MAIL NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1254, 12 March 1886, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

Michael Davitt delivered* speech id Flint, Wales, on February 11, in which he said Mr Parnell was ready to help the Welsh farmers aginst landlords and that nnlesa the Government gran tel Home Rule to Ireland Mr Parnell would retaliate by presenting in Parliament 30 bills dealing solely with England, Wales, and Scotland. Mr Gladstone is preparing a bill providing for the appropriation of land in Ireland by means of State funds. Iho Bill will precede other Irish measures which the Govenment intend to present to. Parliament. The dis< cussion of the Home Rule question is postponed till next session. + At the annual meeting of shareholders of the Anglo American Cable Company on February 5, in London, it was reported that the receipts for 1885 had been reduced L 93.926 by cutting down the rates and by competition. Messrs Mackay and Bennet declined to be influenced by reason in favor of higher tolls, a war of rates would bo ins evitable.

The report of the London Trade Commission, published on February 8, says the weight 1 of evidence shows that the failing trpde of Great Britain- is chiefly due to American and other foreign tariffs. Despatches of February 4 state tbat the principal landlords in Wales have combined to resist the demand of the Farmers’ League for a redaction of 25 per cent, in farm rents. They regret the Farmers’ League has adopted tlje false assumption that there is a natural antagonism between landlords and their tenants, and although willing to reduce .-Individual ,rents according to the .exigencies of each particular case, they are determined absolutely to decline to recognise the League. _ v

The Prince of Wales gave a dinner on February 2' to the leaders of both political parties and diplomatic representatives, including United States Minister Pbilps, ,The appointment of Mr Broadhurst aS Under Home Secretary has caused a sensation in political circles, that gentleman the first working man who has ever risen to the Ministry. ,Mr Gladstone has great difficulty in filling places in the Qneen’s household by peeresses. Tho Duohesaes of Bedford and West‘mSnater have refused appointments, and others will follow their example.

At the League meeting at Limerick on January 31, the Mayor announced that the League’s Executive Committee had in« atructed him to discountenance boycotting. ,A party of moonlighters at Tralee attacked, on January 30, a process-server named Rae, aged 60 years, cutting off one of his ears and a portion of one cheek. John Blake, Nationalist, was elected member of Parliament for Carlow without opposition. .Lord Carnarvon, ex-viceroy, left Dublin Castle on January 28, accompanied by his wife, for their home in England. The re turning official was followed to the railwaystation by enormous crowds, and bis route all the way to Kingston, where he took the ferry for Holyhead, was lined with people anxious to witness his departure. Mr Sexton, presiding at a meeting of the National League held in Dublin on February 2, predicted that at the next election the Nationalist would combine with the Liberals and return 89 members to Parliament. “ Ireland," he said, “ was satisfied with the temporary power of the Conservatives, who had abolished coercion and introduced a land-purchase measure, establishing the principal that the State should provide money for the extinction of landlords.” He advised Mr Gladstone to avoid violence and disorder in Ireland by assisting the disdressed peasantry with Government funds and by protecting then from eviction until a bill was passed to buy out the landlords. He urged Irishmen to remain peaceful while there was a chance of Mr Gladstsne making efforts in their behalf. A large consignment of white fish eggs is forwarded by the Almeda by the United State Fish Commissions as an experiment to New Zealand. Hancock, who contested the Presidency, is dead. Printing is of daily occurrence in the coke region of Pennsylvania, owing to the resistance by miners of the importation of foreign labour. The weather is so cold in New York that people have been frost bitten crossing Brooklyn bridge. Archbishop Gibbon, of Baltimore, has received a circular from the archbishops and bishops of Australia congratulating the episcopates of the United States on the occasion of the first Plenary Council held in Australia,

A filibustering expedition against Honduras has been stopped at blew York. An ugly political scandal is current to the effect that several senators were approached with bribes of stock by a gigantic telephone monopoly. Some yielded to the temptation. It; is alleged that 750,G0010l were used tosubsidise the Press and influence politicaus in the interests of monopoly.

The anti Chinese movement in California is gaining strength. The Chinese are being ousted from all the.principal towns in the State. Efforts are being made to induce the Mormons to buy one of- the tlawaiin Islands to colonise. The objectionis that Hawaiian laws forbid polygamy, Archbishop Gibbon has : beea created a cardinal. Hostile Apaches surrendered to a party of troops two days before Colonel Crawford was killed by a party supposed to consist of friendly Mexicans. The affair threatens trouble between the United States and Mexico, Mr Spreckles, of the Oceanic Company, has been instructed by the Company to have built an iron steamer for the Australian trade of 40W> tons gross register,and enginepower to give speed equal to that of the Alameda and Mariposa. The new steamship is to be named Sonoma. A plot to oust tbo Government of Guatemala, murder the President, and sack that city has been discovered, and 50. conspira* tors have been . arrested, including several colonels in the army. ' A volcano has broken out near Grate* made, which totally destroyed the village of SouHvincent.

Great distress - was caused among fisher men ot Canada by the failure of .Robin and Co. Ten thousand persons require assistance. Mr Stephens, President of the CanadianPacific, states that it is the intention of the Government to subsidise the line between Vancouver and China. Ho thinks this line will divert a lar-o portion of tea shipments now sent via San Francisco. " Wallace Ross and Piaisted, oarsmen, intend in August to go through the Niagara whirlpool in a boat. They believe Webb was drowned through an accident, and that the boat they have contracted for will convey them safely through. John Gibb, a prominent merchant of St. John’s, has fled, leaving evidence ot heavy forgeries. Mr Redmond, Nationalist member of Parliament, in a speech at Monaghan, oil February 7, urged Irishmen to restrain their violent feelings and not to hamper the new Government, which, he sail, would take immediate steps to stop evictions.