ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRAN CISCO MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 7412, 6 January 1888, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRAN CISCO MAIL.

The Marquis of Lorne is reported to be seriousljrill with-throat diseaee," : > : It is proposed to settle.colonies of crofters in British Columbia, if the country be found suitable. »-

Mr Balfour was hissed at Manchester on December 14th, and closely guarded for fear of assassination. - ; General Wiltoughby, the .ambassador qf Madagascar to London, has been arrested for the embezzlement of L 12,000. . :.. Dooherty., has been held for .murder in shooting Captain Graham at the Criterion Restaurant. The plea of accident was disallowed.

The Northampton factories began to lock-out on December 5. Fifteen thousand » men a*e affected.

Queen Victoria proposes to vist San Remo in the spring. Dean Scott, the eminent Greek scholar, died in London on December 2.

An earthquake was felt in Chowley, Lancaster County. Mr Parnell is living incognito in a village at Brooklyn, Kent, under the name of Preston. '

The Belfast Orangemen have petitioned the Government to disqualify men who have been imprisoned from sitting in Parliament. Mr John Power, Roman Catholic bishop, of Waterford, died on December 5.

Poyce has won a libel Buit for LIO.OOO against his former employer, the Marqnis of Clanricarde.

The Scotch Home Rule delegation report favorably as to conceding Ireland's demands. The London ' Times' of December 13 gives currency to a statement that 2001b of dynamite was stored in London to resume the policy of destruction. The tight arranged between Mitchell and Sullivan takes place in Kent. Tickets are sold at L 55.

The railroad from California to Oregon was completed on December 17. A copper mine on Lake Superior has been destroyed by fire. There has been a great rise in the market value of the metal. President Cleveland, in his annual Message, declares plainly in favor of Freetrade, and argues strongly in favor of the complete abrogation of the duty on wool.