SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4400, 22 April 1893, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

• A Gambling Scandal, . [By Telegraph.—Press Association.] -WiitisoTON, Friday. - The 'Frisco summary dates from Europe, .11 arch: ■ 20t hi' r' A'. gambling scandal was developed in Berlin. The parties are persons of,the highest rank both inenand ••vomen. It'.was brought about by tbf loss-s, at a distinguished citib, of n Silesisn count, the amount reselling 27,000 marks before.■h' found lie was being cheated, Several j.accoinj.Hce3;,vwQrb ; - : the li .iders m.ViRg- d to escape to England. ■.■■ ■;. Han Fiiancisco, March 31. ' ■ ;■ Some excitement has been created in nr.val and social circles by the marrUge ofComfflandsr Whiting of the U.i). warship Alliance; to Miss Etts An Fong, daughter and heiress of the great All Fong, the most notable Ghinamsn in llawdia.; Bridging the Channel. "Abington" Baird. The Britisft House of Commons is to;be asked;bis session to'sanotion the conMruction of a bridge' across to Striita ol Dover,.connecting England with France. The cost is estimated at about thirty-three million sterling, and the period for its construction is seven years. ; : >-■ ■if ;J-KM

Abingioh Baihl died in New Orleans'U.S. A, Ile came to tho United Stales wi.tlr Clmrley Mitchell, the English pugilist, whom he intended to back ngaiii.it. James C'orbett, In tlie meantims he. look up Hall against Fitzsimmons, ia .the recent fight- in New Orleans and lo3fheavily. It was Baird'a cnprice to go into the corner with ; Hall, on the night of the fight, wearing nothing: but a loose undershirt over the upper part of his body ! as did '.he other seconds. The building was full of draughts, and Dnird took coldbut this, did■ not prevent himself and hie party going out for a lark, and indulging in a general round of dissipation, which did not end till Baird -broke down and had to go to bed,.where ho died. The body was embalmed and sent to England,

Affairs in Ireland, Mr. Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, has instructed the Chiefs ot Police in the Ulster districts, to keep tbe.local leaders of agitation in positions where they cau be arrssted at the first sign of a serious revolt.-. Be-' porters'on- behalf of the police are to attend, every public Orange meeting in tho province, and take down the veihtim. utterances of the speakers, and if, in tbo judgment of Mr Morley, their remarks are'of a nature sufficiently inflammable to prove a menace to the Government,• the speakers are to ba arrested and prosecuted with all tho .'vigour at. tho command of the Government.