ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 134, 6 May 1884, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, May 5. The Zealandia arrived at 7.30 o'clock last night. She left San Francisco on April 14 and passed the City of Sydney on April 17. She left for Sydney at 1 o'clock this morning. The Southern mails were sent by special train at midnight, and the Wanaka sails at daylight from Onehunga. General Summary, Mr Gladstone's family urge him strongly to accept a peerage without delay, and retire from active duty. The secretary of the London Corn Exchange reports on April 8 :—Enormous stocks of wheat, barley, and maize m London ; 424,000 quarters more wheat and 100,000 less oats than last year. Miss Mary Anderson, American ► actress m London, has been sued for noj; playing on Saturday evening, April sth, the day of Princo Leopold's funeral. , The author of the libel for which Yates was sentenced to gaol is Lady Stradbroke, a relative of Earl Lons-d-.ile. There was a very stormy scene at the annual meeting of the Cunard Company. No dividend was declared. In the University boat race, Oxford, at the laat, went all to pieces*. Cambridge finished nearly three lengths ahead. Time — 2imin 29-sec. A parly of Australians who arrived at San Francisco by the Zealandia on March 23, met with a serious accident ou the Denver and Rio Graude railway on April 1. The sleeping car was thrown off the track m going round a curve. Several of the injured declare their intention of bringing heavy damages against the company. > The Wool Tariff Bill has been de- 1 feated m the American Legislature.