MAIL NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 22 March 1880, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

♦ Sir Stafford Northcote announced in ; the House of Commons that the Government would advance Ireland three* j i quarters instead of half a million. i Fever has appeared in Tipperary and I West Cork. It is reported that the Princess Louise . has returned to Canada against her will. , Dr Bussell charges the British troops in Afghanistan with excesses. The Japenese Government is making I extensive war preparations, the Chinese i are equally active. High military officers io Bussia are said to sympathise with the Nihilists. ; A Russian transport vessel has been lost in the Caspian sea, and two thousand , troops .perished. Mr Bright proposes that the Govern* merit should advance three«fourths of the t purchase money of farms in Ireland, the [ principle and interest to be repayable in thirtysfive years. The Duke of Edinburg has heen ordered on coast guard service in Ireland, and to , take charge of relief stores. ; At Newcastle-on»Tyne on February 9, . Boyd gained an easy victory over Elliott, i Boyd declines to row Hanlon, The American demand for iron causes unprecedented activity in the British trade. , It is impossible to overdraw the situa- . tion in Ireland, so rapidly do matters bei come worse. Three hundred thousand people are slowly starving, and can only , be kept alive by superhuman efforts on i the part of their fellow creatures. Some I are living on one meal a day of turnif sor f meal, thousands more sre consuming their list potatoes. At Clonmel a demonstration of unem- * ployed was made demanding work or bread. The German Government will impose , a tax on all persons exempt from military i service. The Liberal demonstration at Birmina- » ham was on a grand scale. Messrs > Bright, Chamberlain, and Veraon Harcourt were amongst the principal speakers. Vernon Harcourt repudiated the preten- } sions of fossilised Whigs and disguised f Tories to ncquire the leadership. Bright , denounced the Government war policy saying — " It the country sustains it, let us abandon all claim to be Christians. "3L say take down your ten commandma^B from the inside of your church&^j^^H no longer you believe inthc^^^^^^H the Mount. Abandon Jj^^^^^^^| pretensions or abandon J^^^^^^^^H Mr O'Donnell, M.H^^^^^^^H r the House of Comn^^^^^^^^^^^H i abuse by > worse than treason. ) wept The National^^^^^^^^^H to the^^^^^^^^^^H gress for according th^^^^^^^^^^^J i floor to Mr Parnplt. Tbe National Zeitung r^^^|^|^H| ; nells tour to America, and considers it disgraceful for Home Bulers to make political capital out of their couatry's troubles. The Goyernment intend making a grant for seed for the Irish small farmers. The Irish and English landlord ques* tion increases ia importanceMr Bright's colleagues accept substantially his scheme to aid tenants in bnying farms by Treasury loans. Tbe Lord Mayor of Dublin writes that the English people fail to realise the gravity of the Irish crisis, and except prompt assistance be forthcoming tens of thousands of Irish people must die of starvation. He complains that England has contributed less to the Mansion House fund than Melbourne. Baroness Burdett Coutts has sent £500 to Ireland by a special agent to ensure its proper distribution. Quarrels have arisen in the management of the various relief funds, and it is hoped that means will be devised for concentrating the charities nnder one bead. David, Daly and Killen will be tried in Maroh. In the meantime the former will be sent to the Continent to enlist , sympathy and material assistance for tbe Irish sufferers. Subscriptions have been opened in Bombay. One Native banker gave £1000. The French Bishops haye appealed to the Cures to collect funds for a similar purpose.

James Eeene, of JNew York, proposes to send a ship bal of wheat to Ireland as his donation. Under the Presidency of the Arch* bishop of Paris, an Irish relief committee has been formed. The delegates from the Pensylvanian State Convention (Bepublican) have been instructed to vote for General Grant at the National Convention by thePennsyl* vanian State. At Bacoon Strait, in San Francisco Bay, Daniel Peakey beat Hoyte in the single scull race of February Ist, making the best time on record, five miles in 34 mm. 30 sees. Eleven Chinese were burnt to death in a San Francisco foundry. At Spriogfields, Mass., Mr Parnell attacked the veracity and condemned the origin of Lord Alfred Churchill, who, by cable, denied Parnell's statement that Queen Victoria contributed nothing to the Irish famine fund in 1847. and also restrained the Su'tan of Turkey from giv* ing. The County Hospital of Milwaukee was burnt on February 3rd, and two lives lost. j There was a heayy storm along the Atlantic sea-board on February 3rd, but few disasters ire reported. The new invention called the multiplex telegraph is said to be humbug. Jay Gould's purchase of tbe Central Pacific railroad stock excites attention, and his main object ia surmised to be to secure control of ail roads having Cali* fornia routes in t heir charters. He will next tnrn to the St. Louis and San Francisco, and Iron Mountain roads, the only ones he fears as rivals.