SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 198, 20 August 1879, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

[Per City of New York at Auckland.] The weather in the British Islands has been the worst known for many years, and the crops everywhere are seriously endangered by the continuous rain. There is widespread distress in the agricultural districts, causing a reduction of rents on all large estates. Mr Gladstone, replying to a letter from a Warwickshire tenant of the Farmers' Association, alluded favorably to the proposal for inquiring into the agricultural depression. Mr Bright, also, in replying to another letter, says the whole question of land, primogeniture, entail, and ;the settlement of the rights of tenants is moving on rapidly. He referred to the influence that American crops and importations would have upon Europe, and if they could believe what they heard from the States great changes are about to take place which will affect not only the agricultural, but the general public condition and tbe institutions of England. He also said there was a rapidly growing opinion among the.leaders of the Liberal party in favor of changes in which the cultivators ot the soil have a great interest. Captain Barry has visited the claimant and says he was intimately acquainted with Orton and De Castro, and that he recognised the prisoner as Tom De Castro.