AMERICA AND ENGLAND.
MORE TROUBLE ON the FISHERIES. It is announced from Washington that Hayes, President of the United States, has invited Congress to consider the course of action the Government should pursue in regard to the outrage which took place some time since on the American fishermen at Fortune Bay, Newfoundland, and especially in view of the refusal of the Marquis of Salisbury, as Foreign Secretary in the last Administration, to accede to the demand of the American Secretary of State for compensation from England for the loss of boats and nets belonging to the fishermen. The matter in dispute between England and America is seriously occupying public attention in both countries. Suicide by a Chicketeb.— Mr Tlioma 8 W. Wills, well known in cricketing circles,ha s committed suicide at his residence at Heidcl' burg, by stabbing himself with a pair of scissors. The Melbourne Argus says that for some time past the deceased had been drinking heavily, but on fire 28th ult. he was placed under restraint, and a person appointed to watch him. This man left him to get his dinner, and in the interim deceased possessed himself of a pair of scissors, and despite the exertions of his wife, who endeavoured to prevent him, stabbed himself three times in the left breast in the region of the heart
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Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 525, 27 May 1880, Page 3
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222AMERICA AND ENGLAND. Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 525, 27 May 1880, Page 3
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