’FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 66, 12 November 1887, Page 2

’FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

100,000 WORKMEN DEST ITUTE.

THE SALE OF THE GREA3,' EASTERN, LONDON SOAND/JjS, BOULANGER’S TROUBL’ 83—WOMEN AGAIN, THE BISHOP 0 ABE. MARY VON RECEIVES' I iIFE PENALTY. The Mariposa arrive 4 at Auckland yesterday afternoon f> rom Ban Francisco with English mai Is to October 6. The following is a svonmary of mail news There are 100,0’ 50 workmen in London destitute. The Great Eastern was sold by auction for £21,000. The steamer Ag,»ippa collided on October 18 off Beachy with the German barque 1 Plantian. Eleven persons were drowi aed. "Fanny," the servant girl in the Dilke divorce case, denies the truth of Mr Crawford’s statements in the case. Mrs M. E. Prgrker of Manchester is organising an immigration scheme to California for decayed English needlewomen.

Mrs Hughes-I lallet implored mercy for her husband from the Conservative committee of Hoches ter, but they refused.

Generals Ca fiarel and Daudin confess to sellin ig decorations of the legion of hone air for money. Both officers are d .egraded and disgraced General Boi clanger and President Grevy’s son- in-law, M. Wilson, are charged with complicity. General Boulanger w as placed under arrest for thirty days. A woman adventuress, named Mad ame Limonsen, is at the bottom of t’ae whole affair.

Serious r iots occurred at Gibraltar on October 17 between the Irish and English sol dierg.

The condition of the Crown Prince of Germany is considered hopeless. The ailme ht he is suffering from is similar to that wnich President Grant suffered from.

An interesting trial for embracery is going o n at. Ban Francisco in which prominent; men are defendants. Judicial corruption has been unveiled. A committe sof safety has been formed by the loading citizens. Mr D'alzel, formerly of Sydney, has sued the Duke of Marlborough for 25,000 dollars for accusing him of forgery. Dalzel publishes a paper called Truth in New York. Yellow fever is ravaging Pampa, Florida,

Mrs Mary Von the murderess of George Wesley Bishop, late of Auckland, has been sentenced to the State prison for the term of her natural life. The case caused considerable interest, and the prisoner was much affected when sentence was passed.