FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4517, 7 September 1893, Page 3

FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

How the Cholera Started. A Startling Revelation. (liy Telegraph, • Press Association.) Auckland, Thursday. It is definitely asserted that Mecca is the centre from which the cholera radiatos, and that the Holy Well of Zcrnzein is the nucleus. In this well all the pilgrims wash themselves, believing in the efiictioy of its sacred waters, Tlio water from tho Holy Well, when analysed, contained more animal matter than tho average in tlio London sewer waters, It showed tram of previous pollution, e<iual to six times the average ofLnndon sewerage. None but llahommedans ore 'allowed in Mecca, so no proper description of tlio horrors of this summer at ; that plsc", lime been priired. lliore have been G,6ofi deaths f om cholera in j Mecca | 2,188 ill Jedluh fince the present epidemic broke out. j China and America. The Chiii< to ur« making op a lobby in tlio United States, backed by un enormous fack ol to i.ave I icmove'J from the Statute liootis every ve.-ti«B of legislation against their cminlrviiici).

The Behring Sea Arbitration

The Bullring Sea Arbitration Hoard has canied a resolution that the close f.eai.on fhall be from the Ist of May io the Hist of July, and only sailing vessels are >o canv on scaling. Also for tlio protsdi'in of seals till agreement is to be submitted every five years for icvi ion if needed. A Blighted Lover. Prince Max, of Saxony, being the victim of unrequited lov<-, bus turn cl np his military c-»re«;r and devotes himself entirely.to the priesthood. Fatal Explosion. A grenade exploded on the ironclad Baden at Kiel, and killed Lieuts. Obesner and Zeinback, together with seven seamen, A Horrible Trade, A gsng of men have been arrested at Biskupti!, in Cronti-i, for mutilating young children. The men had for years made a trado of crippling children and sending them out to beg, or selling them to others, On August IGUi, the police foreeJ their way into a house, and found two girls, twelvo or fourteen years of age, with their legs broken. Another girl, about the same ago, was bound to a bed with her right arm broken and both eyes gouged out, Two children—horribly inntilated-were found in a cellar,

him and France. With referenoe to the Siam difficulty, Lord Rosebeiry is reported to have s<id that " We were nearer to war with Franco a week ago, than at any time since Waterloo."

War Narrowly Ayeited, A correspondent atCowes sends (he following on August lltli, guaranteeing its authenticity "Last Sunday there were six hours when the tension between France and England was so great that war wan considered almost inevitable. The Kaiser on hearing of the acute point-at which the question had arrived,rubbed his hands together with flee and suid 11 Now tbe dance is going to begin."