NEWS VIA FRISCO

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1592, 24 June 1887, Page 2

NEWS VIA FRISCO

The following items are from the mail summary per s.c Mariposa, at Auckland. The Egyptian convention between England and Turkey was signed 'at Constantinople on May 22: -; A despatch on Jane 1 says that the Sultan of Turkey bas ceded the Island of Cyprus formally to England.

Tho Qaeen has proposed to release all military prisoners confined for petty offerees on the occasion of the Jubilee.

Mr George Anguatus Sala lectured on " What £ saw m Australia and New Zealand," for the benefit of the hospital fo* women and ohildren.

Queen Kaipiolanl, of Hawaii, and her suite, arrived at Liverpool on June. 2, and were received with a royal salute and a gue rd of honor, .......'•,' ", '' Prlnoe Albert Victor, eldest' son ot the Prinoe of Wales, will go to Dublin' on June 23 as the Queen's represeetative at the Jubilee celebration . there. „ The Cambridge University ' crew agreed on May 24 to row the Harvards, if the -necessary funds to cover the expenses of tbe trip to America pan be raised.

Efforts are. being made to concentrate the transit of Australian mails across the Continent, and thai obviate {he delay m ■he sailing of the monthly steamer. •'■ - A dynamite bomb exploded voder ; the Police Court at Hepburn, Durr- am County, on May 23, partially destroying the building. The outrage was attributed\td the strike \

Fathers Keller, Regan, and Slattery were released from KUmainham prison* ia Dublin oh May 21, the Court of Appeal having deoided that the arrest of < the priests for refusing < • jtlmony was4Hegal. De Bensaude, huaband oi Violet Cameron, the actress, has obtained £1900 damages against the l * Manchester Umpire," for a libel contained m an interview with Lord Lonsdale, published ln that paper.

A UHonlat mooting held [m Bristol on May 18 was swamped by Gladstonites, Sir Henry James, who was to deliver an address, was unable to obtain a hearing and the meeting broke up ln disorder. W. L; Hanser, a young man, aged 83, agent for the New Zealand Life Insaranee Company at San Jots', Oal., shot himself fataUy on May 15. He was short m his aooounts, and love affairs are said to have caused ths aot.

Sir John Mlllals has sold his Aoademy picture for this year, a Sootoh landscape which he calls " Over the Hills and Far Away," for 6COO guineas— the highest price ever given for any English landscape, Turner's alone' excepted. is; Mr Edmund Yates telegraphs on May 30 that upwatflo of £4000 was snbscrlbed by the prereut members of the Royal Household for a Jubilee present to tha Queen. It will take the shape of a splendid silver centre plaoe. . Windows along the line of the Queen's ronte from, Buckingham Palaoe to Westminster Abbey are letting for £40 snd alngle front floor rooms for £50. Americana are credited with being the highest bidders at forcing the prloes.

An Anglo-Parisian bookmaker, named Wright, recently ofiered £20,000 for the racehoi. ) Bendlgo, besides allowing the pre ant owner, iMr Barclay, to rnn the horse m whatever race he , likes, Wright and Barclay to divide the winnings equally. The offer was refused. The Royal Commission appointed to Investigate the charges sgainst the War Offi )of j )bba:/ m making contracts and m purchasing defective weapons, bas prepared : a report which exonerates the officials individually, but advises numerous administrative changes. ...... At an auction sale m Wale's,' op* May 28, of some cattle distrained, for tithes, the crowd gathered, foroed back the soldiers and po ice, caught the auctioneer turned b'«i coat inside out, and led him In proce-ilon through the town. After handling h'm tough'y they made him pro* mlse never to act as auotloneer m the neighborhood again. - Lord Colin Campbell, who recently brought a cult against his wife for divorce, was declared bankrupt on May 23; on the petition of the Duke of Marlborough, who Who co-defendant m the divorce suit, and who lodge! a petition m the Bankruptcy Oourt against Lord Colin for cost*. • Hjs schedule shows £9000, Including £6000 for divorce costs.

The signing of the Russian-American extradition treaty by Seoretary Bay«rd on the part of the United States, whereby political refugees are to be surrendered to the Czxr by. the Amerioan Government, has . created an intense feeling among foreigners residing oncer the stars ana stripes, and also among the native born. The Knights of Labor are Intensely exolted, and mass meetings are held, at whioh tbe Secretary of State (Bayard) is denounced ln unmaasnred terms.

A memorial on the Irish question, prepared by the Irish College at Home, and published on May 18, h entitled "Ireland as it is." It explains Mr ParneH's polloy, snd apologises for the attitude of the Irish Eplscoprcy, referring especially to Archbishop Walsh. The memorial is rather firm and uncompromising m tone, bat not revolutionary. It is supposed that Mon. slgnor Kirby, the rector of the College, oonsnlted with the Vatican before Issuing the document. A later despatch doubts the issuing of this memorial.

Indigestion, weak stomach, irregularities of the bowels, oannot exist when American Hop Bittos are used. See_Hm