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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 39, 16 January 1885, Page 2

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AMERICAN SUMMARY. ■ Sax Francisco, 1 Dec, i Despatches to the i,4th of December,; state that great agitktion -is 'taorain^ swiftly to the front m England on a grave Issue". The agriculturalists are • J nAiking a strong demand for general reductions of farm rents. The ' Cobden Glub recognises the danger of the agitation, and is working hard to meet it. ] After a fire m the parcel., pffice of the . Windsor railway station was extinguish- . Ed, on "December 21, brass clock wheels of American manufacture and a bottle Xsi>ntainrng suspicious material explosives were found among the ruins. The room adjoined, a covered way over which the Queen passed on the Wednesday proceeding, when she started for Osborne* The managers of the Great Western assert that the fire was purely accidental siud not due to any foreign agency; They also -say the ill* smelling liquid m the. Dottle was simply horse medicine, i The Skye Crofter^, publicly announced on December 7th that they will not pay rent till the amount is reduced, declaring they are "unable to pay the sum demanded, tKrough poverty, : resulting iroui; excessive rents. .They have heretofore been forced to pay on the |7th. The officers who attempted to servej the < wrfts>were driven" back. . • t ''.'' \ * Cobden Club recently ordered to" be printed a million copies of leaflets and pamphlets on the subject of free trade. ' „. Four hundred .and ninety ( -nine cmi- - grauts'left : ihe British Isles for the Unit;. titartng-aiermonflorot Sevef«4 &st steamers were loading W ; London and Liverpool on Dec. the 6th, flstonfeibiy/ .for ;ohina, i but • really .) yith hardly a disguiseid intention of defying the present blockade of Formosa byj the' French fleet. The Government isjapttrised. ;r , „ lf ( , „ ,••.,.•■'■.*-; "' ' IfcVwas reported on December 7th that smallpox was oh the m'creasein Lonjlon* 1 The hospitals were crowded with patients. In Leicester there was a serious but'f break, cause by the members of the Antif yjaccinatibk''..obciety}!dbfying the -law which makes vaccination compulsosy*. ; Miss. . Forfcescufy . tjie.- across who; re- ; cently'rec'overea '^lo,ooo from Lord:, Garmoyle, for breach of promise, has again become engaged to Harry Quilter, *.ft bank clerk and musical critic, whom,, she jilted for Ijiord -Cairn's son. It ' is also stated that after a tour of the provinces this actress will go to Americq,. Accoirding to a despatch from Lonflon, of Dee. 22, Lady Archibald Campbell, proposes to embrace the_ stage as a profession. " '- -' v A London paper of the 18th Dec. isug.gipsts, by way of reprisal for the, insult to England m a German book, that all grants of pensions be withdrawn from, families of German ' extraction, which includes the Queen and a large nunlbe'r oi her relatives, and millions would thus he savetl to be devoted «to< the improvement of the British Navy,- m view, of the pjros'pect that'll may become necessary some day- to administer ■ a salutary thrashing to German^. ' ; • ■■; c, -.:..' : , : ' IRISH AFFAIRS. Dec ß. ; »i .l^ie" Corporation 'of Dublin," by a i vote of 8! to 12, ' resolved to 1 change the 'name of Sackville to O'Gonriell street.' '■' A deputation of tradesmen appeared to protest.against their action. Mr Sjiillivan, M.J?., told them they were opposing the wish of the^lrish people. This was' con- Istruefl.as a threat to bybott^'them.. The traclesmen are 'raising "funds' tp test the i} legality of the 'corporation's' fecti j ;i1 ..; ' •' -There will be" a ; large meeifiig^pf Orangemen at JBelfestron January sth, •on the occasion of the Wycliffe quincen-"' . Jiflnary, ; which will be ce^epra^ed throughout the l^orth of Ireland. '' 'j , The-|ihircl case, that of James JSllis, Frehcn director'' of the Detective Department of. the. Royal; Irish Constabulary, for scandalous offences m conndction with the Cornwall case, resulted!, on December 39th, m hib conviction.l He was sentenced to" two; years', imprisonment, An effort is to be made m America to raise 10,000 dollars a yela.rj.to pay the ' Irish Nationalist members of the [English Parliament. The Hawaiian reciprocity treaty was signed ' at Washington' 'm Deceinfieri-' Secretary Freeling acting for the United SjjatGs'Govefhnienfc, and Mr Carter represeqting the Sandwich Islands, A petition of four thousand words was telei-1 •gi'aphed- by business, mjn. from San Francisco to Washington asking th^ajJi^e,-, •.itwaty. be,Bigned> „■ > = .