’FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1043, 14 December 1882, Page 3

’FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

On Monday last the Zealaudia arrived at Auckland with the ’Frisco mail. The following is a summary of intelligence ; Mrs Melville, wife of the engineer of the Arctic exploring ship Jeannette, who went insane on seeing her husband, has been restored to health and reason.

Mr Brad laugh went to the House of Commons on the afternoon of the loth to try and take his seat. He had a brief personal consultation with the Speaker, and was informed by him that the order of expulsion was still in force. He then withdrew without making any further effort.

The great firm of Sir Win, Armstrong and Co., ordnance makers, and Mitchell and Co., shipbuilders, have been amalgamated, and will eslablish works on the river Tyne, with a capital of £2,000,000. An explosion of dynamite which occurred in the works at Biory port, Wales, on the morning of November 17th, killed three girls and two men and wounded several others.

Companies who are promoting a scheme for the Channel tunnel have renewed their applications to Parliament, accompanied by fresh plans. Letters from Ireland, dated November 10th, state that a famine is impending in Counties of Donegal, Clare and Roscommon. The potato crop is a failure, while storms have devastated the fields and cabins of the poor. The guardians of the "WorthOtises declare the prospect is the worst since the famine of 183 G. Mr Gladstone proposes to introduce a fresh scheme for In'ph legislation into Parliament to still further develope the provisions of Land Act in the direction of a peasant proprietory, the extension of the franchise, and a scheme for local selfgovernment. A party of forty'’ armed men attacked the house of Mr Redmond Roach, the Magistrate at Maguar Castle, Ireland, on the night of the 16th November, firing several shots, demanding admission, and carrying away two guns. During the twenty-four hours ending Oct. 29th incessant rain prevailed in several parts of England. Large areas of country were flooded, bridges swept away railways blocked, and in some counties only the roofs of farm houses were to be seen. The flood along the Thames valley was very serious, and immense loss and suffering has been caused.

Several further subscriptions for the Jewish relief fund from New Zealand are acknowledged by the Mansion House Cotnmiltee. Among them is £261 from Geraldine, £2OO from Christchurch, £6O from Wellington, and £sl from Hokitika. The list is now being closed. In all £100,755 has been received and £9-1,144 expended.

Atbalia Gilchrist, a member of tbe Salvation Army, who recently arrived in New York from England, confessed in Court that she had three husbands.

Turkie, a flourishing town in California, has been destroyed by fire. Walter J. Duval, an Englishman by birth, end druggist by profe sion, committed suicide in Portland, Oregon. He arrivedjtbere from Melbourne three years ago. No reason for tbe act is assigned.

The Palestine Colonisation and Christian Missionary Association, incorporated in Boston, has been formed for the purpose of colonising Palestine with industrious and energetic Christians.

Mrs Seoville. sister of the assassin Q-uiteau, has been adjudged insane by a Chicago Court, and immediately after disappeared. It is supposed she fled to Canada.

The Kussian Government has issued an order forbidding the exportation of horses. This is aimed at Germany, as the cavalry mounts of the latter country are generally procured from Hussia. Nihilism is rampart again in the Czar’s flflininiong. On the Ist November the police broke up a meeting of 200 members of a secret society being held at Pultorva. The ■organ of the Nihilists has declared that Tevoiutiou is imminent.

Largs fires have been so frequent in .Russia iiihat nearly all insurance companies have fallen back on their reserve funds, and premiums have been raised forty per cent. The Grer^ nari ’ a ' sa il e d last summer for Cumberland Sound with tho German Arctic expedition, retted to Hamburg on the 25th October. She reports several houses had been built, and everything left i Q readi ‘ ness for continuing explorations.

The Herman Minister of War has made known his decision to extend the Herman forts and sunken fortifications on the Baltic coast. Mew armed forts, with heavy batteries, will be constructed near Pillau and Memel. Everything indicates that the Herman Hovernment realises the presence of a great and

growing danger. According to despatches received in London on 3rd, the King of Corea had issued aR edict declaring that disorders in his dominion, were evidently due to his own maladministeration of Havernment affairs, and therefore oral’s all insurgents captured to be released. He wants to make himself solid with his people, in order to resist the attempts of China or Japan fce annex the country. Revolutionary placards of Communistic origin are being posted all over Paris, and explosive materials are frequently discovered. Placards threatening Qeneraf McMahon’s life have been placed on his residence. The placards posted up bore evidence of having been prepared by educated revolutionists.

The Paris workmen commenced on the 31st to boyeot the firms and employers who refused to raise the wages of their workmen. The Porte has refused the British Government permission io establish a coal depot at Afin.in the province of Yemen. The French Press is discussing with much warmth the situation in Tunis. Some journals protest against its annexation ns it will afford an excuse to England to acquire Egypt.

Archbishop Croke, of Ireland is to be summoned to Rome in the course of the •winter to confer with the Pope on Irish affairs. The German Government has devoted 100,000 dollars to defray the expenses of exploring the wilds of Central Africa. A Berlin despatch, dated November 2nd, says there is an equipped Russian camp on the right bank of the river Bug. The Russian military forces girs ouc in an open manner the way in which these preparations are being conducted. It is creating the utmost uneasiness amongst all (lasses of society. Germany is fortifiieg a'l territory contiguous to the frontier and the armaments ol countries arc now nearly completed. jW " j