'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5439, 1 April 1889, Page 3

'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Auckland, to-day. Arrived: R. M.S. Mariposa from San Francisco. Passengers for New Zealand : Lieut. Wilson (U.S. Navy), Capt. Jennings, Professor Kennedy and wife, Rev. Griflin, Mrs Oeighton, Capt. Charles Mitchell and wife, Captains Mills, Consul Connolly, Messrs Cutter, Groves, Beck, Ncely, Mason, Kizell, Parkess, and six steerage. The general summary dates from Europe to March 8 :— CoiiHtess Larisle was sentenced to perpetual exile from Bavaria for her part taken in the events in connection with Prince Rudolph of Austria. At a dinner given by Prince Bismarck to the members of the Lower House of the Prussian Diet,lie said in a speed) he regarded it as impossible that the Samoan question .should interrupt the friendly relations of Germany and the United States. The new French Ministry under M. Tizard won a decisive victory on March (sth over the Boulangers in a pressing measure suppressing the Lignes des Patriotes. They will prosecute its organisers for treason. Letters at New York on March 6th from the Congo say Stanley, the explorer, had started to rejoin Kmin Pasha and would not return by way of the Congo. They hadsuileied from the treachery of Tippoo Til), whose chief object was to pick up slaves. Wissman's African expedition was likely to be a failure, having no recruits. Victor Stanwood, U.S. Consular Agent, was killed at Indakabe, Madagascar, recently b}' the captaiu of the American schooner Solitaire. It is calculated that seventy lives were lost in the recent gales in the Red Sea. The United States has informed Germany that their demand for the prosecution and punishment of the correspondent- Klein cannot be complied with. Ex-King Milan will shortly start on a long tour. The Austrian Cabinet fears Milan's abdication will result in Russian ascendancy. The private debts of the throncless K'-ig amount to 2,00,000 florins. The German Government have decided to prevent Peters' expedition proceeding to the int-rior of Africa. O'Donovan Rossa has sued Cassidy, of the New York Catholic News, for criminal libel. He called Rossa. a traiter to Ireland. A Chinaman has been arrested for debauching twenty-five white girls at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Eriocson, the famous engineer and the inventor of the Cloric engine, died at New York on March Bth. The discovery of rich goldfields is reported near tho southern boundary of San Diego, a county lining California, on Mexican territory, in the Valley of Santa Clara. The King of Holland developed symptoms of blood-poisoning on March sth, and death was considered imminent. He suffered severely. The Philadelphia wool men have sent the new Secretary of the Treasury, Mr Windom, a letter asking him to make a rule to prevent scoured wool being imported under the name of "waste," that he will confirm a 60 per cent, duty on wool tops, and that he will classify so called worsted cloths as woollen. Viscount Maudeville, eldest son cf the Duke of Manchester, failed on March 6th for £100,000. He married an American lady. His bankruptcy is attributed to gambling and living in excess of his income. John Dillon, M. P., sailed from London to Australia on March 6th. A large number of enthusiastic friends gave him a send oft". It has been discovered that a bloody vendetta prevails among the Sicilian colony in New Orleans. There are several thousands of these people in that city, and the feud, of which there have already been many victims, was brought, from Italy. Bodies have been found by the scent of dogs in swamps on the borders of Lake Pontchartrain and in other out of the way places. Many persons have disappeared, of whom no account can be got at all.