ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 278, 21 October 1884, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

(Per s.s. Zealaudia.) JU>ITKD PKESS ASSOCIATION.) English Summary. fc>AX FIIANCfSCO, 26. A piece of plate and a purse of gold Were given to Captain Jones, of the Greelej relief ship Loch Garry, at London. Eastbourne, the famous Sussex watering place, is crowded with Americans, scared by the cholera from tin- Continent. The British gunboat Wasp foundered ott Tory Island, on the north-west coast of Ireland on September 23. .Fifty-two men, including all the otiicbrs, were drowned. Only six persons were saved by clinging to the wreckage. The vessel struck at; three o'clock m the inomius; during a haze. The new steamer for the Canard line, the Etruria, was launched m Glasgow on September 22. A great banquet followed the launching of the vessel, which is Jbuilt to be the fastest steamer afloat. ; According- to a despatch to the New York.- Morning News^ dated Loiidon, September 24. The; correspondent of a well -known American newspaper hud . . eloped . from : London i wi th the young wife- of an English nobleman, and it. is believed that they have taken passage for the Australian colonies. The curious part of the affair is that the journalist is old enough to be the lather of the lady. The liatnes are not made public , „ A furnished house m Hampshire has just been taken for the Tich bourne claimant who will soon be released. Air nmple> allowance has been .subscribed for himself and his two daughters. It is said the Duke and Duchess ol Oonnaught will visit the United; Stata-^ next year, returning from India by ; Way of California. t Latest despatches nay the price of bread is much discUH!?ed m England' and Ireland, the public complaining that though wheat never reaches 40s •per quarter, and barely not above 35a, the price of bread remains exactly the .same as ; when the price of wheat was ten shiliirig-a higher. \ '■■■ It is not expected that the infant Duke of Albany will survive the winter.. ... ... ; Parliament will toe asked at its coming cession to make provision for. the eldest son of the Prince of Wate& . , ; An English Church paper savagely attacked. General Wolsely and Lord Northbrook for starting on their Egyptian mission on a Sunday.. ; Queen Victoria is at Balmoral for the. autumn. She, is said, to be m an extremely gloomy .state ofc mind,! and visits John Brown's ,gi aye dai ly. Over 3000 people at Leicester were recently summoned for delving r.be vacciuation laws, the feeling against' which isyihcrediby bitter all over' England". \ ■ ,'' ''■ Rev, Mr Trackletpn,, a Presbyte^ rian clergyman of Tullambre, has brought » suit Jfor ,£60,000, and iMrs Brown for £ 25,000, against the* Dub-' lin Freeman's Journal for damages. The Journal printed an article m its' columns stating that the clerg-ymau had eloped, .with ■ Mrs , Brown to ; Paris. : A fund will shortly be started, at the suggestion of the United Ireland newspaper^ on behalf of the Birmingham dynamitards, Daly and Egan. I : Fifteen thousand persons attended the funeral of Duggan, at Dublin, on September 14. Among them weie O?Bnen and.Davitt. - ' ' : j Admiral Gourbebt; * commanding .the French naval force m China, is .claimed to be ari Irifeh man^ his father ibeing>a. Cotk man ; who on emigrating to Fi'auce added " v" to the original name of Corbet. ; At a meeting of the National League^ at ; Ballinasloe,. on September 21, J. : M. Kenny, M.P. for Ennis, declared that Ireland >■ would never' be contented until she was free. Parnell was cheered as the future Premier ot Ireland. 1 <" ••' In a rowing match at Southampton on September 17, for «fe6o. an eighteen oared crew beat by two minutes the cutters crew of the United States flagship Lancaster. The cutter's crew -'Handled fourteen oa"rs ' The Southhamjiton crew, although the Americans had <a "light lead at the start, were hoon ahead. The victois were wiuners by 200 yards. The time of tlie winning crew was 42inin i7aec. The betting Tat thn start was 3 to 1 on the' Americans. In the evening an j amateur club, entertained both , crew's. Bailey, coxswain . of ! the' -American ciitteiy said they were' ney er, . beaten • before. The cr,ew :of tlie Lancaster stood ready to back their cutter's crew. for, from £100 to .£IOOO against auy other boat m Edgi landj ; , -, /;, „ ... Mrs Weldon, won her own caso against Drs Wiuslbw and Temple for' illegally confining her m a lunatic asylum, is again beiore the London Courts m the various capacities* of plaintiff, defendant, and counseh Since her first success the lady is said ' to have become a monomaniac j on litigation. ' ,' " ( .' ! ■ ' A London despatch, dated Sepfeembev 24, says the lately divorced liady Cblin Campbell recently' applied to a leading riewspapet for the position of correspondent with the Egyptian Army. Being denied, she has sought retirement at the home of her mo'thet Mrs Edwin Maghlin Blood, m Ireland.