaw of its mate. As the teeth of both reptiles were securely fixed in the pigeon there was nothing for it but one should swallow the other, aud*the smaller one suffered. The appearance of the survivor is sufficient proof of his guilt. He is swollen to nearly three times his normal girth. In a leader on October 29th upon Lord Rosebery's speech at Bradford, in opening the Liberal campaign, the Daily News said the speech was the finest Lord Rosebcrry ever delivered, and that it has made his future as a Liberal leader. The American line steamer Paris arrived at Southampton on October 24th. She ran down and probably sunk an unknown ship, an the Paris was put about and search made for the vessel, but in vain. The steamship sustained no damage boyond having a portion of her rail bent, and two wire stays broken. Gabriel Segni, a priest belonging to a rich and influential family in the Argentino Republic, was found on October 22nd, hanging from a bed post in the room of a private hotel in London with a silk handkerchief tied tightly rouud his neck. It was supposed that the man committed suicide, as a note sigued Louis Careros was left to that effect. It is now believed that ho was murdered, and the London police are trailing a young man named Eugeno who roomed with Segni until a day or two before his death. Tho Argentine Legation is investigating the matter, A despatch from London on October 20th says no hope is now entertained that Mr Gladstone iwlll return to political leadership. His infirmities are greater that when he laid down the cares of office. A despatch from Petershead on October 24th announces that the Swedish schooner Alene, loaded with gunpowder, had been blown up. Within two minutes after the explosion nothing was seen on the surface of the water but the splinters of the schooner. All the crew perished. A rather awkward situation is threatened, says a London despatch of the 11th November, in connection with the British army, owing to tho continued refusal of the Duke of Cambridge to retire from the post of Commander-in Chief. He denies tho report of his impending resignation.