'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 224, 25 August 1883, Page 2

'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

(UNITED PBEfffctSSOOIATIOtf.) . San Frutoisco, July 28. Tom Thumb died of^appplexy. : Mace and Slade, the piig. lists, hav;e returned to New York;. Slade, qfter fighting Mitchell, has challenged Sullivan, the champion of America. General Aylward, who l^d the Boers in reserve against the British, has eloped wiih Miss Von Haesen, of Brooklyn, married her at Boston, and left for Australia. 5000 telegraph operators have struck for seven hours, and extra pay for night, work. - There are Sunday .labor troubles in the steel, coal, and glass grades.. ] Despatches speaking of the return of whalers to New Bedford, after an urn 1 profitable cruise, say the whaling interest in that vicinity is almost extinct. Numbers of dismantled whalers are lying :*t (the wharves! rbttthgi. The, Panama Oanal Company has already spent 150,000,000 dollars, and 'the "funds are exhausted. Efforts are now being made to > build- np another company on the ruins of the first, being old stock ?at 10 cents on dollars, and subscribing money to carry. pn the work. 6d0j000,000 dollars mbreVis required, to finish the Canal. Tbe^^yajoruy^pf^the, stockholders are willing to sell shares at 10 per cent of what they paid. Confidence in De Lesseps is, shaken.