Frisco Mail News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 159, 8 January 1896, Page 2

Frisco Mail News.

Frank Slavin, the Australian heavyweight, signed articles for a twenty round fight for £500 or £1000 a side and a purse with Peter Maher, in London, on November 19th. The fight will take place either in England or Cape Colony. The Marquis of Salisbury, replying to a letter on November 27th, in which the writer points out that during the past ten years the country has spent £50,000,---000 on imported wheat and flour, and that the import of flour instead of wheat had resulted in a loss of £10,000,000, promises to consider the writer's suggestion regarding the payment of a bounty to wheat growers, and the admission of wheat while a duty is planned for imported flour. A recent suit which a girl waiter, aged eighteen, brought against the proprietor of a London coffee tavern for wrongful dismissal, developed the fact that waitresses worked twenty hours out of the twenty-four for 12s a month, and were glad to get it, as many hundreds were ready to iill their places if vacancies occurred. A curious statement was made in London, on December 7th, that the Japanese Government had ordered 18,000 cheap watches from firms iv Switzerland with the intention of presenting them instead of medals to the soldiers engaged in the war against China. Mr Jerome K. Jerome, the author, has been agitating recently in London the question of child insurance, and is led to endorse the startling statement that 28 per cent of insured children who dip are deliberately murdered or starved to death by their parents. Mr Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies,|has attained such a great addition to his political power that his enemies are bothered considerably- Mr and Mrs Chamberlain are now visiting some of the most exclusive houses in England. The steamer Monowai was detained a day owing to the lateness of the English mail. The steamer carries the largest Cargo of merchandise ever shipped from San Francisco to the colonies. She has on board more than 2000 tons of freight in weight and measurement. The trade between San Franoisco and the Antipodes has been steadily inoreasing for some time past, and every steamer leaviu» here during the next six months will bo°loaded to its utmost capacity. In the winter of 1896-97, Australia is to have auother invasion of American baseball players, similar to the trip taken by tho team under the management of Spalding several years ago. At bhe head of the inaoageraeat will be Mr James H. Mauning, manager of the Kansas City Baseball Club.