THE ENGLISH MAIDL (VIA SAN FRANCISCO.)

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 428, 14 December 1889, Page 5

THE ENGLISH MAIDL (VIA SAN FRANCISCO.)

The Swiss Government has apologised to the United States for arresting and imprisoning five Americans in Bern* to August fast, on suspicion of their being pickpockets, offering reasonable damages, if demanded. The Vatican decline to publish documents relating to the Italian Government as threatened, hearing that the latter were preparing to make reprisals in the same form. One thousand ship carpenters at Hamburg have strode for better winter pay. The masters are inclined to accede to their demands, provided the men will work the same number of hours as in summer, which proposition appears to be about as broad as it is long. Russia has adopted the Label rifle and smokeless powder for her army. United States steamer Pensacola, with Professor Todd and the astronomical party to observe the solar eclipse in Sierra Leone, arrived at Porte Grande, St. Vincent, Cape de Verdes, on November 10th. Ifc is expected that an American legation to the Vatican will soon be formed. The "Ivet," of St. P*tersburg, says (November 9th) that China is arming her troope on the Russian frontier with repeating rifles, and that her soldiers are being drilled by German officers. The Grand Duke Nicholas, uncle of the Czar, is slowly dying from a cancerous formation in the ear. Dispatches up to Novembor 11 from South Africa report a famine as the result of drought throughout the Transvaal. The situation ab Johannesburg is critical, and breadstuffs were selling at famine prices. At Natal, Government had offered a bonus of «1,000 for the first 50 waggons of provisions starting for Johannisburg, and all tariffs on articles of food had been abolished. Mrs Langtry, the English actress, has engaged the St. James Theatre, London, for a year from January next, when she will open with " 'Twixt Axe and Crown." She is at present playing in the provinces, and it is more than probable «she has bidden good-bye to the United States.

A BIT OF SCANDAL. The marriage of the Prince of Hatzfeldt | and Miss Clara Huntingdon, daughter of the Califotnian railway millionaire, in London, November 2nd, was very quiet. This prevented an unpleasant scene at the church. jVldlle. A. came over from Paris with a male protector tor the time being for the purpose of making a row during the ceremony, but arrived too late. She afterwards notified Huntingdon that his princely son-in-law had borrowed her money, and vowed vengeance if it be not forthcoming. Hatzfeldtadmittod former relations with the woman, but denied the loan. Mdlle.A. is one of three sisters,daughters of a French officer, who were all driven by necessity into a questionable life. Later dispatches say the alliance with Hatzfeldt has cost Huntington, for his son-in-law's debts so far, a clear £2,000,000, "with more countries to hear from." The married couple will live in New York, where a palatial dwelling ia being erected for their use.

THE CALDVVELL-MUKAT MARRIAGE OJbT. Paris "Figaro," of October 30bb, says Prince Murat left the city the day pre* ceding, and Miss Oaldwell, his late fiancee, would speedily depart for New York. Prince Murat and the rich American girl are quits according to that paper. At their meeting on Friday, October 25th, at Miss Caldwell's hotel, the notary announced that the bride only allowed her lover an income of $10,000 a year, with reversion afler death to her sitter. The Prince heard the notary read this clause, and then asked Miss Caldwoll its meaning. She, answered, •' I have managed my own fortune, and will continue to do so. ( You have shown you do not know how to manage money." Murat then became angry, and, said, " Madame, I am nob a - beggar," and walked out of the room. There is a faint hope entertained that the parties may be brought together again. Miss Caldwell's trousseau is said, to be the laughing stock of Paris j , $very article beqvq an eW broidered crown, ' i