Condensed Cablegrams.

Manawatu Herald, 12 February 1889, Page 2

Condensed Cablegrams.

LONDON

Major Lecaron, under examination before the Parnell Commission, said the iFeniane in America plotted another invasion of Canada in 1870, after their attempts in 1866 had been ignomimously defeated. He asserted that members of the -Clan-na-Gael Society had been employed by Mr J. J. O'Kelly, M.P. for Boscommon North, to ship aims to Ireland, and that they had received Messrs Parneli and Dillon inAmerica in 1881. He produced secret papsrs, passwords, and ciphers of the Society. Under cross-examination he confessed he had been secretly supplying. informa*. tion about conspirators to the British Government for years 1 . .; • .: ; The Times states, that: the failure of the South Australian loan was foreseen by experts^ atrft that it was due to over-confidence inrelyingv on the existing demand for colonial stocks, • The Times Mia that Colonial Governments evidently think they can now dit^qSA J^h the assistance of syncu^es^f&rgetful ,of the fact that the^ift^.have frequently averted fiaftSctaJ r fiascos. Her Majesty the:* Qu%t» .has .pfomised to lead from hett»Wij collation for the Exhibition ot Banedin, Clarkson Stanfield's picture of the opening of New London fridge!: The Prince and Princess of "Wales will also lend portraits of themselves. The owners all 'stipulate that collection must be fully insured.' Australian mutton, 8 jd ; NeW'Zealand mutton, 3|d, ; beef, s|d to 4Jd. M. Floquet, the French Premier, having expregged^ a desire to place General Boulanger under arrest, M. Freycinet made a strong opposition to the proposal, declaring that such a step wouU proyoke a bloody revolution. It is understood that the Premier has abandoned the iritaafcion indicated.

[i. The Pope*« Jubilee gift to Melbourue wilt be a gold chalice, bearing a painting of the Assumption.