'Frisco Mail News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 300, 24 June 1895, Page 2

'Frisco Mail News.

I Per Press Association \ . Auckland, June 20. An English syndicate has bought ;he Morning Star Mine wiih a large ;ract of land in the Marion Country, Arkansas, U.S., for .£60,000. The Manchester Courier predicts ;hat Chauncey Depew, the oratorical 'ailroad magnate, will be next U.S. Minister to the Court of St. James. John Lawrence Toole, the well_nown Engiish actor, is suffering from Daralysis, and it was announced that ie may and would permanently retire trom the stage. C. L. Taylor, land agent for the Marquis of Ely, was shot and killed du May 2nd, while standing outside the Courthouse at New Ross, in Cork, by a bailiff, whom he had threatened to evict from his holdings. The affair caused great excitement. A mysterious explosion took place Dn May 17th in a railway carriage, which was just arriving at the Walworth railway station, on the London, Chatham and Dover road. The sole occupant of the carriage was. badly injured. Near liim was found a brass cylinder nine inches long. An English syndicate of many members has quietly secured a site in a central part of Chicago, and intend to erect a musical hall similar to the Alhambra and the musical halls of London. The Primitive Methodist Conference in session at Dudley, England, expelled on May 7ih, the Rev. Jonathan Bell from the ministry and communion. Bell had been running amuck in a moral sense, it is alleged, in both Europe and the United States. On the 7th of May the Pall Mall Gazette printed a column article, alleged to be based on police enquiries, suggestin" that an ex-soldier named Grainger, a native of Cork, is the real Jack the Ripper. Grainger is now serving alO years' term ot penal servitude for stabbing a woman in the White Chapel district last March. The Qneen returned to Winds-or Castle from London on May 9th. The Princess of Wales will hold the remaining two drawing rooms. The Princess is greatly changed and looks like an old woman. The Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha is attending very many public functions and seems sptciallv anxious to win public favor. He is ufiviid of tbe continued growling of Radicals and others over the pension which he receives from British taxpayers. At a meeting of the leading city bankers and merchants, beld at the banking house of Glynn, Mills, Currie and Co., London, on May 20th, it was decided to form a gold standard Defence Association, and Mr Bertram Currie, chairman of the meeting was elected president of the new association.