MAIL ITEMS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4020, 16 November 1881, Page 2

MAIL ITEMS.

The statement is made that the death of Lord Airlie in the Western States was preceded by the ghostly beating of a dram at the mansion in Scotland, the usual sign, according to report, of the speedy death of a member of the family. Lady Airlie heard the sound, and was muoh prostrated inconsequence. : -•'- • In consequence of the action of the local Land League, Captain Hurteph, the masterof the Kilkenny hounds, Ireland, has discharged his servants and left for England. This entails a loss to the town of $500,000; Lord Waterford also intends to close up his establishment. ' Lord Bosses tenants are in revolt, not one of 500 or more on his, property appearing on the 9th to pay rent. A number of farmhouses he has on his hands were burned:

The London Stock Exchange was in a greatly disturbed condition on the 9th, owing to the rapid flow pf gold to America and France. Financial circles attribute the crisis to the inflation in America, and the mad speculations in Paris. Sir Garnet Wolsely expresses the hope that the Channel tunnel will neve'A, be constructed. He considers it will--*^ lasting source of danger to England. Lord Granville, at a banquet given by the Lord Mayor of London to delegates to the Iron and Steel Institute, said, " Free trade has been the best policy for our industries, and though America and France have kept up protection, yet the exports of late years have been far greater than formerly."

In view of Gladstone's 'appeal for the support of loyal Irishmen, the Land League of County Meath hat resolved not to permit hunting this season. It will be remembered that the Empress of Austria had intended to hunt in this county this winter.

The Marquis of Waterford and hia friends were mobbed reoently while hunting with the Curraghmore bounds. .He has resigned the mastership. The dogi were stabbed with pitchforks and ; the hunters pelted with stones. In £ildare the Land League has given notice that if either the Marquis of Drogheda, the Earl of Mayo, LordCloncurry, John La Tooobe, or William Blacher appear in the field the hunting will be stopped. The gentlemen named are the principal landowners in the country, and resident on their estates.