FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2749, 14 November 1887, Page 2

FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

The s, 8, Great Eastern was sold in London on October 20, at auction, for ; £21,000. The steamer Agrippa collided with and sank the German barque Plateau off Eeachy Hend on Tuesday, 18th October, Eleven'persons were drowned and tho captain of the barque has Bince died. Only two of tho crew survived. ' ; The closing meeting of the Liberal federation at Nottingham, on tie 19th 'of October, was oneof the largest ever .held in England. NeSrly 6000 persons were present. Tho hit. of the meeting was when Gladstone, taking a candle in his hand, read a telegtatn announcing that Da Kane had repudiated Chamberlain's Parliament for Ulster. Saunderson, the Parliamentary leader of the same party, had previously repudiated his land purchase scheme, The second point of enthusiasm came when Gladstone referred to Chamberlain's demand for a plan of dealing with Ulster. A Government report give the number of destitute p?ople in London as 110,000. Sir Charles and Lady Dilko' have had »n ; extraordinary reception' from tho Sultan of Turkey, They were' received twice in audience, and a special state banquet given them, when all the Ministers and tho Household was present, Dil ke refused the Grand Cordon of the Medjidie, but Lady Dilke accepted the Grand Cordon of Ghefakat, or Order of Generosity and Fidelity; The Turks and Greeks vied in.'hospitalities. This extraordinary fayor is largely due to Dilke's book on the. present position of European polilics. A London despatch of October 20, says: "Fanny" the servant girl who figured in the Dilke case; has denied that there was the'least truth in Mrs Crawford's statement of her refusal to appear at the trial. She had nothing to do with the Dilke case. , Dilke's friends are working gradually, towards some action. Mr H. Eider Haggard has written to the Times complaining that an American work, "The",; companion to "She", by E Ryder ..Haggard, has been issued, of which,- he is entirely innocent. He also says his book "Allen Quarterman", : was surrepti-, tiously published from incorrect proofs which, by some mysterious means, found their way to American firms, and spoiled the sales of the authorised edition. Lord Cairns has e'fttered into a marriage engagement with a woman named Olive Bereno...' Several influential, English and Scottish newspaper proprietors have offered the use of their; premises and machinery and staffs if Government closes the National offise in Dublin. The Scotland Yard officials profess to have received information to the effect that a number. 'of American' officials'are contemplating a series of dynamite outrages. £;'•.