'Frisco Mail Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 236, 10 April 1896, Page 2

'Frisco Mail Items.

A Bill has been prepared by the Local Government Board to modify the law so as to permit the use of horseless carriages. The conductorship of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society, held for some years past by Sir Charles Halle, was offered to Mr F. H. Cowen, and is said to have been accepted by him. The Portuguese Cortes has passed a Bill for the suppression of Anarchism. The Head of the Censorship in Russia has instructed the Directors of the Press not to publish any statement calculated | to encourage the idea that the Govern- | ment is meditating reforms and modifications of a liberal character in its ad Quite a trade is springing up in the sale of Jordan water for baptismal purposes. The water is sent over to this and other countries in tin bottles, ministrrtiou regime. The Politique Coloniale, of Paris, says the Queen of Madagascar has contracted a morganatic marriage with Paul Ratsimhaha, a young Hova of noble birth. Captain Lugard will very shortly leave England for Ngamiland to take charge of an expedition, the object of wlv'ch is to open up the country and develop its recources for British trade. The territories of Moutsioa and Tkanuing, in Bechuanaland, have been withdrawn from the British South Africa Company and placed again under the direct administration of the High Commissioner.