SAN FRANSISCO MAIL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 878, 20 September 1881, Page 2

SAN FRANSISCO MAIL ITEMS.

Mr Herbert Gladstone has been reelected for Leeds after his appointment as Junior Lord of the Treasury.

A Bill has been introduced this session for the relief of contumacious prisoners. It is intended to effect the release of the Kev Mr Green, a Ritualist, imprisoned at Lancaster.

A new company will shortly be formed with a capital of £4,000,000 to reclaim the waste lands of Ireland.

The dynamite scare in England is increasing, and all sorts of riimors are circulaied. Among them being one that the Duko of Edinburgh was specially marked out for assassination, Mr Bnidlaugh is suffering from erysipelas irom wounds caused in ejecting him from lib House of Commons, No general amnesty for Irish prisoners has been proclaimed. The subscriptions to the Land League for the year were £10,700, nearly all being from America. Only £Bl wero collected in Great Britain and £IC2 in Ireland. A mob smashed the windows of. tit Rectory andthose of other respectabl inhabitants in Tipperary who did nntillu initiate their houses in honor of Dillon' release. Tho Supreme Council of the Feniai Brotherhood have split on the dynamite (jtiestion, some favoring and others oppoaitiij thesclmmo. Colonel Clonuh, who distrihutedstampi for the Irish Law Courts, and who de : fiaudod the Government out of £10,00( by foiging atainj-s has been sentenced t( ten years' penal servitude. The Dutch is the official language determined on for the Transvaal. ' ;!•: The new American cable will be in operation on tho Ist November, Serious conflicts have occurred be tween soldiers and civilians at Nov Ross The latest phase of" Boycotting" ha occurred at Templomorc, Tipperary, Mr Lallor evicted tenants, and the people o the district have placed the evicted met for the last two Sundays in Mrs Lallor'i pew in the parish chapel, built by her self. • ■■■:■;/"! Tennyson is preparing another drama. Stanley, the explorer, is lying danger ously ill in Central Africa and is ne expected to recover. John Skitt and Co., Loivjon, oil mer chants,.receutly failed, aud the busines passed into the hands of the present soli partner, who has absconded to Spaii after putting into circulation £20,000 o forged bills. Tho Daily News says it hasbeemm evident. that English tenants mean tt bestir themselves to obtain a redress o their legitimate grievances, and tha various agencies are co-operating to brin; about legislation regarding English law laws. Mr Gladstone recently expresset his opinion favorablo to such legislation, ■