'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4639, 3 February 1894, Page 2

'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

(Press Association,—Per R.M.S. Alameda at Auckland.)

East Indianmails received in London on December 28th, announce the death of Miss Charlotte M. Tucker, known all over the world as "A.L.0.E." For the last 18 years Miss Tuoker has been engaged in missionary work in India.

The London Agricultural Gazette of January Ist, takes a gloomy view of the crop prospects for 18(14, owing to the extraordinary mildness of the winter,, and the absence of snow, which promises badly,-

Charles Watkins, for nearly 30 years clerk in the Bank of England, was arrested on December 30th for (stealing £SOO from the bank. ■ The London Daily Telegraph thinks the proposal to add Utah, Arizona and New Mexico to the States of the American Union will probably involve the United States in embarrassments more difiiou't to surmount than any it has thos far experienced. The Fall Mall Gazette publishes a review of the trade of the year, compiled from official returns, which shows that the trade during 1898 has been worse even than in 1892, and that general gloom now hangs over the country's industriee.

Snow fell in London on January 6th, to tbe depth of aeveral inches, Nothing like the period of snow and cold at the beginniog of New Year had heen experienced in the English metropolis since 1881. There was a large.quantity of snow in the streets at Thornycliffe on thp night of the sth. Thji meroury fell to zero in Ireland.

'lhe polish newspapers pobliah accounts of § repent attempt to poison the Czjir of Bussia at a (ianguet. The first pourpe was only JirlE cqnauined, and the Cm ordered the remaipder to be BODt to an orphan asylum. Later, the Czar, the orphans, and all who partook of the fish, were taken sick, and an investigation showed that the fish had been poisoned, TJip Avciidukp Otto, Lett' to the ' Austrian throne, attempted suicide recently, but ip Tiew of the Crown Prince fiudojph's tragio death, efforts are being made to hash up the matter. In tlie meantime the Archduke lias liten-sent to Egypt. The youog man's eccentricities distress bis father, the j Emperor very much. i

The Russian General, Count Gourko, has been paralysed on the leftside,