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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 243, 20 August 1879, Page 2

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(PER PRESS AC3NCY. WELLINGTON. ' Tuesday, A deputation of the Liberal Reform Association waited on Messrs Levin and Greenfield, candidates for the City, to-day to know whether, if the Association voted for them they would support Sir George Grey. They replied that they would be thankful for the vote of the Association, but that they could not support Sir George Grey. It is thought the Liberal Association will now bring out Anderson of the Chronicle in place of Fisher. BLENHEIM. Tuesday.

Henderson addressed the electors last night, the Hall being crammed, A resolution declaring him to bo a fit and effr cient representee was carried. Ward severely attacked Sir George Grey, accusing him of preventing the passing of Liberal measures. The latter part of the meeting was very stormy. LONDON. 4th July. The weather in the British Islands and

Europe genorally is most extraordinarily unseasonable, and the crops ave everywhere seriously endangered by continuous rain. No present sign of change, everything veiy backward. Widespread distress prevails in the agricultural districts, causing reductions in rent on all large estates.

Gladstone, replying to a letter from the Warwickshire Tenant Farmers' Association, alluded with favor to the proposal mooted for enquiry into the present agricultural depression. Bright, replying to a letter from the Scotch tenant farmers on the same subject says that the land question is moving on rapidly, '' I mean the whole question of primogeniture, entail, and settlement of the rights of tenants, and interest of the public. Bad harvests are the cause of the present depression and consequent distress. Beyond this is the question of what influence American crops and importation? will have upon England, and indeed upon Europe. If we are to believe what we hear from the United States, there are great changes about to take place

that will affect not only our agricultural, but political condition and institutions. I can assure you there is a rapidly growing opinion among leaders of the Liberal Party in favor of changes in which the cultivators of the soil have a very great interest."

Goulstone and East, accompanied by Captain Barry, who just landed in England after a long residence in Australia and New Zealand, paid a visit to Arthur Orton at Portsea Island convict prison. Barry states he was intimately acquainted with Orton andDe Castro, and recognised the prisoner as Tom De Castro.