ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 230, 26 August 1884, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

General Summary.

London, August 1. The Contagious Diseases Bill passed its third reading m the House of Lords on Ist. O'Brien, of Dublin United Ireland, has flatly refused td pay £3050 awarded as damages to Balton m his suit for libel against that paper, O' Brien's reply to the demand for payment was, " I will not pay a farthing. The award is preposterous ; it violate! all common sense.'' It i» reported from Cardiff, on Isfe, that a man died of oholera on the steamer Graville, the body was thrown overboard. A not her case occurred oa board the vessel at date. . > . The son of the British Vice-Consiat at Kodisto, has been captured by Brigands, who demand £1000 ransom. j Charles Money Penny, a linen manufacturer at Belfast, was found,' on the night of July 25, m a carriage train between Paris and Brussels, with his brains blown out. It is supposed he has been murdered. King Oscar, of Sweden, visited Loudou incog, at the time of the aunnal conference of the Conservative National Union held at Sheffield oh : July 23. A thousand delegates were pre ent. Ireland won the Rlcho shield rifle : match at Wimbledon. The scores were rlreland, 1583 ; Scotland, 1476 : England, 1774. Deerstalkers, a gillie, and laborers on the estate of the American million* aire VTinnams, near Iveraess, Scotland, engaged m a terrible fight, when the gillie, named Campbell, killed a laborer named McGillivray. Campboll was arrested. Dr Caesar Henry Hawkins, surgeon to the Queen, is dead. Henry M. Stanley, the African ex- 1 plorer, and lately director of the African International Association work m the Congo country, has arrived m England. % The condition of the Thames m view of (he cholera m France excites alarm m London, The deputation introduced by the Marquis of Lome recently waited on Lord Carlington m favor of the importation of healthy cattle from Jbhe Western States of America through Canada. Two robberies at Windsor Castle . had created some talk, but particulars are not givea. Clark, who U Brown's successor m attendance on the Queen, was the victim ot one of them. The recent fete for the London hospitals was participated m by the leading members of London aristocratic society. Princesses and Countesses abounded as saleswomen. The Prince and Princess of Wales t were almost trampled down m the enthusiasm of their welcome. /.' Lord Roseberry unvoiled the statue of Eobert Barns on the Thames embankment July 25. Plague had made its appearance at Kars and other stations m the Caucasus. Eight hundred persons died at Betra during May. Moslems m the Caucasus are interdicted from making pilgrimages. Russia and Germany have adopted a treaty against Anarchists. In future, Russians will not he allowed to reside m Germany without permission from the Russian Government. * Cholera has caused over 2000 deaths m France. There is a great punic on the Continent, and tourists are fleeing. - •■■