Great Britain. Russia.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1344, 10 February 1881, Page 3

Great Britain.

Russia.

In the Queen's Speech, Her Majesty said trade gradually was improving, and an abundant harvest had greatly decreased the distress in Ireland, but she was grieved to state that the social condition of Irelaud had assumed an alarming character. Agrarian crimes had multiplied, and the administration of justice had been defeated by tho inability to get evidence ; and an o\tended syotcin of terroiism established in various parts of the country had paralysed private lights and the performance of oivil duties. The ordinary law had proved insufficient fco .secure tho protection of lifo find property and personal liberty of action. It is stated that, acting on letters from the Pope to the Archbishop of Dublin, emphatic iuotriictions have been issued to Catholic Prelates to oppose Communistic doctrines which have been preached and practised. Gale, the pedestrian, broke down after completing 2233 miles of his proposed feat of 2500 miles in 1000 hours. The gross revenue of the United Kingdom for 1880 is £83,200,000. All prisoners for debt in Scotland have been released, under an Act of Parliament. Hanlnn and Robs, on the Ist January, issued a challenge for any two oarsmen in the world for a double-skull race for £500 to £1000 a-side, the race to come off early in the season. By a railway accident at "Wakefield, Yorkshire, seven were killed and thirty wounded.

German colonists at Volga, heretofore prosperous, are Btarving. Before the Czar left Lividia, the police found a newly-dug tunnel from a barn near the railway. The owner of the barn, who had. a son executed in Siberia, shot himself on the discovery. »