Condensed Cablegrams.

Manawatu Herald, Volume VII, Issue 268, 21 May 1889, Page 2

Condensed Cablegrams.

♦ — LONDON. The Shipping Committee have decided on the reduction of freights by 2s 6d per ton all round, after the despatch of vessels at present loading. It is likely that Mr Garner, of the firm of Williamson, Garner and Musgrove, will engage Mrs . Langtry for a three montjisr tour i& Australia. The widow of" Irving Bishop, the thought-reader, asserts that her hus- ' band was dissected while in a cataleptic trance, and adds that he had frequently lain Ma state of cataL pysy for a period of 48 hours. Mrs Bishop states ih£it : the. autopsy was performed before* his Mends and relatives were able to -interfere..- The will of the deceased gentleman ordered that his body was not tb'be touched until decomposition was in an advanced stat«. The widow accuses the medical gentlemen who performed tfce autopsy of murder. The appeal made by Lady Sandhurst against the decision of the Curt that #om'eh are ineligible for seats on the County Council has been dismissed, Lord Coleridge, the Lord Thief Justice of England, holding that, while women could exercise the right to vote tor candidates for County Council, they could not sit as members of the Council. It is reported that Her Majesty the Queen will shortly spend a week in Ireland. The Budget has passed through committee. _. ■ ■ FOKEIGN. The Emperor William of Germany has advised a deputation from the colliery proprietors who waited upon him to keep in close touch with their workmen and use every effort to provide for their welfare. It is probable , that a compromise will be arranged on the basis of eight hours' labour with an increased rate of wages. By a disastrous fire which broke out in Quebec, 4QO houses were destroyed. Over a thousand people havebeen seader^ji^an\eless and are camped out in .the fields.