SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 142, 30 July 1880, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

!, t a t C c t t 1 1 : | The Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy and Colonel Laurie, Conservatives, have been unseated as members of Parliament for Can- j terbury. Mr D. 1L Ratcliff. Liberal, re- j presenting Evesham, has also been unseated > for bribery. Great dissensions are said to exist in the i Cabinet. Mr Chamberlain, the President 1 of the Board of Trade, wishes to resign. His grievance is the non-recall of Sir Martle Frere. O'Donnell has written a long letter, fiercely attaching Parnell and other members of the Home Buie party, for supporting Bradlaugh, whom lie describes as a revolting Atheist. Right Hon. S. Cave, ex-M.P., and writer on commercial subjects, is dead. Messrs Charles J. Church and E. Smith have failed, because the Bank of England j would not allow an overdraft on their account. Business men say that they were not dealt with in the usual way by the bank. Thomas Dale, o/m* Jordan, captain of the 1 Canadian team of cricketers, was arrested in the midst of a game as a deserter froni | the British army, and sentenced to 3<> days’ imprisonment. He managed to escape from j the guardroom, hut, being recaptured by a ■ civiiion, another court-martial increased the sentence to Ml id days. The scores in the Klniry International • Rifle Match are:—England, 1733; Scotland, 17!H) ; Ireland, lf>ol, The new Irish Land Bill provides that until 31st December, 1881, ejectments for non-payment of vent in certain districts, where distress is prevalent, shall be deemed ! a disturbance of tenant landlords within the 1 meaning of the Landlord and Tenant Act, 1870, and the tenant shall he entitled to I compensation in the discretion of the Judge of the County Court, if non-payment of rent : is caused by prevailing distress, and the tenant is willing to continue in occupation upon reasonable terms as to rent, arrears of rent, and otherwise, and such terms are . unreasonably refused by the landlord. The bill meets with determined opposition from | the Conservatives, who denounce it as a confiscation. The newspapers oppose the bill unqualifiedly, and Lord Elclio gave notice that he would introduce two bills intemlen to burlesque the measure, hut the Speaker declined to allow notice of the hills to go on the order paper. The Home Rulers also oppose the progress of t the bill.

[from tiik rcs-r]. GREAT BRITAIN.

At a meeting of Irish members of Parliament it was resolved to ask the Cioveni meat to double the grant for the relief o the Irish distress, and charge a uniforn rate of 1 per cent, interest, and also tha ; LtiO.OOO instead of L 30.000 should be voter for fisheries. The Long Range Challenge Cup was woi by the Irish team at Dolly Mount; sevei j Americans and ten of the Irish team com l peted, the ranges being 800, 000, and 100 j yards. The American team beat the lrisl | n turn, On the '2Bth the score stood:-

American, 12!>2 ; Irish, l-’SO. Tho American team also won the competition of militarv rilles, ami carried all the prizes in the Abercrombie competition. AMERICAN. June 4. Host Hour is soilin''at •”> dol coins: wheat, 1 dol .Vi cents; ('hcvalior barley, DO cents to I doled cents 1 >r Tanner, of New N orlc, lias undertaken the extraordinary leaf of fas tiny forty days. He says he has done it before and can do it attain. ‘ The secretary of the Japanese Legation at Washing ton, Agee Vakato, feeling remorse for having been concerned in an insun ection in bis own country, recently commuted suicide. Bogus 100 dollar notes, of better woikmansliip than the (Government issue, have been discovered in circulation in California. Tlicy arc said to have been imitated by a famous counterfeiter named (diaries LI rick, lately realcased from the penitentiary. San Francisco shows a loss of 10 per cent, in business for the week ending doth June. The cultivation of tea is about to be tried in the States of North and South Carolina on a most extensive scale. (leorge Fearn, an English swimmei, —- voars of ago, has accomplished the distance from the foot, of Thirty-three-street, Hast Hiver, New York, to Flushing Long Island, Id miles, in 0 hours 7 minutes 40 seconds. He swam directly through the Hell Cate nu . The foreign banks and banking companies in the New York State will in future have te pay anmialiy half of 10 per cent, on all capital employed. The Bank of ( alitmnia and Bank of Nevada will be considerably affected• . Lorillard’s lmrse Falsetto (American) bus been scratched for all engagements in Kngland. .. Harry Sullivan announces that be wu coomineiiee an engagement in the l H ’ted States in September, and proceed from California to .Melbourne and play there during the Exhibition. J 1 is? daughter-in-law, Adeline Stanhope, goes with him m support.