FRISCO HAIL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 51, 13 December 1882, Page 3

FRISCO HAIL NEWS

[p;:k uxitkp l'lti:^- \.s~nciAT:ox.l Arri;i..i.M.i. December 12. ]Jni(ll;im, r li went to the House of Common > on the a'tenuion of tin. 1 loth to try an<i lake his s".-if. II<: hail a brief persoial pen- uli.-i! i< <n with the. Speaker, and \\iv< informed by him that the <rder of ex''iil-.»nu was still in lVree. lie then :\'v li.hvw without iii:iliiut{ any further It \v:;s reported "ii tlio l(i:h November a l:i'MW L.'-ili' prevailed ar.minl 1 1 1 • - coast. A bnV \v:^ ]<«{ ■■<!' Stewe- 1 \Mth all hands; a sm:i!l vi'-sel wml ashore ;\i Slower' li.iy. and another lutal wreck occurred at „y!e. The Mar<]iiis of Queensbury's sister, Lady Gertrude Douglas, has scandalised London society by marn'injj her baker. Her Ladyship is old, and the baker is tweiily-r-n<". The affair was made public on the 18th November. Twenty -five Auiuvliists (3 foreigners among the number) were arrested at Lyons on November t lie 18th. They are charged with fomenting strikes among workmen for obtaining a general division of properly, and destroying the sentiment of patriuti<m among the people. The illness which has compelled Sir Stafford Northcote to go to the Mediterranean is weak action of the heart, not immediately danirerous. Sir R. Cross succeeds temporarily to the leadership. J'armll's action in evicting tenants from his estates in County Wicklow has caused some comment. They were in anvnrs to the extent of L9OO. The British P sfinaster-deneral announces that when the new mail contracts are entered into the lines making the quickest possible passages will be favored if (heir regularity justifies it. Patrick Joyce, one of those charged with the murder of the Joyce family, was found guilty on the 15th November, and will be handed on December loth. Ou tli.- 18th November Miles- Joyce was arraigned for the murder of Mrs Joyce. He was also convicted, and sentenced to death. He was first cousin to the man Joyce who was murdered. Patrick Casey was also convicted of being concerned in the murder of the family, and sentenced to be hanged on December 18th. Gladstone proposes to introduce a fresh scheme of Irish legislation into 1 arliament to still further develope the provisions of the Land Act in the direction of a peasant proprietary, extension of the franchise, and a scheme for local selfgovernment. Revolutionary placards of Coraunistic origin are being pasted all over Paris, and explosive materials frequently discovered. Placards threatening Marshal McMahon's life hove been pasted on his residence.