Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 605, 2 May 1882, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

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(Reuters Telegrams.)

London, April 29, Morning, The Select Committee of the House of Lords appointed to inquire into the working of the Irish Land Act has concluded its labors. In the course of tbe repoit which has been tabled, the recommends that the State should advance to tenants the purchase money of their holdings, in order that arrears of rent may be cancelled.

London, April 25, Evening,

A man named Young, described as a clerk, of Doncaster, Yorkshire, has been arrested on a charge of sending threatening letters to the Queen, with the object of extorting money. A fire occurred to-day in Aberdeen, by which a large shop was completely gutted, and stock to the value of £40,000 totally destroyed. No loss of life occurred.

(Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association.)

April 29,

The ship Rakaia. outward bound, has put into Plymouth with small-pox aboard, that disease having shown itself among the passengers while going down the Channel.

A telegram has been received from Capetown reporting that the ship Permene has put in there, having lost her bulwarks and stanchions, she had to jettison twenty tons of cargo. Arrived—Ship Waikato from Napier and ship Rio Grande.