MAIL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 19, 20 December 1883, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

(Per Mail Steamer.) (By *Tele_rap_:.) (.united pbess association.) „ San Francisco, Noy. 23. „ Fifty cattle and sheep brought trom 2?ew Zealand on the last trip of the City of Sydney were quarantined for 90 days on arriving at San Francisco, ; the time dating from when they were placed oh board the steumer. } < The ; Xondon Despatch of the ?oth says the Queen's, health is improving, but from the effects of her late accident she is still unable to stand or walk for more than a few minutes at a time, and is still impossible for her to walk up or downstairs. Her Majesty left Balmoral for Windsor on the date mentioued, closely guarded by special police all the route. At Windsor and Slough there were large detachments td' guard the arches. London physicians are about to commence a campaign against canned goods. Several cases of sickness have recently been tmced to their use. Mr Thomas Sexton, M;P. for Sligo, was attacked according to his own statement, m Seven Dials, London, on the 16th November, by seven men, who gagged him, pinioned his arms, and rifled his pockets of his money and gold watch arid chain. AU the footpads but one escaped, and at. the tidal one of the jnrois.askpd Mr Sexton if he was m liquo£ ; at the time he was robbed. Mr Sexton, with considerable temper, answered m the negative. The robbery took place near a publichouse, where he had called to get brandy, and. soda at 2 o'clock a.m. The hearing of the suit for judicial separation, which Lady Colin Campbell • bas brought against her husband, and ; which will cpme up m a few weeks, will, take : place fa private. The circumstances are, of such $ character as tp rencler this goii^e necessary. ' tbe, mariiagp q£ tbe Prince,^ Jjqmse i Victoria A.le^apdpr Dagmar, . eW'es| ; daughter of ihe Prince of "Wales, now • sixteen yea?s old, toithe young' Duke of Porfclaad is mooted.

An action has been brought against the Duchess of Montrose m relation to her late husband's will, the validity of which is disputed. Her defence is that her husband, m making it, used a Stamp instead of a pen, because his right hand was unsteady. Humfries aud Co., engravers, London, failed on 6th November, for £200,000. "^

An explosion took place m Moorsfield ...Colliery, Lancaster, on 7-th November. Between 60 and 70 miuers were killed, aud there were 110 m the colliery at the time.

The Queen haa had a temporary stucco cast of John Brown's statue, erected on the lawn at Balmoral m front of her royal apartments. The cast has become the subject of so much discussion iv artistic circles that Bpehm, the sculptor, has had to speak m selfdefence. He admits it is far betterlooking thau John Brown ever was, but says Her Majesty came to the studio weejcly to superintend the modelling, and insisted on one change or another, until he. thought ho was doing the Apollo Belvedere iri kilts.