ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1569, 25 July 1882, Page 3

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

TnE following sumitfary of news is from papers received by the mail via San Francisco, which arrived in Auckland on Sunday. The news is up to the Ist of July :—: —

General Summary. The land agitation has broken out in Prussia. A land owner of Leba was assasinated on the 10th, and a man named Olsen Jackcr, was arrested for the crime. He confessed that he had been paid to commit the crime by agitators travelling about the country prnaching that it was only by killing landowners that reform will be obtained. A contract has been signed at Paiis between Baron Reinach, a member of the Canadian-Pacific Syndicate, and Charles De Cases, of Winnipeg, agent of the above company. The society will select 2,000,000 acres of land in the neighbourhood of the Canadian railway line, and expects to establish thereon 150 to 200 families a year till the whole is colonised. James Thompson and Co., ship and insurance brokers, of Liverpool, have failed for 100,000dols. Vaughan and Co., of the same place, for 200,000d015. The resignation of Iguatieff as Russian Premier gives great satisfaction to the German Press. A Berlin paper calls him ' ' one of the most dangerous and unprincipled intriguers against the peace of Europe." The latest Fenian scare is a threat to blow up the Purfleet magazine. Threats of assassination have been made against the Duke of Westminster, and his servants are alarmed by the talk of blowing up the house. Personally the Duke attaches no importance to the threats. In the House of Lords, on the 12th ult., Lord Dalhousie moved a second reading of the bill legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister. It was rejected. Ayes, 12S ; noes, 123. Hanlan's physicians have issued a card stating he has typhoid fever, and will not be able to go into training for at least two months. It was thought by the spoi ting fraternity that Hanlan, by his course, was endeavouring to influence the betting. By a violent gale in Moscow, on tho 12th, the Exhibition building was greatly damaged. During its prevalence a fire broke out in tho Ragosake quarter, and 100 houses, mostly of wood, were destroyed. The Lord Downshire, said to be the largest sailing ship ever constructed, is on the way (June 15) from Belfast to San Francisco. She is constructed of steel, is 230 feet long, and has four masts. Mr John Barry, M.P. for Wexford, purposes to canvass the United States shortly, in order to reconcile the contending factions of Fenians and Land Leaguers, and at the same time secure increased financial support to Parnell's policy. Mr Trevel yan, Chief Secretary of Ireland, had offered to enlarge the American suspect, John Gannon, if he would leave Ireland, but the offer was refused, and consequently be cannot be released. A frightful double murder was perpetrated at Ardrahan, near Gort, County Galway, ou the afternoon of June 8. Mr Bourke, of Rahassane Park, who for some time past has been under special protection, was returning home, accompanied by his bodyguard, a soldier belonging to the Royal Dragoon Guards, when several shots were fired by some persons concealed behind a wall. The shots took immediate and fatal effect upon both Mr Bourke and his guard. The police, as soon as the crime was discovered, set out to track the assassins, who have, however, not! yet been arrested. Commenting on the execution of Guiteau, the London Times says the American people should insist upon immediate reforms of their judicial procedure, which would prerent? another such degrading scene as that of Guiteau's trial. A land like the United Statos is not secure against producing other Guiteaus, as happily it may reckon on producing other Garfields. The Duke of Edinburgh narrowly escaped drowning on the 28th, with a fishing party at Bayonne, Spain. He was first carried tinder, and after half an haur's struggle reached the shore, Mr Gladstone received a delegation ol Scotch farmers on the 21st ultimo. # He Bpoke strongly in favour of the compensation for improvements made by tenants, and the abolition of entail, though he despaired of legislation on the subject this year. Herr Meling, one of the principal navigators of the German navy, was ar] rested at Keil, charged with furnishing the Russian Government with copies of the plans of German defences, for which he was paid 150,000 roubles. He confessed his guilt, and then- committed suicide. , . k A historical'paintlng of Charles 1., by Van Dyck, owned l>y the Duke of Hamilton, was recently sold for , 770 guineas. VanDyck's portrait of Henrietta of Lorraine, , put up at the same sale, brought '2ooo guineas. ' H6nryAyard Beech^r, ..alludhigto, th,e j labour strikes so general in the Eastern States during., the month, said,, in. Jus ser- : raon,on r tlie 2^>Maf he' r enatea the,m ' as iustifiab'ldf"4ncl!,that r "th&i l^Enigh^'of . lAbour. r W6Vtfiiig t[ Men'sTJnio t iir&f6?rwere y pdpular^u^^F^^eidauca'tiomof 1 ; the common 'nepplejvas lie approvMf ;Ho ,did •noHMwa'y&r howlv^r, 1 justify I" str]kes»fktTtioijght*th^ ,ohikpeuing*.ofr