Arrival of the 'Frisco Mail.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 251, 26 April 1895, Page 2

Arrival of the 'Frisco Mail.

, SERIOUS ILLNESS OF QUEEN , VICTORIA. I A WINDFALL FOR HENRY [ GEORGE. , (Per s.s. Arawa.) (per press association. 1 Auckland, This Day. Miss Emily Crawford contributed to Truth on March the 23rd the first public I mention of Queen Victoria's serious 5 condition. She Writes that on arrival at Nice railway station the Queen seemed unable to raise her head. One might have thought she did not feel her feet under her as with the assistance of servants she tried to descend the sloping gangway from the train into the station. . As is well known among those familiar c with Court affairs rheumatism of the 1 knees has lately not only developed a [ complete loss of power ol both legs, but extended to the back and arms, and a fatal issue is feared almost at any time. ' Princess Beatrice, who is the Queen's ' constant companion, has of late been present at all interviews with Ministers, ' and is recognised in official circles as 1 practically weilder of all royal preroga--1 tives. It is well understood the Queen [ has willed in favor of her daughter the : bulk of her savings, believed to be £1,750,000, with Osborne and Balmoral — both residence? being the private property of her Royal Mother. The will of S. M. Burroughs, who died in Monte Carlo on February Bth, bequeaths 20,000d015. to Henry George, the Single Tax apostle. The New York Herald published a cable on March 12th that Lord Rosebery, owing to the state of his health, had determined to place his resignation in the Queen's bands. The dissolution of Parliament is likely ho take place immediately after the recess. William Astor's Pall Mall Budget hag suspended. One story is current that, the proprietor resented the Budget's gomewhat commonplace obituary of Mrs Astor, while another explanation is that the paper was practically rtuTby Mrs Asfcor. At her death Mr Astor thought the paper should die also. ; ' ~ ,' r . According to a London dispatch of March 10th, Russia's international administration is entirely in the hands of the Reactionary party. The . Grand Duke Valdiner and his wife are supreme in influence over their aephew, and the Grand Duke Valdmer's views aro those of his grandfather,- the Great Nichicholas. He believes in an Austro-German alliance abroad and the sternest autocracy at home., He specially disbelieves in popular education find the Value of newspapers. i ' - '