London.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 12 August 1890, Page 2

London.

Thb Grenadier Ga a-ds have arrived Eafa l^ at the Bermudas. Benson, the Jubilee Plunger has , agreed to pay hiai creditors 5a in th« £. Kremler who was executed at New York was undaunted when placed iv ( he chair for execution. The'eleetric onrren<g were imperfect and ai contact were also faulty, , f hree shocks had to be administered { '•efore Heath rem tad, but the eondamned man wao unconscious after , the firit. Portions of the body were burnt, , and smoke waa teen issuing from ; hiibat'f. j Speaking at the banquet at the , Mansion, House, the Marquis of Salisbury said the condition of Europe at the present moment wa» i uninteresting because it was emin' i ently peaceful, and lift was confident ■ that the agreements entered into by England with Germany and Prance with respeci to African territory had j removed what might hay« baen a < cause ■'f future quarrels. Referring | to Egypt, he said that that the < country had become prosperous ow 1 ing to English administration, and it < would only be evacuated when England found that Egypt waa able < to sscure her own proptrity. Speak- 1 ing of Ireland, he said affairs there 1 w«re mor« peaceful ami prosperous ] and the people more contsntsd than they were in 1 886.