'FRISCO MAIL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 129, 6 May 1885, Page 2

'FRISCO MAIL.

GENERAL SUMMARY. San Francisco, April 12. It is claimed that at the next Parliamentary election a large majority of Liberals will retire m favor of Lord Harrington. Martin Tupper is reduced to pdverty. Ho writes from. England that after seventy - five years of literary work his present financial result is nil. Tho council of the National Rifle Association of Britain have decided that m consequence of the very unsettled state of affairs m England, they are not justified m accepting the challenge of the National Rifle Association of the United States of America to an international contest m 1885 at Creek Moor. Sarah Bernhardt is rapidly declining m health. Marshall Bazoine is reported penniless at Madrid. The Russian Government are taking active steps to place the navy on a better war footing. A number of cruisers and torpedo rams are being rapidly fitted out. An attempt was made on April 10 to assassinate Governor Hoadley, of Ohio, by a dynamite infernal machine. Professor Miller's challenge to meet Sullivan, the American slogger, m the ring m four months, causes some excitement amongst sporting men m that city. Sullivan is required to send 500 dollars Jto the New York Clipper Office to pay Professsor Miller's expenses from Australia. A Woman Suffrage Bill has been thrown out of the new Government Legislature. Mrs Dudley's counsel has applied to have a commission sent to England to take testimony tending to show that she was insane, and not responsible for the shooting of Rossa. The motion was granted. O'Donovan Rossa's paper, March 31st, advises the assassination of the Prince of Wales when he will visit Ireland. An Anglo - Russian Company has started to compete with the Americans and Australians m furnishing England with meat. The Gould transatlantic cables and the Bennet-Mackay Company are engaged m a war of rates. It opened with a rate of sixpence a word. Zebehr Pasha, conspirator and traitor, was landed at Gibraltar on March 30th. It is now asserted by a correspondent at Vienna that the Zebehr sent to Khartoum a Nubean servant who betrayed and killed General Gordon. His motive was revenge for the hanging of his son by the General. Arab deserters assert that if General Graham will offer sufficient reward, the sheikhs are ready to deliver Osman Digna as a prisoner. One hundred immigrants are booked for the Aorangi, to sail on May 9. The Ameer having expressed a desire to visit England, Lord Dufferin, at the request of the Cabinet, has invited him to London as the guest of the Crown. There is an uneasy feeling among military circles m England, as the armies of the Indian Princes are filled with ardor, and may take to fighting each other. The British Garrisons numerically are insignificant, and they would have thenhands full m the event of a conflict between any two of the leading potentates.