ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1224, 13 December 1882, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

By Telegraph. (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION). AUCKLAND, This day. The report of the Irish Land Commission spetks of the indisposition of tenants to purchase holdings, though numbers of landlords are anxious to sell the arrears. The clauses are not operative to such an extent as was expected, and the amount of assistance applied for is insignificant considering that large sums are due to landlords. Arguments for fair rent between landlord and tenant with intervention of Courts are increasing under the machinery of the Act. The fair rent cases are disposed of at the rate of 4690 a month. Laborers are not availing themselves of the Act.

Companies for promoting the scheme of the Channel tunnel have renewed applications to Parliament, accompanied by fresh plans. The Yorkshire colliery owners advanced their quotations 10 per cent., on Nov. Ist, and raised miners’ wages 5 per cent., so preventing an extended strike. Letters state a famine is impending in the Counties of Donegal, Clare and Roscommon ia consequence of the potato crop failure ; while storms have devastated fields and cabins of poor guardians of workhouses, who declare the prospect is the worst since the famine of 1846.

Gladstone proposes to introduce a fresh scheme of Irish legislation into Parliament, to still further develope the provisions of the Land Act in the direction of the peasant proprietary, and an extension of franchise, and a scheme of local self-government. The rainfall in England is double the Oct. average. During the 24 hours ending Oct. 29 incessant rains prevailed in several parts of England arid large ares of the country were flooded. Bridges were carried away, railways blocked, and in the Midland Counties only rhe rods of firm houses were to be seen. Many places flooded a Ion.; the Thames very seriously. Windsor was inundated, and immense loss ;jid suffering e i iifid. A gn at gde acoou-p mied l>y floods also visited Ihiglmd on the Ist November, devast i' ing the Western and Southern sections. A d zeii houses were swept away at the dor- ugh Bridge, and the railway tracks are o torn up in Devon and Somerset that the tr.ii is were stopped entirely ; the d image is c ere, but no 10-s of life is reported. The Exeter Canal broke its banks, and the whole countries of Cheshire, Warwickshire, and Somerset were completely flooded.

Drspatchek from London November 12 ■av that a great part of England has been flooded by heavy rains which have fallen almost without intermission, so that in scarcely a district has an autumn crop been sown, it being impossible for farmers to do •o. Traffic in some parts, filch towns as Canterbury and Reading, is carrie'd on by boats; and the country upoii each side of the pricncipal railways looks like a large lake. Sheep rot has also appeared in many places, so English farmers are inorc anxious and depressed than ever. Revolutionary placards of Communistic origin are being posted all ovdr Paris and explosive materials are frequently discovered. Placards threatening General MacMahon’s life have been posted on his residence. Davitt, in a recent speech Aberdeen, urged the Scotch farmers to den Mind for decrease of rents; he said they shi mid claim a right to have an independent tribunal to arbitrate between them and the la adlords, for he thought it possible to have conceded to Scotland the same right already ( <rauted to England. Direct telegraphic communicatioi I has been estildißhed between the U.S. and Valparaiso and Chili.

Arcnbishop Croke is to be stttnn toned to Rome in the course of the winter t.t confer with the Pope on Irish affairs. The German Government has devo» ked one Hundred thousand dollars to defray the ex•e’lses of exploring the wilds of (central Africa. Germany, with the Governments of England, France, Austria, Belgium, and An serica has dcclated an intention of supporting I the (imposed International Exhibtion at ).Umburg next spring. The organ of the Nihilists has declare d a revolution imminent. The Porte has refused the British Gove m ment the privilege of establishing ci 'wl depots in the Province ef Yemen. China has ordered a German system of naval fortifications for several of her por. to with Prussian war rifles. Terrible conflagration at Olenborge, Fin-' land. Enormous losses resulted, stores, hotels, theatres, ere., being destroyed.