ARRIVAL OF THE ’FRISCO MAIL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 2451, 24 May 1890, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE ’FRISCO MAIL.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 3. It is well known in court |circles there that Queen Victoria’s health is seriously impaiied. She is suffering from incurable dropsy, which is only prevented from taking a malignant foim by medical skill. Twenty known survivors of the Balaclava charge were found in a workhouse in London recently ; most of them in a pitiably destitute state. A public subscription was started for their relief, and the total result was only £24. Pettit, the American Lawn Tennis champion, played a match on April 26th at the Queen’s Club, London, against Sir Edward Gray, the English amateur champion. Pettit won six games to five. At the conclusion of a bull fight at Guadeloupe, on April 20th, a section of the amphitheatre collapsed, throwing thousands of spectators lo the ground. Hundreds who were bruised by the fall were trampled on, and their sufferings were intensified, but strange to say no lives were lost. Prince Napo'eon has written to President Carnot, provesting against the latter’s visit Lo Napoleon lst’s house in Corsica. He asks what there is in common between the first Go*»«ul, who made lhe New France, and C not’s Government, which ie disorganizing the country. The labor movement is occasioning such wholesale ch. nges in the location of troops in the Austria.; Empire, that the military condition of the country resembles that of war. The major poition of the Cracow gar.’son is distributed through the Ostrow district. Five sisters named Doniorcrioff, the youngest 19 years old, committed suicide at Moscow, on April 24th. Ashes found in the apartment showed that they had burned a number of papers beforo taking their lives. It is believed that fears of arrest as Nihilists led to self-murder. Sweden has granted Dr Fenthiof Nansen 20,000 crowns in support of his pTopos i expedition of discovery to the North Pole. The expedition will start in February, 1890, and passing through the Suez Canal, will reach Behring’s Straits in July. A new whaler is being built for the purpose. Twelve sailors and four scientists will start in this exp .'lion. ' Five years’ stock of provisions w«’l be ' carried. Bismarck, speakiDj, to a depul Hon, declared with some emotion that he ould * gladly have remain 1 in office if the ! Emperor had so desir 1. He allribut 1 his 1 removal to the intrigues of his opponents, 1 especially a Minister who owed Id's poiip’on * to him. He admitt I that he differed ‘ with the Emperor on the labour question. * “The Government piesented policy,” be * said, “must entail harsh dea'ings will ' Socialists;” Count Herbert B'smarck srm j 1 he hoped to leave the tread.m'l of office, r but his father desired him to remain. < Disputes between England and P * gal are again approaching a c.'sis. The * delays of the Portuguese Governmerv, Jj and the aggressive actions of its agents " in Mozambique, are ex iaus ing B iiisii ' patience. Two stern-wl* 1 steamers * are being built by the English for an expedition on th Shire Rive*-. a They are to be a»tned with batteries r of Hohchkiss guns. Should Porlu- c persist in her po'icy of procra9- I r tination, a demand wi l be made upon her r for payment of £2 500,000 due to England since tke Peninsula War, when Portugal v was saved by Wellington from annihi- e lation. J Mrs Helix Parnell, mother of the f Irish leader, writes to a New Yor’ ® morning paper of April 28th, contradicting ” a story to the effect that she is not desti- v tate, and reiterating her former statement. a She says : “ Pen and pencil fail to portray extreme cases, and none has told my extreme suffering from cold that has I been clinging to me for weeks. I would J tot now be alive, but for the benevolent people who have provid l for me ; for, at my advanced age, I was fast dying of cold and starvation.”