THE SCULLING CHAM PIONSHIP.
[FEB PBSBS ASSOCIATION.] Received August 20th, 10 a.m. LONDON, August 14. Searle te not very well at present. He scales 12st stripped. O'Connor is In splendid condition. August Iβ. The European Matt thinks that O'Connor will beat Searle,

THE MAYBRICK CASE.
[PER PBESB ASSOCIATION.] Received August Mth, 10 a.m. London, August 13. Mr Matthews refused to receive a deputation at the House of Commons on the Maybrick case. Au excited meeting was held in London in favor of a reprieve. Mr Justice Stephen has had a confer ence with the Home Secretary on the Maybriok case. He approves of the verdict. August 15. Mr Matthews, Home Secretary, will consider the petitions in favor of Mrs Maybrick before sentence is carried out. These petitions have been signed by a quarter of a million people. " The Lancet, a medical journal, con siders the verdict was justified by the evidence. As usual in these cases, Mrs May brick has received plenty of offers of marriage, at least seven being known of; but besides these, oue in fatuated admirer has carried his folly so far as to offer himself as a sub stitute on the scaffold. August IG. Dr. Baird, in a letter to the Medical Journal, opposes the May brick verdict. August 17. The English Press Association states that Mrs Maybrick's sentence has been commuted to penal servitude for life, but the announcement is regarded aa premature, as Mr Matthews is still considering the case.
NEW ZEALAND.
