THE ENGLISH MAIL [VIA SAN FRANCISCO.] GENERAL NEWS SUMUARY. (Dates from Europe up to August 27th.)

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 171, 25 September 1886, Page 3

THE ENGLISH MAIL [VIA SAN FRANCISCO.] GENERAL NEWS SUMUARY. (Dates from Europe up to August 27th.)

TRkk'Utlie.jront riots in North Wales have assumed a serious aspect. A despatch of 26th ttya ' the rector of the Parish Llarn^mon, Bsv. Evan Evans, refuged to make a re* duction of 25 per ceut. asked/ and the farmers told him to get hid money the best way he could, Distraint was attempted, but the officers were driven off. Hundreds t>F colliers from neighbouring mines marched up'to'aeeist the farmers. On August 27th Lord Salisbury conducted the experiment of cutting oats with electric machinery.' Forty-four eteamera and thirty-three sailing vessels are ieported rotting at th£ Glasgow dock?. This is attributed to low ireights and generally depressed business. The British Government haa decided to appoint a commission to inquire Into, the expenditures of her principal departments of State, and that Mr Chamberlain will be chairman. ' The statement is also made that a small royal commission on. the currency question will be appointed, with Mr Goechen as chairman. "The Duke of Newcastle will leave England late in September for a two years' tour round the world, beginning with the United States. Mr Gladstone left fbr Munich on the 25th of August for a three weeks' vacation. A cotton strike, affecting some 6,000 operatives, is threatened in Bolton, Ashton, and Oldham. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has fallen ill and cancelled his English lecturing engagexneats. He has gone to the Water Cure Establishment at Moffatt, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. His youngest brother, Rev. Jas. C. Beechar, of Cosscob, Conn , committed suicide on August 25th at Elmira, Hew York. He was also at a water cure establishment, on account of failing health. Despatches from Calcutta, received in London, August 24th, state that the news of the demand of the Emir of Bokhara upon the Ameer of Afghanistan for the possession of the oasis of Khojaeleh has created considerable excitement throughout India, as it is feared it is the inception of another coup d'etat which has Afghanistan for its objfect. The various Generals of the English Army districts have ordered the volunteers to practise picket duty and be in readiness to quell manoeuvres. Each volunteer, is to be supplied with twenty ball cartridges. It is understood that this action is taken uuder the expectancy of a renewal of dynamite outrages and Irish disorders in the northern, and midland counties' of England. The London Socialist League have passed resolutions strongly condemnatory of the authorities of Illinois for sentencing to death the Chicago anarchists. 'General Booth, of the Salvation Army, proposes to visit the United States in October. A meeting of hop farmers from all the hop growing districts in England was held at Tunbridge on August 17th, Resolutions -were unanimously adopted declaring that the present depression in the hop-growing interest is the result of undue preference ehown for the importers of foreign hops, and by the railway companies in carrying foreign hops at lower rates than can be obtained by Home producers. The resolutions suggested legislative regulation of freightage, a reasonable import duty, and a law to prohibit the landing of foreign hops, unless sold and accompanied by a certificate giving the season and district in which each bale was grown, signed by the district authorities. The resolutions further advise the creation of a , Minister of Agriculture. A sensation is caused by the statements made in a Court at London in connection -with the affairs of the Briton Medical and General Assurance Association. The hearing of the petition on the wind-up of business of the as? ociatfou was in progress, and during the course of the proceedings the judge stated that the failure of the concern Was due to defalcations which would exceed £100,000. Be declared that every effort would be made to unearth and pumsh the miscreants who had caused the ruin of the association. A report reached London on August 20th that Professor Bracken bruech had made a large annexation in South Patagonia on behalf of Germany. The "Standard" is of opinien that Bismarck will have to reckon with Chile and the Argentine Republic in this matter. A fire broke but on Dudgeon's wharf, London, August 20th, on which were Btored 40,000 barrels ef petroleum, destroying the whole lot. The disaster tended to make the oil market firm. The foundering of the British steamer Aberdeen, from Hankow, for London, with 55; 000 tons of tea, before reported, was denied on London 'Change, August 21. Thiity-six miners wore" killed by an explosion, in the wood t and colliery, at Leigh, England, on August J3th. In the race, August 15th, for the Cape May Cup between the Trex and the Genesta, the latter having won the cup in the United States last year, the Irex was Tictorious. Both the yachts started out vith all sails set. . The Irex sighted the Cherbourg breakwater at 2 a.m. Having passed inside, she passed out by the east end at 3 a.m. There was a brisk south-* west wind blowing and she made a quick run, arriving at Cowee at 1. 10 p m*. The Geueata did not arrive till 5 p.m. The Cabinet decided on Aug. 15th to recall the Afghan Frontier Commission, at the earliest date possible, whether the delimitation be finished, or not. The 'Standard' says this course will cause unqualified satisfaction in both England and India. ' u The truth if»,"a{2ds th**t paper, " we are weary of attempts .to arrive at a clear understanding of the frontiers by negotiating with Uuseia."' ' * "