LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 245, 7 December 1880, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

London, December 4. Large withdrawals of gold are being made from the Bank of England for North America. December 6 A largely attended meeting under the auspices of the Irish Land League was held yesterday at Waterford. The most prominent agitators were present and addressed the meeting. Mr Parnell made a speech on the occasion and spoke bitterly against the action '. of the present Government, accusing it of having conspired against the rights of the people in Ireland. Washington, December 6. President Hayes has addressed a message to the Congress in which he recommends that the national debt of the United States should be refunded into 3 or 3£ per cent bonds in the place of those now bearing interest at from 4 to 6 per cent. New York, December 6. Owing to the extreme severity of the winter, five million bushels of graiu are now icebound in Lake Erie. Shanghai, December 6. News has been received that the Chitiese ! Government has ordered a most formidable . ironclad to be constructed at Stettin, a German port in the Baltic.

[Special to Sydney papers.] | (Per R.M.S. Zealandia at Auckland.) i London, November 29. The Hops Bitters Company contribute £1000 ' towards the stakes in the Hanlon-Loycock

race, in consequence of which Hanlon has agreed to row for £500 (?j. December 1. - Callan has been convicted of libelling Sullivan but the Bontence was postponed with a view to an apology. Constantinople, November 23. The Turkish Government have addressed a communication to the European Powers invoking their mediation in settling tbe frontier difficulty with Greece.