'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7468, 12 September 1895, Page 4

'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

PER MARIPOSA AT AUCKLAND [EE3 EEKSS ASSOCIATION.] (Dates to August 21st). Two American millionaires have come forward to aid and protect the woman Mabel Stanley, the New Yorker arrested at Liverpool on August 10th on board the steamship Etruria, charged with having stolen jewellery from a man named Gibbons The jewellery was foand on her person when Brrested. The pretty petty larcenist is said to be a person of some consequence. The International 00-operative Congress in session at Hull, of the Society of Arts, LondoD, on Augusi 20ttt disooseed cooperative production. The Eev. Doctor George Clo-imer, of Boston, made a apeeoh, in which he held that when the seoret of the oo operation of all classes was discovered, the world would enter on a period of universal prosperity, peace, and happiness. Pbilanthrophy was overdone, and justice as far advanced as England, Belgium, and France, hut give it time, and 00-operation would take deeper root in the United /States than ever it did in the Old World. Baron Castletown gave notice in the House of Commons on August 19 of his intention to move a resolution in the House of Lords early next season to abolish the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and in lieu thereof appoint a Chief Under-Secretary for England, and to pray for the Queen to establish a royal residence in that country. Lady Frances Bose Cunning, widow of Sir Henry Gunning, the fourth baronet of that name, who died in 1885, was charged with forgery in a London Court on July 25 with the forgery of a bill of exohange, using the name of her father, "William Henry fipencer She was brought up on remand on August 9 in Bow Street, and committed for trial. Those who have followed the sad story of Emma Hail (says a London despatch of July 7). who died in Detroit last winter from the effects of a criminal operation, may be interested in knowing that the family of her betrayer, the Bey. Jonathan Bell, who were deserted by him when he fled from London, have been compelled to leave their houne at Blnckheath, and at the public expense seek refuge with their relatives Meantime tho „cv. Mr Bell has completely disappeared. Considerable comment has been caused in certain quarters by the announcement that William John Brown, who for years was the Highland attendant of Her Majesty, and for whom the Queen had a high regard, has been appointbd the Queen's personal attendant. William Brown inherits to a certain degree the somewhat British manner of his distinguished unole. While Dv Maurier's " Trilby" has had an extraordinary sale in America, the reverso is the case in England. The cheap edition issued by the publishers in London is reported as nearly unsaleable. Jlnglish papers and correspondeats are commenting on the extraordinary personal friendship vhat sprang up between Lord Lonsdale and the Kaiser William during the latter's recent visit to JKngiand. The Kmperor mado a visit to the English moors and lakes as the guest of Lord Lonsdale, and was treated by his host with a lavish and luxurious hospitality. Emperor William of Germany arrived at Cowes on August 5 on the imperial yaoht Soenzollern He was sainted by the British fleet, the German ironclads, and the Britiah guardship Australia, and met by the Pnnoe of Wales and Duke of Connaught on behalf of the Queen. A.he Queeu'a special guard waß drawn up at the landing ponioon. Five of the miners imprisoned by the flood of the Aughenhargery colliery at Saltcoats, have been rescued alive. An amusing piece of gossip in London literary ciroles is the disagreement between the poets ciwinburne and iirio Maokay, who wrote a poem in honor of Swinburne. The latter denies the ase of the knowledge of Maokay, and snubs him most unmercifully Frederioh Engles, head of the international social movement, died in London on August 7th. fcir Jdeia'y Irving will sail for America from .England on Saturday, August 3lßt, by the steamship ft ew York. He goes in style. The steamship South Ark, of the f- merioan line, has been specially chartered for other members of the company, and the scenery, properties, and various paraphernalia, whioh amounts to about 7000 tons. The company will open in Montreal, Canada, on September ltith. Professor andre, whose paper on a balloon route for reaohing the «orth Pole was by far the most interesting feature of the reoent Intarnational Geographical Congress, in a conversation with a London reporter, says the only thing the oritios olaim is that the balloonibts will be unable to steer the carriage. "Let me tell you that I have tried the steering apparatus over field and mountain, and it has worked to perfection " It is stated that Lord Haliebury intended to form a ooalition with a triple alliance for tho purpose of investing Austria with a plenary mandate for the occupation of Macedonia, including Salonica. Mies Sadie Eakins, an Knglish girl, waß given a verdict for £1500 for seductioa in a London Court on August 2 against William Craig Powers, cashier of a bank in .Rochester, New York A £4,000 000 diamond deal was oensumated in London on July 28 by a syndicate oomposed of Charles Abrahams, Werner Best and Coy, Joseph Brothers, and J. Baruato. This syndicate has made a contract with the De Beers syndicate of Kimberley, South Afrioa, by whicH the latter agrees to deliver to them its entire output of rough diamonds until July, 1897. For this concession the London syndicaie pays to the De Beers Kimberley syndicate an advance of ten per cent over the price now existing Tho Bight Hon. Sir E. B. Matel, British Ambassador to Germany, resigned that position on August Ist, and he desires to retire from aotive service in Ootober next, probably on acoount of the bad health of himself and wife The London Sun of August sth says it is believed that Sir Julius Pauncefote, British Ambassador at Washington, 8.0., willsueceed to the German mission. The Anglian Bishop of Eseter, in a pastoral letter on August 3rd, urges special thanksgiving and prayer for the defeat of the party which threatened the Uistablished Church

