Condensed Cablegrams.

Manawatu Herald, 29 March 1889, Page 2

Condensed Cablegrams.

LONDON.

Under date of 25 March New Zealand hemp is quoted at LB7 5s to £37 10s per ton. Emigrants who have returned from the Argentine Republic in a destitute c mdition, complain that the country is crowded with unemployed. Colonel Hughes-Halleit, M.P. for Rochester, has resigned his seat in the House of Commons.

r :he Maori football team sail on Friday. Mr John Bright is dead. The Liberal-Unionist Party hold a conference at Birmingham on the 24th. April, at which important decisions are expected to be arrived at.

The Associated Chambers of Commerce h ive expressed sympathy win Imperial Federation on the motion of Mr S. C. Buxon, M.P. for Poplar.

The Government accepted a resolution to present an address to the Queen inviting the Great Powers to hoU a Can erence for the purpose of taking measures f.>r the suppression of si * very. The becting is 7 to 4 on Caiibr dge for the University boat race. The Eev M. Hanny, in his reply to the address welcoming him home from Australia, advocated English miuisteis occasionally going ><n circuit to Australian pulpits FOREIGN By a fire atMarselles 10,000 tons of copra were destroyed. The Dutoh Ministry has decided that the King is incapable of reigning in consequence of his enfeebled condition.