^ --, j: ;,- i 1,',,, v A body of American ofificers and men= . v b.ay,e been s^nt fcp Nicaragua |q r survey -tha proposed canal. '' ' ! - ' Brakd Streets, . pf ;Deoftnibw. ; 80fcb, } says:— Thpre arc- now 816,000* njanu-. fa^turingf'oporatiyes-diitbf work; |n the United ■ States from the 1 BJuittinsj down,of the establißhments> Thia^la per cent, of the whole number- euapjoj^ed^ four years ago. "" ■ ' '"'■'' • ' ,' *; 5 „ Captain 'Pjm?, 8.N., and lately^ MiPv for ' Gravesend, arrived ; at Cbic^gd on the. 14th December. 1 Froni ldokirig over the cattle ranches of the west ho: has on foot a plan -for building a rail-road from ■ Cheyann6, to Hudson; |}ay lotf the teanspprtatipn.o^c4%,to.England. jlj ] ■;•, fHijip pfjScers of tHe.mcommg, steamers" at . pn Pj^peniber; 4th, report; the-tripitb 7 1$ "the rqiigljeaiknovcn for years.' 1 Heavy Storms '^^ Httrricanes! were encountered off the coast of New'foundlandv •'; ... • ..: k; ■■:■. ■■■;. .■(■'■'!" - '" " h-; :It is now proposed that the., ; Rev*':Hv Ward Bjejphar, succeeds James. Russell . LQwelJ. as ;&meripi*n . Minister &• ■ the,. Court b'f St. j James, " '."■ , '■' ' •' A ' Michael William Balfe, ' soiil of the Irish composer, was arrested m New York on Novemder 27th for assaulting a woman., Balfe earnshis living by" gas- " ntting> ■-■* - l '■■■ ■ ■ • ' ! ; .fame's defeat for tbe. Eresiqency has co'si; Jay Gould a coormillioh of money. inlpstbetß._ j '' " Truth, a New~York journal noted forthe money letter fraud on the GarnelcT . campaign, has suspended. ' . yanderbiltj" thb/naillionarie, tiled a judgment' against ex-President Grant on the Bth December for- 155,000 tlollars. .Grant is nearly reduced to penury, and President Arthur recmnmeds'that he be pensioned by the Government. Another aggressive religious^organisation, similar to the Salvation Army, and called the Pacific Coast Holiness As- . sociation, : has been startett m San Fran? cisco. The Adelphi Theatre 'has been leased for a meeting place; They claim purity, pf life and conduct! The President-elect, Cleveland, insists that the inauguration, ceremoniejs must fee as simple,, brief, and as plain 'as pos/ : sible.- The Democratic ■ party leaders, on the contiaryj thinlt ' that under the , circumstances the most . ostentatious parade possible \vouldbe justified. . The, proposal ,of reciprocity of tra^e ' between Canada and the Unite 4 States .isibeing .freely disevjsaed. The, fishing interests m New England resist 'the free admision of British cau»ht fish into American markets. ( ' : V'"' >( Fred, Archer, the' Eiigh'sh jpck^y;,i ar- 1 rived at New York on December' 4th. 1 He telt 90 low spirited! .and home sick' on ; laft^ng that fee was ,w|th. difijmflt-y prevented.ft!pm returning to England by the next trip of 'the steamer. * • ; The Ameripan, Government -have con? cltidfeu" » tr^a,^ ' wijih "the Jj^puhUp of Nicaragua for the constructiQn. by^ the United States of a railway aftd telegraph wire across the Isthqiiis. The canal route lies between, Grpytown, iqn tb.e Atldntip, and Port San Juanlon'^he 1 Atlantift^lt said $wt irqna York |>Q §an Franois^cp by tlji^ rpute for BftUms Ye§.99U ft§ to© is lessened by

rightetl, got out of their prison, when they fjuud the captain and three Men who had been on deck were gone. The mast was broken, and the vessel was v entirely under water'.. excepting .thV stemhead, to which the four men clung all night. In the morning .one pfthem was washed away. In the evening one man became delirious, sind began to laugh and sing. On«« more night. passed without help j hut ! next day, when all were on the point ' ! or exhaustion, the General Wolselejr jcanie to their succour. AJthuogh a "veryliigbT sea still ran, four of her crew volunteered to man the boat, and after great perils succeeded m getting two of the Datchmem; .^nr i? board, but the third, who had been <le-' ! lu-ious h'om the previous evening,! said he wanted to up and tell his sfeven j drowned mates below. He wasjpre- {. vented: from throwing •-•■ himself linto the sea, but refused to get J intoj the boat. The mate of t.he Grimsby smack 'went upon the wreck and tied- round the man's waist a rope with when au attempt was made to draw him into .the boat, but as ho clung teqpcioxisly to. the wreck tlie rope was let go for the purpose of trying other means. No sooner did -he find himself released ; than -he laughed wildly, atid letting .go his hold sank beneath the wa^es.