FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1044, 16 December 1882, Page 4

FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

The following items of news by the '.Frisco Mail were crowded out of our last issue : Twenty-five anarchists (three foreigners being among' the number) were arrested at Lyon on November 18th. They were charged' with fomenting strikes among the workmen and obtaining a general division of property and destroying the sentiments of patriotism among the people. Fears of an Austro-Ilussian war have abated. According to a. despatch from "Vienna, the individual who excited them by an accidental remark is not an official personage, and his utterances are not rsregarded as authoritative. The Marquis of Queensbury's sister, Lady Gertrude Douglas, has scandalised London society by marrying her baker. Her ladyship is well up in years and the baker is 21. The affair was made public on the 18th November. Mr Parnell's action in evicting tenants from, his estates Councy "Wicklow has caused some comment. They were in arears to the extent of £9OOO. It is reported that 300 people on Tory Island are without food, and other portions of Wertern Ireland are threatened with starvation. General Sir Garnet Wolsely, on landing at Dover from Egypt, was most enthusiastically welcomed. Patrick Joyce, one of those charged with the murder of the Joyce family, was found guilty on the loth November, and will be hauged on December 15th. On the 18th Miles Joyce was arraigned for the murder of Mrs Joyce and was also convicted and sentenced to death. He was a first cousin to the man Joyce, who was murdered. Patrick Casey was also convicted of being concerned in the murder of the family and was sentenced to be hanged on December 18th. Earl Granville instructed the British Ambassador at Madrid od November Ist to ask the Spanish Government to return General Maceo and two other Cuban refugees surrendered by the Police Magistrate at Gibraltar wi'hout proper sanction. lhe Spanish Government refused, on the ground that the prisoners, on landing at Gibralter were put outsido the British lines through a mistake of the Police Magistrate, and were immediately arrested by the Spanish authorities. They were not, and had not been, in English jurisdiction. Michael Davitt, in a recent speech at Aberdeen, urged Scotch farmers to demand a decrease in their rents. He said they should claim the right to have an independent tribunal to arbitrate between them and their landlords, for he thought it possible to have conceded to Scotland the same right already granted to England. The face of Professor Palmer, Captain Palmer and Lieut. Charniington has been acertaiued. According to a despatch from Colonel Warren, dated Alexandria, October 16th, the whole party were ordered to be killed by the ••Governor of a town in Upper Egypt. They were led to the edge of a precipice, and offered the alternative of throwing themselves over or being shot. It is supposed that Professor Palmer leaped off. and Gill and Charniington choose the other alternative.