A receiving order in the bankruptcy case waa issued against Osoar Wilde's property on July 25th by the ifflarquis of Queensbary, olaimant for £677 coats in the debtor's unsuccessful aotion for libel. Robert Coombs, thirteen years of age, one of the sons of the chief steward Coombs, of tho National line Steamship Franoe, was arrested on July Bth charged with murdering his mother by stoboing her while she was asleep at their residence in Plaiatow, a suburb of London He was arraigned on the 25th at the Western Court. The only reason offered was that Mrs Coombs whipped one of her younger sons. The officers of the Russian warship whioh was at Robin's Island, Bearing Hea, for the proteotion of seals, ore oharged with putting soma 6000 Ekins on the English m-irket in February, (suspicion was aroused by the fact that some of the skins had a bullet hole in them. The Prinoe and Princess of Wales and the Duke of York formally opened the new graving dock at Southampton on August 3rd It is Ba}d to be the largest dry dock in the world, and able to at commodate the la>gestship afloat. Lord VVodehouse, eldest son of the Earl of Kimberley, who led the mob that attacked Rider Haggard, the novelist, and party, at Norfolk, while he was on an election tuur, waa fined for the offence. On July 31st the Duke of Argyle was married to Miss Ina Krakine MpWeill, formerly Lady of the Bedchamber of the Queen, and cousin of Sir John McNeill, who married the JDuke's sister The wedding was quiet, owing to the recent death of Sir Colin Campbell, the second son of the I uko of Argyle. 'Ihe Duke is 72 years of ago, and the bride 21. F. /.'aldwell, ex-M.P. t implicated with Jabess Balfour in the building sooiety frauds in London, was found dead in the garden of his residenco at Bournemouth on July 29th. John Daley, ex-member of tbe House of Commons, from Cork, while alighting from a train at Sydenham on August 20, fell between the plutform and the carriage, and received injuries that led to the amputation of hia left foot. Ihe Emperor William of Germany embarked for home in the Imperial yaoht Hoheuzollern at Leith on August 16. One of his aots while in England was to lay the corner stone at tho new lodge at the southern entrance of Lowther Oaatle on the afternoon of the 13th. The strike of mill workors in Dundee has assumed serious proportions. A despatch of August 21 says that 18,000 operatives aro now idle. They struck without waiting for a reply to their demands for an inorease of 10 per cent in their wages. The London Standard (Conservative) on August 21 says therd is a movement among tho Badiouls to change the leadership of the party, as it is their belief that having a Peer for their leader militates againtst success Tho Standard understands that the Earl of itoaebery will not retire unless deposed by a vote The O'onservativo party in tho House of Commons have oleoted Mr J. W. Lowther Chairman of Committees. ' He was UnderSecretjry for Foreign Affairs iv 1891-92, and must not be oonfouudod with Mr James Lowther,