FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1255, 21 October 1884, Page 3

FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

The Zealandia, with the ban Francisco mail, arrived at Auckland at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday last, contract lime. The following is a summary of the intelligence brought by her:— A piece of plate and a purse of gold have been given to Captain J ones, of the Greely relief ship Loch Garry, at London. Eastbourne, the famous Sussex watering place, is crowded with Americans scared by the cholera from the Continent, The British gunboat Wasp foundered off Tory Island, on the north-west coast of. Ireland, on September 23rd. Fiftytwo men, including all the officers, were drowned. Only six persons were saved, and they clung to the wreckage. The vessel struck at three o’clock in the morning during a haze. According to a despatch to the New York Morning News, from London, on Sept. 24th, the correspondent of a wellknown American paper had eloped from London with the young wife of a,n English nobleman, and they are believed to have taken passage for the Australian colonies. The curious part of the affair is that the journalist is old enough to be the father of the lady. The names are not made public, A furnished house in Hampshire has just been taken for the Tichborne claimant, who will soon be released. An ample allowance has been subscribed for him and his two daughters. It is not expected the infant Duke of Albury will survive the winter. Parliament will be asked at the coming session to make provision for the eldest son of the Prince of Wales.

A rumor was in circulation on the 22nd that the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh had announced their intention to vote for the Franchise Bill at the Autumn session.

Prince Bismarck is about to visit the Prince of Wales at Abergeldie Castle. An English Church paper savagely attacked General Wolseley and Lord Northbrook for starting on their mission to Egypt on a Sunday. Queen Victoria is at Balmoral for the autumn. She is said to be in an extremely gloomy state of mind, and visits John Brown’s grave daily. Over 3000 people at Leicester were recently summoned for defying the vaccination laws, the feeling against which is incredibly bitter all over England. The Rev. Mr Trackleton, Presbyterian clergyman, of Tullaraore, has brought a suit for £6OOO, and a Mrs Brown for £23,000, against the Dublin Freeman’s Journal for damages. The journal printed an article in its columns stating that the clergyman had eloped with Mrs Brown to Paris.

Fifteen thousand persons attended the funeral of Duigan at Dublin on Sept. 14th, among them O’Brien and Davitt. Admiral Courbet, commanding the French naval forces in China, is claimed to be an Irishman, his father being a Cork man, who, on emigrating to France, added an “u” to his original name of Corbet.

At a meeting of the National League at Baltimore on Sept. 2ist, Mr J. M. Kenny, M.P. for Ennis, declared Ireland would never be contented till she was free. The Irish Members of the House of Commons were opposed, he said, to the Liberal Government, because they expect more from the Conservatives. Resolutions were adopted in favor of an independent Government, and a peasant proprietary. Mr Parnell was cheered as the future Premier of Ireland,

Mr Thomas Sexton retires from Parliament as representative for Sligo, and will contest another seat.

The Municipal authorities of Limerick formally resolved on the 26th not to pay extra police tax or to send a deputation to Earl Spencer, the Lord-Lieutenant, whom they denounced as a tyrant. The votes stood at 18 to 2. Extra police were appointed by the Government on the plea that the local authorities did not furnish sufficient protection against outrages, and the cost of their maintenance was assessed upon the community to which they were assigned. This is the tax that Limerick refuses to pay. Mrs Weldon, who won her own case against Messrs Winslow and Temple for illegally confining her in a lunatic asylum, is again before the London Courts in the various capacities of plaintiff, defendant, and counsel. Since her first success the lady is said to have become a monomaniac on the subject of litigation. The lately - divorced Lady Eveline Campbell recently appealed to a leading newspaper for a position as correspondent in Egypt. A new steamer for the Canard line, the Etruria, was launched at Glasgow on Sept. 22nd. A great banquet followed. The vessel is built to be the fastest steamer afloat, Mr Gladstone left Midlothian on September 26th, On parting he thanked his constituents with much warmth and expression for the encouraging reception accorded him throughout his tour. He said in the present crisis the Lords ought to study the best means to provide that the House of Lords shall not fall, and this could best be secured by their acting with moderation and prudence. A despatch from London of September 24th, says the Cabinet is greatly impressed by attitude of the country, and have resolved to create Peers if a small majority reject the Franchise Bill a second ; time.

In a rowing match at Southampton for £6O an 18-oared crew beat by U <> minutes the cutter’s crew of the United States dagship Lancaster. They grey nuns of Montreal are suing to recover 100,000 dole.'paid as taxes, claiming that by the terms of the cession of Canada by France to England they were exempted from taxation, and the money was obtained under false pretences. Henry Clay, grandson of the celebrated American statesman, was killed in a barroom row at Louisville, Kentucky, on September 23rd, being shot by the barK66D6F The’ Secretary of the Treasury has directed the New York Collector of Customs to admit, duly free, the Ascot Cup i won by Mr Jas, R. Keene s Foxhall. The cup has been in the custody of the Collector nearly two years, Keene refusing to pay duty. . , Mdle. Bernhardt, the actress, intends to make a tour of the world, including Australia and California. . She is paying up her debts in instalments, to avoid a sale of her effects. . John L. Sullivan, the American champion prize fighter, proposes to box Billy Farnan, the Australian champion, and Alfred Greenfield. . , , A wedding party of seventeen, including the bride and the officiating clergyn,ma were poisoned at Bloomington, Illinois, by eating canned fruit, ihree died immediately. . Lawless miners in the coal districts of Pennsylvania, known as Molly Maguires,” have reorganised, and are now waging! quiet but deadly war against Hungarian and other European operatives taken on. A number of the latter have been found stabbed to death. The citizens of Lewis County, iennessee, where some Mormon Elders were recently murdered, have ordered all of that faith to leave the place within 30 days, or share the murdered ones’ fate. The Rev. Dr Newman Hall, ol London, preached to a crowded assemblage in Fremont Temple, Boston, on Sept. 21st. 'He strongly urged the practice of the virtue of temperance. Californian fruit growers are becoming apprehensive that the products of Mexican orchards and vineyards will drive theirs from the market of the United States. They therefore ask for protectloThe Bank of New Brunswick, New Jersey, stopped payment on Sept. 6th at 11.45. The cashier committed suicide the same day, and the president, M. Rewoyn, followed his example on the Bth. The daughter of the latter, when she heard of her father’s death, attempted to drown herself in a well. _ The Bank did nearly all the financial business of the city, and its failure has worked incalculable distress to its customers. It perished through the manipulation of a ring of political and financial tricksters. One curious feature of the affair was that a mob blockading the door of the defunct institution caught a New York Times reporter and wanted to lynch him, asserting that all the trouble arose from his paper calling attention to the rottenness of the Bank. He had some difficulty in saving his life. Miss Lucy Johnson, a Salvation Army girl, was murdered by a crowd of young roughs at Albany, New York. The Salvationists were entering their hall when thejattack was made. Mr Isaac Newton, chief engineer ®f the Croton (New York) Water Department, committed suicide on September 15th, by cutting his throat. Mr Nowton managed the Monitor in her fight with the Meriruac. An immense temperance meeting in Boston, Mass., on September 18th, was addressed by the Bishop of Rochester, England, and Bishop Pradock, of Canada. The steamship Ocean King left Montreal on September 14th with a party of 500 Canadian voyageurs on board, as a force to navigate the Nile under General Wolseley’s orders.