SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 744, 29 August 1878, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

• SUMMARY OP NEWS. Mr. Roberts, Liberal, has been returned for Farnborough with 163 C votes ; Mr. Penant, Conservative, 1511. The second reading of the Bill to create four new bishoprics was carried by 188 against 60. Mr. Edward Jenkins, M.P., brought forward a motion for a Royal Commission to enquire into the ritualistic practices of rhe clergy, but after considerable discussion withdrew it at the suggestion of "he Chancellor of the Exchequer. Forty bishops preached in the London churches last Sunday week, and 45 last Sunday. Sir Oontts Lindsay opened the Grosvenor Picture Gallery on Sunday afternoon, and in the evening Lord Granville laid the foundation stone of additions to 'University College, London, estimated to cost LIO,OOO. Several London vestries have commenced an agitation for an inquiry into the property of the city guilds, with a view to seeing if it cannot be directed towards the relief of the ratepayers. The breach of promise case at Dublin, Fitzgerald v. G.sbbins, resulted in the defendant paying the plaintiff L 250. The Board of Trade returns for the first half of 1878 are unfavorable, showing a continuous decline in the exports, also a falling off in the consumption of all the more important articles contributing to the revenue. Several thousand nail linkers have Btruck in South Staffordshire, refusing to accept a reduction of 20 to 30 per cent, in their wages.