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New Zealand Mail, Issue 764, 22 October 1886, Page 17

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Br Electric Telegraph. — CopraiGHi.

(special to united press association.)

London, October 19.

Mr Cbas. N. Norton, late member for Bridport, has been appointed Attorney. General for Western Australia. /

The Times praises the Victorian manufactures, but considers that their textile, fabrics hardly compare with those exhibited by New South Wales and New Zealand. The same paper gives great credit to South Australia for her display of wines, which are stronger and sweeter than those of other colonies.

London, October 20. The British garrison at Wady Haifa, in the Soudan, which has suffered severely from heat and disease, has implored to be relieved. London, October 20.

Mr Rodolfo Fink has been appointed Consul at Melbourne for the Argentine Republic. M. Sadi-Carnot, the French Minis, ter of Finance, who had sent in bis resignation of that portfolio, has reconsidered his decision, and will now retain office.

(REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.)

London, October 19.

The mails per R.M.S. Sutlej, which left Melbourne on September 7, were delivered in London to-day, via Brindisi.

London, October 20.

The Socialists have announced their intention of carrying out the proposed demonstratidn ou the 9th proximo, despite the warning of the police, and -will adhere to all their plans. ' St. Petersburg, October 19.

A report is current here to-day that the Grand Duke Nicholas (the Czare•witch) is seriously ill. .Rangoon, October 19. Lieut.-General Sir Herbert Macphersou, commanding the British forces in Burmah, is suffering from a sharp attack of fever.

(AGE SPECIALS—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

(Per s.s. Wairarapa at Auckland.) London, October 13,

European affairs are approaching a very •critical juncture, alarming reports being received from all quarters of intrigue and menace. The French press has been very bellicose in tone during the last few weeks, and during the past few dayß General Boulander’s journals have been violently attacking Germany. The journals state in unequivocal terms that France can now send into the field a better army than any other nation in the world, and the time has come

when Bhe should avenge the affair of 1870-71. Unusual excitement prevails In Berlin. The latest statements put forward by General Bonlander’a organs are to the effect that war must come at an early date, and that as France ia fully prepared for the coi.fl.ict, the sooner it comes the better. Some sensation has been occasioned by the announcement of a new development in the general signs of the near approaching war. It ia resolved, to make a vigorous attempt to terminate tie French protectorate within the Celestial territory, and France has been informed she will have to abandon what she claims to be her rights consequent upon her recent disputed conquest, or face another determined collision on the part of the reorganised Chinese army. Following the arrest of Captain “ Moonlight,” the leader of the gang of midnight marauders, the wildest rumors have been circulated of offers that have been made to the police authorities to disclose the entire work of agrarian “ circles,” and also divulge the names of some prominent men who are chiefly implicated in the direction of the bloody plots. Jft is rumored that the National Land League i 3 not new the chief agency by which the agitation for Ireland’s demands is maintained There is no shadow of doubt as to something akin to open revolt having occurred among the leaders of the League. They are greatly alarmed at the decrease that has been taking place in the receipts. On the part of the better class of Irish tenantry there seems to be a growiog tendency to p3y r9ot for their holdings, and iD almost every case where landlords have offered to make a fair reduction in rent and arrears, the offer has been accepted. One influence that is telling with marked effect against the League is the loud and bitter complaint that is being made by the evicted tenants. They allege they were counselled to withstand the demands made upon them by landlords, and were promised that in the event of being evicted, the League would support them and save them from suffering and hardship. This, it is alleged, the League has almost wholly neglected to do. The Executive of the League has threatened to dissolve the organisation if branch Leagues neglect to support the centre body. Mr J. G. Biggar aud other extreme Painellitei are advocating that the evicted persons shall seek shelter in the workhouses. Biggar argues that this would be the most effective way of reta’iating against the landlords, as they have to pay seven-eighths of the entire amount of poor rate. There is no question that those who have bad the misfortune to be evicted are suffering from great hardship, and as cold weather has already‘set in, with every prospect of a long and hard winter, something will have to be speedily done to ameliorate the condition of the homeless peasantry. Messrs Marshall and Snelgrnve, of London, drapers, have subscribed £IOOO toward the Imperial Institute. The Chief Babbi will make a handsome donation toward the Institute. The Jewish community in London are supporting the movement in a very liberal* manner. The Chief Babbi says the hearty good-will displayed by the Jews is to be accepted as a testimony to loyalty of the Jews to fie Crown.

Parliamentary returns just issued show that there has been a considerable revival in the trade of the country. This, combined with the fairly successful harvest Beason, seems to have had the effect of removing the cloud of depression.'