FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1053, 11 January 1883, Page 1

FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

The steamship City of Sydney, from 'Frisco, arrived at Auckland on Tuesday last. She brings the following items ot news : London, Dec. 18. Lord Derby, in the speech made at Manchester on the 13th, rejected the idea of a protectorate for Egypt. England, he said, ought not to remain in that country longer than was absolutely necessary to restore orler. English influence in Egypt must preponderate, but it was not necessary to exercise it in an offensive spirit, nor exclude free and friendly consultation with France. Referring to the altitude of France towards Madagascar, the speaker said : 'lf atyicable mediation would pievent the invasion of Madagascar we ought to offer our services, but if, as appears probable, the dispute is only a pretext for the annexation of part of the island, we ought to abstain from mediating.' In the Belt libel case, Alma and Adema, and other well-known artists were called. They expressed a strong opinion that the bust which Mr Belt had personally executed in the room adjoining the Court, and exhibited in the witness-box the day before as proof of his skill, was far inferior to any other bust from the same model which Mr Belt was alleged to have executed.

Five skaters were drowned in the Thames on December 12 th by the ice breaking. The thermometer registered 70 below zero. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Mr Whalley, M.P., on a charge of obtaining £65 by false pretences from a Peterborough publican. San Francisco, Dec. 10.

A contingent of twenty-two ostriches reached San Francisco from Capetown on thoLlth. They will be placed on an 800-acre ranclie. In the southern part ot the State, a speculation of an ostrich farm has been undertaken by Dr Protheroe, who went from E ngland to Capetown some years ago as a practising physician.

Advices from Panama say that cholera is raging fearfully at (Jhaipa, in Mexico. The owners of, and laborers on, the plantations, had perished in such numbers that it was impossible to bury the bodies, and they were burned. Sixty deaths occurred to day on the Tonola Vander Hill railroad.

Mrs Labouchere, who accompanied Mrs Langtry to America, has quarrelled with her over her flirtation with the gilded American youth, and in an interview with American reporters said she had had enough of the Jersey Lily's nonsense, and exposed the way the sensation of her arrival was worked up.

The general opinion is that Mrs Labouchere is piqued at the attention paid Mrs Langtry, of which she received a very scant share. The officers of the Bellevuc Medical College, Boston, have been arrested for systemetically issuing diplomas to persons grossly ignorant of the theory and practice of medicine, The Mormons are much pleased with President Arthur's Message, and say God has interposed in their behalf, The heads of the Church have returned to Salt Lake from a trip through the Southern Utah, where they had been preaching polygamy and urging members of the Church to take more wives. The Gentiles are astounded and dismayed that no mention of anticipated anti-Mormon legislation is made in the President's Message. ADDITIONAL. Baron de Lesseps has received English delegates, and in a speech to tliem declared he was confident the Panama Canal would be finished in 1888 The Prince of Wales has requested that Brookshaw, who was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude for sending him a threatening letter, may have his sentenced reduced.

Mr Justice O'Brien, speaking in Dublin, paid that owing to iucreasne! undetected offences, the trade of Dublin

was gradually decaying, and those able to do so are giving up their hi dness and fleeing from the city as though it was infected with the plague. It was reported to th? English Government on November 24th that a widespread distress was feared in Ireland this winter. The districts most affected are SSligo, Ballina, ftwineford, and Connaught. Remittances from America for the Land League show a falling off. Up to the 13th November the applications under the Arrears of Rent Act in Ireland had reached 14,167. A duel forced on a Captain Ernerick by a Court of Honor took place between himself and a Jew named Herr Meyer, at Marburg. Meyer killed Emerick. The use of the French language has been interdicted, by a vote in the German Reichstag of 153 to 119, in debates in the Provincial Parliament of Alsace and Lorraine. Mr.Pnrnell on the 12th December lodged an application m the Land Court for the sale of his property in County Wiclclow.

It is calculated that embezzlements and robberies, both private and official, in Russia during the year amount to 260,000,000 roubles.

The Czar of Russia proposes visiting Copenhagen, London, and possibly Paris, in spring. Speaking of the Channel Tunnel, M. Do Freycinet says the idea of a French invasion in connection with it is inadmissable, as the English would rise as one man 10 repel it. He asks moreover what hostile army would risk an an engagement in a hollow tube. The False Prophet has been repulsed in Upper Soudan.

Intelligence has been received in London that two American citizens have been murdered on tho West Coast of Madagascar, at a place to which the Madagascar Government is prevented, by French embargo, fiom sending a garrison at all. Lord Lyons has notified to France that England will not cousent to her forcing a protectorate at Madagascar. Relative to the report that the United States Government contemplates making claims against France in regard to the murder of two Amprican citizens at Madagascar, the Moiriteur publishes an insulting article declaring the American navy to be so reduced by speculation that it was recently obliged to ' back down' to Chili. France, the article says, could ruin every American port. The Prefect has ordered the police to expel all Jews residing within St. Petersburg without official permission. The Senate has decided that Jews are incapable of holding office in Russia. The Sultan of Turkey was completely terror-strickon en December 4th, on account of a report to assassinate him. He kept a guard in liis harem, and Mahomet Pasha, for complicity in the project, has been exiled to Dnghestan. A despatch from Berlin, dated December 7th, says a young woman lately banished to Siberia for complicity in a Nihilist conspiracy, has killed the Governor ot Transbeikaali. fhe Minister of Marine for Russia has asked for a grant of 5,500,(00 roubles toward? the construction of four men-of war.

A Sporting Event.—A tlnry which reaches the Court Circular from India is worth recording. At a recent race meeting up the country three horses were entered to start for the principal tup, owned by persons whom we wi 1 call A, E, and C. Now one of the conditions made hy the giver of the priza was that not loss than three horses should compete for it. It appears, however, that A had backed 13's horse for a large mum, and 1! had done the same thing as regards A '> animal, while C had laid largely against his own mount. On the morning of the race A produced a veterinary certificate that his animal was unfit to run ; he, however, said that, in order not to deprive his two competitors of the chance of winning the cup he should star:-his horse and pull him up at the end of a hundred yards. 13 determined 10 wait on A ; but rinding this method was of no use, since the former's horse was brought to a standstill, he caused his own mount to bol out of the course, Consequently C was bound lo ride over and win against bis own initresis ; but be was not to be outwitted. In galloping along he surreptitiously ex« traded and threw away some of his weight. Consequently, when lie returned to scale, vehemently asserting that he had been cheated by A and ii, ho was found to bo 71b too light. To Ibis day it is not decided who really won the cup, and consequently all bels, made on the event remain unsettled.