CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 11 July 1890, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. Her majesty the Qnnen hns presented Mi«s Dorothy r l«ni)ant, who is hethrothed to Mr Stanley, with her miniature sat in brilliants and a look of hair.

Hf-r Majesty the Queen was charmed with Madame Melba's sirigirig, and expressed herself proud of colonial talent.- Blue presented Madame Melba with a superb jc^ei'acl btooc'h, , , It is repdftod thslt t England will recognise the Frencii pfdi&ctoiate^ over Madagascar ou condition that, tbe French Government waive their rights in Zanzibar. L grate political aud fiuancipl crisis continues In t).?s Argentine Republic It is currently reported that Lord Randolph Churchill ha« become reconciled to his former colleagues, aftd that he veturnes to the Cabinet* It is reg-arded as imminent that be will receive either the Secretaryship of India or Ireland, and. in the event of the latter Mr A. J. Ba four would lead the House of Commons in sue. cession to Mr W. H. Smith, who is likely to accept a peerage. The excitement among the members of the police force is decreasing, but the officers are now agitating for an increase of pay, Tho police have threateiW a general strike unless a constable, who was degraded for the part he had taken in th* present agitation is reinstated and all demands conceded by Tnesdav. New Zealand hemp is steadier, and it; is now believed that this fibre has touched bottom prices. Mr Cecil Raike*, PostmasterGeneral, has dec'ined to recognise the Union formed by the postni*n IVivery of mails has been delayed owing to tho attitude assumed, by the men. They will come to a final decision as to going out on strike to night. The te'egrnph clerks have intimated that after Saturday next they will not work overtime. The d"ck clerks, who state they, are worse paid than dock labourers are abont to strike. The Grenadier Guards, cantoned at Wellington Barrack*, being ordered out for kit inspection, a body ef men refused to paeade and locked theirselves in their rooms. Th staff was sent for, and tho inspection abandoned. The men thea paraded, biasing and hooting Colonel Mait* land. Thft War Office is discussing tho matter, and the regiment will probab'v be ordered on foreign service. The men complain of being harassed by useless drills aud need* less inspections, A co-il famine is being experienced in Dublin owing to the strike of the porters. The body of a girl twelve years of ago, has been discovered violated and mutilated much in the same style as the former victims attributed to Jack the Ripper.