FRISCO MAIL SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 91, 12 March 1884, Page 2

FRISCO MAIL SUMMARY.

LosDoy, February IG. Moody began his mission at Strat-ford-Le-Bow, on January 23, and, notwithstanding a hurricane which prevailed, 6000 people were present. The Queen's " More Leaves from a Journal of my Life m the .Highlands" is announced by Smith, Elder, aud Co. The Royal authoress, despite entreaties by her friends, lias retained most of the John Brown passages. The Times of February 3 states the British army was never more than adequate for the work it has to do, and. the occupation of Egypt is a severe strain upon the ordinary military arrangements. The importance of improving the defences may be judgeid from the fact that the property <if Liverpool alone, whic_h a hostile fleet might .destroy*- is' estimated at £400,000,000. I Despatches from Londpn to February 12 th say there are symptoms of trouble m Hyderabad, The new ruler is not yet eighteen, and is an impassvvie voluptuary. The new Premier is mjt twenty, but is haughty^tid indiscreet, while the turbulent nobles liave began to fight among themselves. Mr Grindstone was th 6 subject of an unpleasant surprise on' the afternoon of. February 1 4 lh. He was walking aldng Bond-street unattended on his way to the House of Commons, when suddenly a man seized him by the collar, and brought him to a standstill. Mr Gladstone, with some difficulty, shook off his assailant, and continued on foot to his destination. It was asserted later tliat the man's action was due. to a stupid wager, A London despatch of January 24 says Messrs Young and Lark, Australian merchants, of lhat city, have asked for an extension of time." Their debts are £280,000, and 'their assets £420,000. ' ; . ; lord Norrey's stud stables; , near Oxford, England, were ; burned on Jan. 23, together with fourteen valuable horses, Sir Bevys, the winner of the Derby m 1879, was saved. During Baker Pasha's route, Mr Scudamore, the correspondent of the London Times, met an exhauistcia'-'Eng-lish officer. He gave, him his horse and the officer immediately^ 'galloped ' away, leaving the cot respondent m ins- . jninent danger- .0f.. lus.Uife^-JEiaally another officer named Maxwell took Scudamore behind him on his horse. James Hunter, the millionaire lumberman, has died, bequeathing 5000dol to each of the American humorists who have published a book.

The discovery of a valuable tin mine m North Carolina, the first m .the United States, is reported. '^. The United State's Government iire fitting -out rthe whaler Thetis for iihe Q-reeley 'Arctic relief expedition. A peculiar and fatal disease is devastating Montana. The sheep swell up and bleed at the nose. . The postmortem examination shows an extravasation of blood m the intestines. The disease is jcpn^rd.ered' incurable, A' sridrlan' collapse. 'of thV-'lWth Pacific railroad itock has reduced the projector, Mr"7ii|ard, to. poverty. Civil suits are pending against • .two of the proniihent New .York banks for $8,000,000 damages, for inducing capitalists by^.fra'udulent representatiqns to invest heavily while they unload their stocks. Tln'oughan explosion of gas m the Crested Butie coal mines, near Denver, Colorailo, forty to fifty miners perished. The inquest showed thut the accident arose through Ihe minera not observing" the safety rules. ""'-."' The xjJobden ; Club has circulated 20,000 copies of ia pamphlet by Giffea, entitled ''Progress. of the. -working (?) classes," wliich Mr .; G-lad|tpne pronouncedlhe best answer to-the doctrines advanced by Henry Greorg-e. '