FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1607, 12 February 1884, Page 2

FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

• Wellington, Monday, Arrived—Zealandia, from 'Frisco, The premises, ,of Silver and Co,, Colonial Merchants, of Sim's Court, Cornhill, London, were destroyed by fire on the 16tb.

January, 17. The Reformatory ship Clarence was burned in the river Mersey on Jan. 16. All hands were saved. The iron and steel workers of Great Britain have been notified by their fellow craftsmen of America,that agents from the United States will shortly be in England to get workmen, and they hope that no British workmen will assist in defeating their brethren in America.

The jury in the case of W, M. Wolfe, now on trial in London, for unlawful possession of explosives, disagreed, and were discharged. Mail advices received in London from China, state that several Chinese bankers havo committed suicide owing to the unsettled political situation, and deplorable state of the money market Miss Hogarth, the surviving executrix of Charles Dickens, has taken steps to prevent the publication in England of the novelist's letters to his solicitor, on the ground that they were never intended'for publication. Lord Lytton's biography of his father meets with no sale in England, because it is said the price is too high, and the' work too bulky. Schuzler, the explorer of equatorial Africa, is reported, dead. On the 16th January Mr Gladstone issued a circular to the Liberal members of the House of Commons requesting, their attendance at the opening of Parliament on February sth, as it is the desire of tho Government to submit at as early a date as possible proposals of much interest and importance:

The marriage of Prince Louis, of Buttenbury, with one of Queen Victoria's grand-daughters, is fixed for April 15th.

Sensation is caused by a; bequest of .£500,000 made by a wealthy London lady to Popo Leo XIII. Rumors of Fenian plots are heard in London on every hand. Redoubled vigilance is now being exercised at Windsor .Castle, and similar care is being taken at the houso of Mr Gladstone and the Government buildings, all of which are guarded ,very closely.

In consequence of the renewal of threats of dynamiters, an additional police guard has been placed at the post office and other public buildings in Glasgow.. • .January 6,

A portion of tho bridge on the railway between Wigan and Preston collapsed on. January sth, killing seven workmen and injuring many others. A new book by Queen Victoria, entitled "More leaves from the Journal of Life in the Highlands from 1862 to 1882," is announced. Copies have already been -presented to a few privileged persons, 5 ' The book is'in the nature of tribute to John Brown, giving reasons for his. gradual rise in royal favor.

Messrs Dart and Rogers, merchants, of Liverpool,. failed on. January Blh, liabilities L 100,000; . The Austria' Laee Factory at Long Eton, near Notingham, was burned on the Bth, the loss was £IOO,OOO,

IRISH AFFAIRS. John Daly,. M.H. ■ foi* Cork, has suddenly did so owing to the 'slight inflicted by :Mr Chamberiainj'President of Board of Trade, who, wishing to fill a vacancy in a Government office here, asked Mr Parnell to nominate a suitable person. Edward Harrington, a solicitor, and proprietor of the Kerry Sentinel, who in June last was sentenced to six months imprisonment on account of the publication of a treasonable placard, was released on January 6th, His term of imprisonment having expired. Bailiff Lims, while returning from the Tultamore Law Court on January 9th, was fatally shot by an unknown person*

Mrs Carey, the informer's widow, declines to leave Great Britain, and asks for safe employment at Home, Henry George's doctrine of land distribution has enlisted all the Irish Press against him, and Michael Davitt has made himself unpopular by his effusive welcome of this new agitator. Mr Chamberlain, President of the Board of Trade, Baid in a speech he delivered at. Newcastle on Januaiy 15, that the improved itate of Ireland was due to the Land Act rather than to the Crimes Act. ~ . .

A riot occurred at. Enniskillen on Saturday, January 19th, during which the police charged. the mob, and .were met by a shower of stones from Nationalists, The Orangemen also stoned the police,, and afterwards stoned the Catholic whwlhonse. '' .