Condensed Cablegrams.

Manawatu Herald, 15 March 1889, Page 2

Condensed Cablegrams.

; LONDON. ' Mr Isaac Pitman, the originator of ' t Pitman's system of shorthand writing, was banquetted on the occasion I of the celebration of the jubilee of shorthand. It is intended to strike > a medal in commemoration of the 1 event. ' Two clerks of the Provincial Bank , of Ireland, who absconded with £25, ■ 000 of the bank's money, have been 1 arrested at Barcelona. 1 At the last tallow auctions ' t 1575 casks were offered, of which ! 750 were sold. Mutton, medium » quality, 23s 6d ; beef, medium, 235. f At the public sale of Australian ' woolled sheepskins there was ] an average attendance of Home p and foreign buyers. The biddings f were leager, and the market firmer. f OrpssDreds, fine, greasy, rea ised 6d ; » *mM° r an^ au^*y> sd j v erinoes, '• i^H& m K rea3V » u^HRI Maharijah of Cashmere has ■' |H^ discovered plotting to poison * ijpTßritish resident. Upon discovery . ne offered to abdicate. i J^ew Zealand hemp is quoted at r £36 5s to £36 10*. ■. .§ir Charles Warren, late Chief g Cominiasioner of Polioe, has been I appointed to the command of the I British troops at Singapore. Lord Randolph Churchill, in a £ letter to The Times ou the proposed . naval expenditure, attacks the proposals of the First Lord of the

Admiralty, on the ground that the Admiralty, cannot be trusted with he expenditure of such a large sum is proposed. In the Houge of Commons Mr Stanhope, Tfnder"-Secretary for War, laid that he hoped the work of attnng all the British coaling stations srould be completed before the end if fHe year. Large contracts of heavy guns Had been granted to Tickers, of Sheffield. FOEEIGN The Due D'Aumale h«s returned to Paris where he was warmly welcomed. He publicly expressed his gratitude to president Carnot for the permission extended to him to re* turn from exile.