LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 182, 11 December 1886, Page 4

LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

London, October 22. A woman named Leader drowned heraelf and her four children in the Thames under peculiar circumstances. The mother walked into the river, carrying her baby ; the other children followed. One, however, remained behind, and informed the police. The bodies were subsequently found. Doctor Nulty, Bishop of Meath, has delivered a sermon against Moonlighters, or other perpetrators of murders and outrages and their abettors. He denounced their crimes in the strongest terms. England, he said, was naturally just, but hated outrages, and only looked for an opportunity to convince themselves that the Irish were not murderers, incendiaries, and a proof of the capability of the Irish to govern themeelves. When this was afforded the whole democracy of England would support Home Rule for Ireland. The Irish must set their faces against crime, thereby advancing the happiness and prosperity of the country. A violent gale raged over the United Kingdom on the 15th and 16bh inst , doing euormous damage. The Brighton foreshore j was partly washed away, endangering tbo promenade. The etorm raged with tremendous force off the coast of Wales, and numerous wrecks with great loss of life are reported from all quarters. Tue business of Messrs Guinness and Sons, brewers, of Dublin, is now offered to the public, with a capital of six million pounds. Sir Edward Guinnesa accepts the chairmanship of the company, Mr Claude Guinness acting as manager. The Archbishop of Canterbury has consecrated Reverend Henry Parller, late piieeionary to Ohina, and chaplain to the Bishop of Calcutta, as the eucceesor to Bishop Hanington. to superintend the mission in East Equatorial Atrica. A determined land war is throatened in Ireland by the organised resistance of tenants to the payment of rent. At present, however, it is limited to a portion of Lord Clanricarde'B estate. The re-ietanco is caused by a resoluto refusal by that noblemen to concede a reduction of 20 per cent, demanded by his tenants. Lord Clanriearde declares that as the rents wore fixed by the Land Court he will evict all who do not pay in full, The Land League tenants will withhold all routs and pay them into the hands of trustees, who will use thorn for the relief and benefit of any whom Lord Clanricai de may evict. _At a meeting on the ISth instant, prepided over by tho Archbishop of Canterbury, it was proposed to erect a Churchhouse as a memorial of the Queen's Jubilee. A farewell dinner was given by St. Seorge's Club to Mr Warton. Fifty members of the Club were present, and Mr Malcolm Fraser acted as Chairman. Mr BadenPowell, in proposing "The Army and "Navy," crated that Wost Australia was a great field for the production of horses for the Indian army. Mr Warton, replying to the toast of his health, stated that he went to Australia with the hope of cementing tho union between the Mother Country and tho colonies.