Condensed Cablegrams. LONDON.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 6 May 1890, Page 2

Condensed Cablegrams. LONDON.

♦ . ■ In thfl Hoase of Comm ns on the 80th April the Deceased Wife's Si-ter Bil pas edthe second reading by a m-jority of 67- Speaking during the debate, Sir James Ferguson said that the agitation in Adelaide in favour of the Bill was entirely artificial and fictitious, and was contrary to the whole religious opinion of th«* col ny. M'ssr.B Penny and Hey man, a firm in Blenheim, New Zetland have made a present of a quantity ol frozen mutton and butter to Sir H, A. Isaacs, the Lord Moyor ofLon* d >n. On the first there was a small procession of Socialists along the Victoria Embankment to By<k Park. As yt no serious disturbance hai occurred on the < 'ontinent in connee ion with the labour celebrations, At '"trie eight skirmishes toov plnee between the mob and police and military. At Ouda Pesth the military charged and suppresed the rioters, Elsewhere is. tranquil. The labour demonstration in Pari* passed off qii'etly. The censation o1 work was iairly general throughoul France. Th- labour celebrations were scar caly obse'ved in Germany. Fifty thousand men in Vi«nm paraded the streets yesterday ad vocating the eight hour i . uttw I'l here was no .. disturbance, and it the evening the crowd quietly dis persed At other places oh the Contiueni [ and America nothing «ventfui hap I pened Eeplyi g to a debate on the Irisl Land Purchase Bill in the House oi • ouimons, Mr Balfour said, in re ferem c to au-gestion that the pur chuse of aud would be placed iiudei the control of County Councils, thai it woul i be a r. sh a:d dangeroai pjincip • to adopt at pr sent, an<] one most like y to tliwart the pur chase. He was not opposed t>> Mi Paruflls scheiue, providma; it wai made Biibordinttte to the Governmeni plan On a division being taken the Bi 1 was r*ad a second time bj 848 to 268. Speaking in the House of Com moils on the 2nd the Marquis oi Hartington dec'ared that land pur clu.se ii> Ir. land must pr cede local Government.