The Poole Telegram. — 1880-06-18 (Poole, Dorset, England)

THE HARES AND RABBITSBILL.—IR the House on Tuesday, Sir W. Harcourt replying to Mr. Donaldson-Hudson, said that at present the tenant was rated as if the game ' belonged to him, and if the landlord reserved the game the tenant could recover from the landlord in respect of such rate. If the Hares and Rabbits Bill were passed, the law therefore as to rating would remain as it was.  Wl6B  The boiler of a Spanish vessel exploded as she entering Santiago de Cuba, kiling 20 men and injuring 113, including 88 soldiers. Colonel Gordon has made known that he is on his way to China, "his fixed desire being to persuade the Chinese not to go to war with Russia." General Stewart is to withdraw his troops from Afghanistan as fast as is compatible with their health, and if possible, by the last day of October, we are to evacuate Cabul. The Gobs on Tuesday with far-fetched ingenuity considers that Colonel Gordon's proceeding was planned by Lord Beaconsfield! It hopes that Mr. Gladstone and Lord Granville will mark it with public displeasure. Messrs. Napier, Glasgow, have received orders from the Admiralty for the hulls and machinery of three fast steam steel cruisers, to be named Leander, Phmton, and Arethusa. They will have large coal capacity, and engines of 5,000 horse power. At the adjourned inquest on the body of a female, found under suspicious circumstances in the cellar of 139, Harley-street, London, the medical evidence went to show that death had been caused by a stab in the breast, and the jury returned a verdict of wilful:murder against some person or persons unknown. Hyde-park is a breathing-ground and a pleasure resort for the people of London and not a camp. It would be impossible to make it the scene of a military review without an exhibition of social favouritism and class preferences, the display of which would create an uneasy and even irritated feeling among large numbers of ordinary people. Mr. O'Donnell is becoming, in a political sense, the oiled and curled darling of the Opposition. He has placed himself on their side of the House, morally as well as physically, and he now usually speaks amid. their rapturous applause. These Tory cheers are easily earned. Dr. Kenealy was able to gain them at will by adapting himself to the prejudices of the Conservative squires. The increase in the licences paid upon the larger public-houses will not meet with much opposition. Many people will feel it an advantage, as well as a novelty, to have a Chancellor of the Exchequer who is not afraid of the publicans, and a Government which owes them no gratitude. It is high time that they should pay, as they have not done hitherto, their share of the national burdens. A dreadful attempt to murder a girl with a pickaxe was made near Sheffield on Sunday by a wheelwright. He asked a domestic servant at his grandmother's for a kiss, but she declined, and he threw her to the ground. The girl struggled desperately to escape, and he then attacked her with a pickaxe, which penetrated her neck and jaw and inflicted frightful wounds. Her hands and one of her ears were also badly cut, and if help had not arrived she would have been killed. The Liberation Society held its twelfth triennial conference on Thursday, at the Cannon-street hote/, London. Mr. Henry Lee, M.P., who presided, said the society was on the eve of another triumph—the Burials Bill. Cheering prospects were before them in the desire for Christian unity, and that unity would be increased if the Church of England were disestablished. The next question to be solved was the disestablishment of the Scotch Church. Resolutions on the subject of disestablishment in Scotland were unanimously adopted. Another extensive fire has occurred in the Pennsylvania oil regon. More than a hundred thousand barrels of oil have been consumed by the flames; and the latest accounts state that the fire is still spreading. Later accounts from America state that the petroleum fire at Pennsylvania has been extinguished, after burning for three days. The loss is estimated at a million and a half of dollars. Lightning struck a petroleum tank and a second lightning stroke extended the mischief. 320,000 barrels of oil were destroyed, and also a large portion of the town of Titusville.