ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 879, 2 September 1879, Page 2

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

The Colorado beetle has appeared m County dark, Iceland^ Lord Cranbrook, Secretary of State for India, speaking at a great Conservative gathering m the Crystal Palace to-day, took a hopeful view of the future condition of trade, now so depressed. He defended the Afghan war, because it had pacified a hitherto-disturbed country. He said he firmly believed that Russia would fulfil all her engagements by the treaty of Berlin, and pleaded for time for the Porte to accomplish reforms m Asiatic Turkey. In the first stage of the competition for the Albert prize at Wimbledon, Rigby, of the Irish Rifle Association scored 100 and Farrow, American, 97. Lieutenant-Colonel Fenton, Englishman, won the Curtis and Harvey prize. Frank Hyde, American, and Englishmen, tied for' the second prize, which they divided. In the Whitely competition Hyde obtained the sixth prize. Price, Boustead, and Co. army agents and merchants, Craven-street, Strand, have failed. Liabilities estimated at £600,000. The failure is entirely ascribed to the continued depression m coffee estates, m which the firm are interested. A large portion of the wall of the Import Dock, East India Docks, at Black wall, fell yesterday, carrying with it all the hydraulic cranes and quay sheds. Damage estimated at £100,000. The Nottingham team of cricketers leave for America on August 28. The enthusiasm for the Rev. Dr. Talmage continues unabated. During the past three weeks he has lectured nightly to thousands, and on Sundays he has preached to tens of thousands. The Warwickshire miners declare that the award of the umpire m the wages dispute means starvation to them. . Ogle and Picard, cotton spinners, Burnley, have failed for £25,000. The hop crop of Kent threatens to be a disastrous failure. The Rev. Dr. John Graham, Brighton, England, formerly of Sydney, was drowned on August 1, while bathing at Cape Mass.