ADDITIONAL ENGLISH TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 359, 27 May 1874, Page 3

ADDITIONAL ENGLISH TELEGRAMS.

The steamer Atrato, after repairing and passing inspection, left on Easter Monday, with 400 emigrants for Canterbury and Otago. Several of the emigrants who left the first time refused to proceed in her, and returned to their homes, after- enjoying the trip for several days, and free rations. A terrible explosion has occurred in the mine of the Duke of Enfield. It caused the death of 53 persons, and injured 20 others.

Joseph Arch is to arrange an extensive emigration of farm laborers from England to America.

The steamship Faraday has begun to load with the new Atlantic cable, which will be laid direct to the United States.

Two railway accidents have occurreed inland, resulting in the death and injury of 20 persons. Gladstone, in reviewing the Budget, said he regarded the removal of a penny from the Income Tax as an important step towards the abolition of the taxes.

A Bill abolishing sugar duties has finally passed the House of Commons. A special meeting- of the committee relative to the Agricultural Laborers' Union granted £1000 for the relief of the locked-out laborers, 4000 of whom are now on the Union's funds. A London letter says that in the Eastern countries of England there is a bitter conflict between the fanners and the laborers ; the latter have joined the Union. In Warwickshire they demanded an extra Is. a week : this was refused the laborers, consequently they struck- on one or two farms. ' The farmers retaliated by locking-out all the Union men, and declaring that henceforth they, will employ only non-unionists. ° The landlords supported the fanners, and threaten to eject those

who do not hold aloof from relation with Unionists. The Parliamentary rote to defray expenses of the Ashantee expedition amounts to £900,000. A new movement is on foot in London for a Parliament of working men; an organisation is formed and committee appointed. A Bill has been introduced into Parliament at the investigation of the Early-Closing Association for closing all shops at 8 p.m. Dr. Kenealy has been excluded from the mess of Oxford Circuit for want of etiquette in the Tichborne. This deprives him of professional status, no junior being allowed to engage with him. In a letter to the Press, Kenealy indignantly denied the charges made against him, and says he dissents from the verdict of the jury. He believes the claimant still to be Tichborne, and that the real Arthur Orton will be in England before 12 months and acknowledged as such, and the defendant released. The report of the Eastern Extension Australia and China Telegraph Company shows the year's profits to be £156,375. A dividend equal to 6£ per cent, was declared, and £39,950 carried to the reserve fund. The British steamship Queen Elizabeth, from Calcutta for England, became a wreck at Punta Arenas, in Spain. Twenty-three lives wero lost, including H. J. Allardice, missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, wife, and. three children.