'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2052, 27 July 1885, Page 2

'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Auckund, this day. The 'Frisco Mail, dated London, June 18th, arrived this morning. In an interview with Lord Salisbury, the Queen was very positive in her demands that the agreement in process of negotiation between Lord Granville and M. de Giers regarding the Afghan frontier question should be completed in order that peace may be preserved. On the 27th, Mr Balfour made an address, which attracted profound attention, from the fact that he expressed a not, less pronounced wish than Mr Chamberlain to see Ireland governed by equal laws with England, and to have all exceptional legislation against the wish of the people for ever abolished,

The French Government has. withdrawn its demand for a iked date on which the English troops shall evacuate Egypt, and offers to leave the period to the discretion of the English Government if Lord Salisbury will admit of the principles of evacuation. ■ M. Waddington has also made conciliatory overtures regarding the question of the control of the Suez Canal, This change in the attitude on the part of the French Government is attributed to the cordial relations between Lord Salisbury and Prince Bismarck. News from Teheran is to the effect that 1000 Porsians are at work constructin? the Trans-Caspian railway. Warlike preparations are still bein? continued by the Russians. It is rumored in Bazaars' here <that war will probably occur after this railway is complete, to Merv. The cholera is raging furiously in four provinces of Spain, and the Cholera Commission and also many native and foreign doctors declare the cholera to be Asiatic, and of a violent and rapid character, attacking all classos of society. Business is completely at a standstill, and in Murcia the laboring people were dropping dead of hunger. Lord Garmoylo. has settled down at his father's residence, Bournemouth, an 4 resumed correspondence with Miss Fortescue. It is expected that they will be married within a year, YorkandNorth Haston, and Yorkshire, were shaken up by an earthquake on the forenoon of June 18th. The shock was rather severe at the place last named. . The Queen has offered a Dukedom to Earl Spencer.

Sir Peter Lumsden was entertained at Dinner in Windsor Castle on July 22ji d by tho Queen.

Sir R. A. Cross has dismissed the 50 Irish detectives who were imported by Sir William Harcourt for the protection of himself and colleagues.