F'risco Mail News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 273, 23 May 1896, Page 2

Frisco Mail News.

(Per Mariposa at Auckland). ! According to the London Iron and ; Steel Journal, and the Iron Age, the | British tin plate trade with America is dwindling away. The United States j took only 6, 980 ton 3in February, 1896, j as against 23,261 in the same month f of 1895. The tin-plate industry in the United States is displacing the British trade, and it has come to stay. The report is confirmed that Mr Wm. Waldorf Astor is engaged to be married to Lady Randolph Churchill during the fall. Matt Adams, of Denver, Col,, an embezzler of 41,000 dollars fleeing from justice, is now in prison in London, pending the arrival of the papers in his case from the United States. He was on his way to Capetown with his wife and servants, but they have been returned home with money taken from the fugitive's person (£150) to pay their fare. The British Admiralty has given orders for the construction of 20 new torpedo boats. The reports concerning the Queen's health are to the effect that she is daily becoaiing more feeble, and will not be seen at any State function this season. The sale of the pneumatic tyre patent business was arranged in Dublin on Monday, April 12tb, the syndicate agreeing to pay 16,000,000 dollars for it, and the business is now offered to the public for 25,000,000d01s capital. The former shareholders, who paid altogether 1,300,000d015, have since received 3,200,000d01s in dividends and premiums, and they will now receive another 14,437,500d015. The profit in 1895 amounted to 1,540,000 dollars. The latest far-away orders for bicycles received in London from the Ameer of Afghanistan, who has sent for a lot of English machines for the use of the ladies of his harem. Liffnrann, a French investigator, explained to a brilliant audience at the London Royal Institute, on April 18th, his method of photograping in colors, besides exhibiting several pictures. The photographic plates must be held at a certain angle in order to see the chromatic effects. London correspondents are commenting upon the lukewarm feeling between the Prince and Princess of Wales, as neither the Prince or Princess met each other at the railway station on arriving from abroad. A rumoured plot to steal the Crown jewels in the Tower has caused nnusual precautions to be| taken to guard the regalia.