'FRISCO MAIL MEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 513, 23 June 1897, Page 4

'FRISCO MAIL MEWS.

General Summary.

(Per Mail Steamer).

Colonel John Hay, the newlyappointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James, from the United States, received unusual distinction on May 80th. While presenting liis credentials to Her Majesty at Windsor Castle a royal carriage conveyed him and his wife from their residence to Paddington Station, and also from Windsor Station to tho Castle, where luncheon was served. Tho Marquis of Salisbury and Sir Com Jasco Colville accompanied Ambassador Hay. The audience with the Queen was brief and formal. Mrs Hay was presented to the Queen by the Countess of Errol, lady-in-waiting. Colonel and Mis Hay remained three hours at Windsor Castle, returning to Windsor Station in u royal carriage, and were also met at the Paddington Station by a royal carnage, which conveyed them to the residence of the United States Ambassador. The British and German Courts are agitated, according to a London despatch of May Ist, over a scandal in the family of tile Duke of SuxeColurg (tho Duke of Edinburgh). The second daughter of the Duke, Princess Victoria Melila, refuses to Inc with bar husband, Einest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, to whom she was married on April llHli, 1894, in the presence of Emperor William and Queen Victoria at Coburg, and it mains with her sister, Princess M urie Alexandra Victoria, wife of Prince Feidinand of Boumunia, at Bucharest. The Cohurgs, Queen Victoria and otlieis all take the part of her husband, who is now staying with the Coburgs at Gotha.

It has been discovered by a Japanese correspondent at Bangkok, on A ay 2nd, that the King of Siam is going to visit England lo solicit tl.e protection of his country, lis view uemg that England is now his sole reliance against spoliation. The King, it is said, is particularly feaiful of French interference, a id it is report! d that he has turned to Japan and China for uid, and has lint with rebuffs. France has been a tenor to him dining many years, and at length the King realises that unless England comes to his rescue tho downfall of his independent sovereignity cannot he long delayed. A young artisan was arrested on May 20th ill a part of Tsui koe, fii Is, 17 miles from fit. Petersburg, whirl he had stunted him elf for ti e [ rpc e of. s.-u-Miiuting tic Czar. | IP had a dr ge: and a revolver in Ins DOS 0 Sion. 'I he London Star .s flooding that metropolis with startling placards ! anum nc ng coming articles on the j Standard Oil Trust, and says : “ The Paris horrors arc surpassed, j Wei , women and children here are r> Vd alive in order to put money n.tn tho p cl- ti of an American tiu-t. Buebefellcr lias obtained ab ; solute control of the oil trade of I Great Britain by forcing retailers to tell the refme oils prohibited in America, and is responsible for the terrible series of lamp explcssoi s.” The filar urges the Government to legislate in the matter. Sir Hubert Peel, it is announced, i‘ to be married to a daughter of Baron Gruffeiideim of Switzerland, cn nine- Bth. There nas been no communication In iu the British Government to the Washington authorities concerning Hawaii, and the report emanating hem Japan, that Great Britain had exprts-cd di-approval of Ilatvaiugi annexation to I nited States is de-

In tho Hon e of Commons, the President of the Board of Trade, Mr C. T. Hitchie, replying to Sir Charles Howard Vincent :Conservative and Frrcti idcri, said the Government was not prepared to compel companies applying for new railway charters to I ay their equipments in the United Kingdom. In the case of the Waterloo City Railway, Mr Ritchie added:—“Twenty-two cars had been ordered in America, bevause out of the seven English firms ti i di ring for the work not one was able to d> liver the stock in the time rupiired by the Bui]road Company.” Prince Francis Joseph of Battcnlmrg and Princess Anne of Montenegro were married at Cettinge.

in tl.e lb' e of C'nnimcns on May Bt h, a Bill to prevent tho importation of goods manufactured in foreign prisons wa- pa rd to u second reading. The Sultan lias promised to send his -mi, Mel i lumen St Ivin Kll'endi, l iopre iut I.:ui at the Jubilee. If Hu Majesty carries out his intention it i- more than likely that there will l-e | me existing scenes during the pi-on sion through the streets of lanoMi. Tim Liberal newspapers ull furious at the simgestion. '.'men Victoria, did a graceful act U Thin -'! iy. May fith, that delighted Mr and Mr: Gladstone. She suiui" i'd thi in and grand daughter I" I thy I>:r w to Windsor. Her Muj. sty wanted to ;( , the child who •' mred pi inilientlv in Mr Glad '< private life. Mi.S Drew had ti ..id a p!,-.-.n.t interview '••It ti' Qticri and nft.rwu.il i' tri. d_ to I Inn. She was •' *'•.*' i .• I I I r iiioll.cr and t V. Ml 1.1 111. Pm:,.. I Louise. * *' l y I *t 'ti 11, lhe Princ H ■I -f Wale and Princess « h I'd. ..I | i,marl. Prim-crs Mnnd v 'hX't ivMt'ni'rnstir' 1 ?! 1 -'!' llt'H. 'hi '.t, drove to liar- '■ id... in:.l 1 11 ;:(■ led wi'l, Mr and ■ '■■ H. eh mi mlier of pinal family ,| „ .„ 1 * “hit a a n.t luoiial of tho ■h.lui *' \V. Fester, who goes to j hi gh j tl a- a ri jri intative of the lien! can be made to preserve seals I I. If: wauan watirs, urrived ut >oi:i I. mu pti ui i u May 281 h. Mail. Twain is in London and '"ikieg haul on Ins n. w book.

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