GREAT BRITAIN.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6164, 7 February 1882, Page 3

GREAT BRITAIN.

The associated Chambers of CommGrce are moving in the matter of cheapening telegraphic communication with foreig countries.

The association of Lynne weavers have been successful in their strike, and resumed work at 10 per cent, advance.

Miss Jennie Lee and J. P. Barrett leave for the colonies by the February steamer. Mis 3 Lee is the original " Little Jo," which she takes with her, also "The Colonel," and possibly J3ardon's"Di Vol cons/' with other neiv pieces.

Mr Gladstone ha 3 again remitted TO per cent, off the rentals of his Hawarden estate.

The case of the Marquis of Huntley was under investigation at the Mansion House on January 12fch. He i 3 charged with obtaining £2377 from Benjamin Nicholson uuder false pretences. The Marquis has disappeared. The difficulty arose out of a racing affair. Several members of the Calloghan branch of the Ladies' Land League have been committed to prison in Limerick in default of bail.

Mr Forster'a scheme for placing tho disturbed districts in Irelend under the supervision and control of five stipendiary magistrates, of whom Mr Clifford Lloyd is one, has now been carried out, but there is no falling of in the number of agrarian outrages.

The Earl of Shrewsbury, who eloped with Mrs Millar Munday last summer, is before the public again in adiscreditablerole. Not satisfied with receiving his tenantry with that lady on his arm when they came to congratulate him in November laat on his attaining his majority, he has saddled himself with her graceless brothers, four in number ; a fifth, Mr C. A. Palmer Morewood, of Alfredton Hall, Derbyshire, was terribly assaulted by these four on Christmas night, and beaten within an inch of his life because he refused to sign a document conveying to them certain properties. They then fled and took refuge with the Earl of Shrewsbury and their sister, but were arrested and put under £1000 bail each. The Earl became their bail. One of these worthies helped to give the Earl of Shrewsbury a sound thrashing when he wa3 discovered with the sister on the Continent. The Earl is evidently of an easy living disposition. Some revelations in recent cases have caused a scare in London about poisoning, and means are to be taken to restrict the sale of poisons.