NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2266, 22 June 1880, Page 2

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

[By Tkij-xuiapii.]

(Per Kotomahana at the BlulL)

Bnim?, June 22

The mail steamer Siam arrived at Albany on June 19 with the Suez mails. She brings the following items : Parnell has proposed a .scheme for the suspension during the next two years of all processes for the recovery of rents in ease of holdings under .£lO annual rental, according to the poor law valuation, and all ejectments by State. He also proposes to organise a commission to parcel out land in small holdings, and sell it to the peasantry, compensating the original owners. It is stated that the Government Bill, dealing with the Irish land question, will authorise the Government to appoint a Commission which will be empowered to purchase large estates and retail them to the peasantry, in small lots. The funds arc to be provided by the State to peasant proprietors enabling them to pay interest at the rate of per cent. An Imperial alliance between Russia and Germany is rumored.

A Medical Board appointed to examine the mental state of the Turk who as-

sassinated Colonel Comerolf, decided that he was not, and had never been insane.

CAPE NEWS. A Boer deputation, which arrived at Cape Town for the purpose of proceeding to England to interview the Government on the question of making the Transvaal an independency, were surprised to lind that the British Government had already ordered that the tjueen’s sovereignty over the Transvaal was to be relinquished. Among the passengers drowned in the American, was John Patterson, one of the most prominent politicians in Cape Colony. About £9,000 in silver was lost. A portion of the mails were saved.