BRITISH AND FOREIGN

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2617, 10 August 1881, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

[Reuter’s Agency.] A Leaguer Released. London, August 8. Mr John Dillon, M.P. for the County of Tipperary, who was arrested on May 3 last under the Irish Protection Act, and who lias been lodged in the Kilmainham gaol aince the day named, was to-day released from custody. Mr Dillon, it has transpired, was released from Kilmainham gaol on account of his health. It is reported that the close confinement he has suffered since his arrest in May has caused him to be seriously indisposed. The Irrepressible Bradlaugh. The Court of Queen’s Bench has granted an order for a new trial in the case of Clark v Bradlaugh, in which a verdict was returned for the plaintiff on the 22nd ult. In the House of Commons to-day, the flight Hon. TV. E. Gladstone announced that the Government were . not prepared, at the present time, to deal with the Bradlaugh difficulty f

but would next session introduce a measure for that purpose. Railway Accident. A serious railway collision occurred to-day near Blackburn, on the East Lancashire line. Five persons were killed and thirty seriously injured. The Markets. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, has advanced to 49s ; New Zealand wheat, ex ship, remains at 48s 6d. Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, is quoted to-day at 365, an advance of Is.