ENGLISH NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 438, 14 April 1880, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS.

;.- ■ w-i ; r^;: 'g; : ; .: It U reported 'that'v the Jwheat "crop* on

the Pacific coaat this year,will bevetfy heavy. .• ; ■

Thesteamship Great Eastern is;b9ing fitted up'to convey live cattle from-Ainerir catoEurppe. -\ |: '.,..,.'■ .:"'!'.,:.*'. Lord Derby, iri r a letter Jto his tenants, has declared himself, a supporter -of : the Liberal side.

EiirrGrey. haying, in a letter expressed hiVdistrust of the Liberals and Gladstone's. leadershipV'Gladstone replied vindicating himself and" reiterating his intention to follow the leadership of Lords Hartington and Granville. The country, however, is still doubtful about this being practicable. •'• '' April B. The question of Foreign policy has been regarded as of much smaller issue by trade and finance. There has aho been a desire to give the Liberals an innings, j The majority of Liberals who supported the Foreign policy have been re-elected. Batoum, on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, now belonging to Russia, has been re-converted into a strong fortress. Terrible consular reports from Anatolia where the population am dying from starvation, caused partly through misrule. April 3. The new Parliament meets on the 29th inst. The death is announced of Lord Rivers, patron of the.Tjohborne claimant. \ ■ • Wheat is drooping owing to large arrivals from Anierica and elsewhere. Wool is very- firm, with steady, enquiry.-