FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3911, 12 September 1891, Page 2

FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

General Summary.

[Per Alameda at Auckland.] San Francisco, August 20. Patti has signed a contract for a farewell tour in America. The Cunard Company have contracted for a steamer to do twenty knots at sea, reducing the voyage to New York in five days and a half. Several Colonels in the British army have applied to the war office to suppress the circulation of Socialistic literature among the soldiers. The vicinity of the Chapel of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland, was crowded on Sunday, 16th August, with thousands of invalids afflicted with all fqrms of disease awaiting the curative blessing of the Holy Virgin. Mjss M'Master, a Scotch sportswoman and dead shqt, is about to be espoused by the Marquis of Ailsa, She is portionless. Mrs Frank bheldon, the American female explorer of Africa, was so much injured physically by the trip that she lies very low in London. Her doctors Bay she will be an invalid for the rest of her life. Cardinal Manning made public on 16th August a letter denouncing raffles, Church fairs, lotteries, and all games of chance, ostensibly to benefit the finance of the Church. Henry Irvine, the actor, has recovered" the use of his voice by an operation on his throat. Russian Jews arriving at London, Liverpqol, Glasgow, and other British ports, will start by different lines for the United States. Those who left Hamburg during the week ending 2nd August will not be landed all at one place, but will be dived up among the leading American ports, so that they may not attract too much attention and opposition. Lady Caithness, by virtue of her millions and her enthusiasm, succeeds Madame Blavafcsky as high priestess of the theosophical movement, or esoteric Buddhism, as sbme ; call it. Lord Salisbury refused the Grand Prussian Opder of the Black Eagle offered 'aim by the' Emptor gf'Ger, many during his recent visit. A considerable number of Welsh workers propqse leaving England for America; ?hey wilj not be under contract, in order to avoid the law forbidding the importation of contracted alien labour. Mr Morley, speaking at Leamington qn Srd August, said if the Liberals dropped Home Bule *as : their fdrgm.Qst plank it would lead tq the greatest split the Party had ever known. He predicted that Balfour's Local Government Bill would be an irretrievable step towards Home Rule, and

would mean the suicde of Unionism. Sells Brothers take a large and well equipped circus and menagerie down from 'Frisco to the colonies by the Monowai next month.

Carl Sherr, mining expert for the colonies, drowned himself at 'Frisco. Roman Catholionuns and Sisters of Charity have been certified toteacli in the public schools of Texas, the Attornay-General of the State holding there is nothing in the Constitution to prevant them. Leprosy ha? been developed in New Orleans. The subject, a while woman named Mary Bolt, died there on the 16th A ugust. There are half a dozen other-cases reported in tLe city. A couple married at Denver (Cal.) on the 16th August, took a balloon ascension for their bridal trip, under direction of Professor King. Beaching an altitude of 8000 ft, the balloon collapsed, and shot earthward like a plummet for nearly a mile, when the folds of silk suddenly expanded and the remainder of the descent was comparatively gentle. The balloon alighted in a cornfield near the town. Its tenants were unconscious, and remained in that condition for several hours.

Cholera has made its appearance in Ohio. On 12th August Henry Hilton and daughter were stricken down with it at Springfield. The physicians pronounce the disease to be of the true Asiatic type. Frank Melbourne, the so-called Australian " Bain King," is exploded, as regards his phenomenon. Twice before have his afforts been unsuccessful, and on 10th August, at Canton, Ohio, his third failure has shaken the faith of people in him below par. Instead of raining, the heat from an uncloud9d sun became almost unbearable. He may be able to produce rain in Australia, writes a sneering reporter, but his machine is of no avail in Ohio.