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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 254, 30 April 1895, Page 2

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GENERAL SUMMARY. H. Eider Haggard, the well-known novelist, will contest Ea.st Norfolk in in the Coaaervative interest. The Duchess or Leinsttr, widow of the Duke of Leinster, died at Mentone on March 19th. She wa? reputed to be the most beautiful women in the "United Kingdom. Archbishop Walsh haa established a new qualification for holiness. He ha 9 issued a regulation in his diocese in which he directs that " no one, child or adult, shall be admitted to confirmation or instruction, or preparation for it, who had not heeu vaccinated, or who, uaving reached the age of seven years, has not recently vac cinated." The Archbishop of York sent a letter enjoining on the clergy a greatly diminished use of tobacco and other acts of self-denial during the Lsnten season. At the same time the announcement was made that His Grace will go abroad for a somewhat longer period than usual. William Streenstrand, the Liverpool cotton king, who exploited the great corner in cotton iv 1890, which \ resulted in his losing £1,000,000, died in that city on April 2nd. A New York Sun London cablegram, dated March 17th, says : " The influenza epidemic does not subside as rapidly as was hoped. The official figures of mortality still show an in crease in tho deaths. In JLondon the number of deaths from influenza in the last two weeks is 679. This exceeds the total of the entire year of 1884 This strange winter pestilence is by no means confined to the metrop olis. Even in Scotland the deathrate in February was the highest ever known, and 45 per cent abovo any previous February since records were kej.t. The influenza is peculiarly malignant iv some places. The medical profession of Europe holds out no hopo of a panacea or practical means of holding the plague iv check." Physicians throughout Europe, it is also communicated, are somewhat apprehensive of what is described as a human form of foot and mouth disease, which has been for a considerablo time prevalent iv Beriiu. Specialists who have investigated it declare that the bacteria are identical with those of cattle suffering from the complaint. They report the pestilence as dangerous, and say it is causing frequent deaths among tbo human victims Professor Yirchow and a comoitteo of the Berlin Medical Society are making an investigation of milk, which is said to be the usual vehicle of contagion.