Condensed Cablegrams.

Manawatu Herald, Volume VII, Issue 233, 11 January 1889, Page 2

Condensed Cablegrams.

LONDON Lord Onslow will give a farewell banquet at Guilford on 6th February. The Queen has announced her intention of bequeathing her Jubilee presents to the nation. It is reported that Mr A. J. Balfour, Secretary for Ireland, is in imminent danger from the Invincibles, who are endeavouring to compass his as sassination. He is carefu'ly guarded by detectives. Mr A. J. Balfour, Secretary for Ireland, has intimated to the Irish pries' s that in future the military will thoroughly protect the police when thp latter are enforcing evictions. He aids that no parleying will ensue after those resisting eviction have been warned and called upon to vaoate their homesteads. The Directors of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce have canied a resolution to the effect that the Chamber expresses its entire aiherence to Fieetrnde principles. FOREIGN The Kepublican Congress have selected M. Jacques, a distiller, at; a candidate to oppose General Boulanger in the eloction for the Depart-

menfc of the Seine. General Boulanger has promised his support to che Panana Canal Company, and is' largely purchasing hdtidta: There id considerable excitement in this city, owing to the Eiffel Tower, which is being erected in the Chatnps de Mars in connection with the Ex hibition of 1889. visibly declining, consequent on the subsidence of the foundation. Baron de Lesseps has been offered the chairmanship of the new Panama Canal Company, which is to be formed, with a capital of twenty million pounds. President Carnot has refused to subscribe to the new company.