'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 269, 17 October 1883, Page 2

'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

(iTNITBD PBBSB ASSOCIATIOH.) Auckland, October 16; Arrued, at 10 this- morning-— City of New York, with the .English ma I. 4 SUMMARY OP NEWS. London, September 21. A death from cholera is reported m Sligo county hospital on the 20th." Mr Parnell has selected Edward McMahon as the candidate of the Home Rule party. Elki&and and Co., London merchants, failed on September 21st for* £100,000. ; | Professor Nordenkfeld's Greenland party were heard from, via Thurso, Scotland.: He had reached & distance of 360 kelometres inland, and attained a height of 7000 feet above the sea!. The whole region is proved a desert.; Germany interprets Mr Gladstone's visit to Denmark m a most unfrien jly, way. " ' ' ' """"" I The Duke and Duchess of ; Te\jk; have left England and gone into retirement m Germany to economis-*. Their apartments m Kensington Falajcehave been placed at the disposal of the Princess Louise and; the Marquis of Lome. The British Treasury Department has canceled £75,000,000 of "various stock,. representing a portion of tne national debt, and issued terminable annuities. • At the grades Unior. Oon-jress, held at Birmingham on Sept. 12, Joseph Arch offered the following resolution : iUeL3*Sg^SISP, c «it , of wasterland m the k^gdow^gpable of cultivation,! radical changes m the land system of the country are required, in-oi der.that land may be put under productive cultivation for the benefit of the, community, thereby, offering a ch«ck to. excessive emigratiori." 5An amendment was offering calling upon; -the Government to declare such land Government property, and with this addition the entire^ resolution . was accepted. :■ Ti VX'-'"'.- ■ ■ Moody, the Evangelist^ ' goes to Ireland, m October, " not,- liqweyer," as he says, *to convert Catholios, only to preach- tl*e gospel,!',^ '■] !^ „ ' i. : The .striking weavers ;',.' of . Ashton-r uader-Lyne held a mass meeting; on September 17, at which "..a^ resolution was adopted rejecting the master's'pro- , posals, and deciding tnat they will re->. main put; another month, pending [the], preparation of new terms. _". I'" ■ ■ Lord Densome, the • future" Lori Eevarsham, is shortly to be married to the'; professional* Nellie Lom.ar, who. with her;sister Kate^has been jlhe-, reigning star foil some time at one jot the leading Variety Shows. She attiaoted the att ntion f of .. the Prince of Wales, by her singing of the spng,*' Go and inform your fatter/ and sinoe., that time has been advertised aj "The Royal Favorite." „ : . ' ,i A movement is on foot to erect a monument to the late Webb on the banks of the Severn, the spot .where he first saved^Ufe.l- . ..■■■-,; i:i: The. spread of the cattie 1 disease m t every portion of England causes greatuneasiness. In gome . sections ,only American beef is now obtainable. Ihe Lancashire Cotton Spinners Society has passed "resolutions declaring that the depressed^ state of the cotton goods trade demands a-reduc-tion m both spinning and weaving de-;. partments. s 1 ... At a meeting o^ the supporters; of Bradlaugh on th^l6th, it was resolved that at the next session of Parliament; the House of Commons should be given no rest until Sradlaugh be admitted to, his seat or his legal disqualificatibn ; finally determined. ' ; Mary Anderson, an American actress now m London, recently declined the honor of ;be]ng, presented to the Prince of Wales, She desired, she said, to, avoid, scandal. . „,,.. The Queett_subscribed £200 for relief, of ; distress m, Egypt, .paused by cholera. . , ; , , , The London night police are to be armed. Two or three Recent burgla■ios, m which firearms played^ a/lead-^ ing part, have changed public, ppinion', on the subject, and the general feeling ; now is that the officers should bejarrhed -.at'tinCetu..;-. .. \\-, it; , <,;/., v .... j ;,. The Prince of Wales, had a pleasant time at Berlin on the'Bth;' where he attended a fancjr dress ball, The, P/ihce, -Lord Charles ■ Beresf ord, and ' other members of the Royal party att^nded as "oboka : and v chambermaids. The Princess was absent. , v -„ . • v Marwood, the London hangman died" m September (?) An- inqueßt~_was J ordered, as it was said Invincmes^ caused his death. '■-•*.- Av| : An impression has- goneabroadiihat the Queen has practically disgraced i the new Duke of, Marlborpugli cby ; ref using to admit him to her presence to deliver up the Insignia: j>f Garter which his father wore, His successor, according to custom, delivers it to the , ;thetSbvereign, . ?He, however, haSjbeen told he must leave the things with the ■Lord Chamberlain^ , ; & , ...y< ,:;• I The Vicar of Stratford-6n-Avoh has signified his willingness )to £ allpw the., remains of Shakespeare to be exhumed. The object is to compare- the skull ofthe poet with the bust and portrait of him. Some of the members of -the" .Town Council, however, oppose -the opening of the tomb as desecration^ and threaten to thrbw anyone attempting 1 to' Set into the rivep Avon. t ' J Her Majesty has given Mr Thompson a commision to write some beautiful verses about the late John 'Brown, which she will have engraved on some of the numerous memorial crosses and .monuments >jbich are being prepared by her order. Theodore Margin v^ill also write a.biography df Brown. Ihe same despatoh adds 1 that the Poet Laureate's income from his works is np longer what it was, Hispublishers used to guarantee him £3000 a< year, but can do it no longer, as he has been wasting his time writing rubbish : for the staged ' \ John Morley r has retired permanently from the Pall Mall Gazette. '