CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 9 October 1890, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. Mrs Booth, Wife of General B< oth, head of the Salvation Army, is dead. The shipping Federation has been registered as a company. Sir J. Macdonald, speaking at St' Johns, said that when the new Atlantic steamers were afloat Canada would fight a victorious battle for the better part of the trade with Asia, Australasia, and England. Tallow— Medium lnntton, 20s 6d ; do, beef, 255. , The quantity of wool catalogued up to date is 195,400 bales, of which 185,800 have been disposed of. The sales are proceeding with a diminished attendance. Biddings are less eager, and prices have a drooping tendency. The decline is chiefly in infer'or and faulty merinos. The Tipperary Bench, on hearing the charges against the Irish M.P.'s, refused to hear Mr T. Harrington, their counsel, owing to his frequent insu'ts. Mr Harrington then le^t the Co art. Mr Dillon denounced the Bench for depriving him, of the services of counsel at a critical moment. He was cheered by the assemblage in the Court but the Bench immediately had the Court cleared and adjourne d the proceedings. Females are being employed in the hopes of detecting Jack the Ripper. The bringing of the McKinley Tariff Bill into operation' on Saturday caused a good deal of excitement throughout the States. American merchants had special trains running to the Canadian frontier to hasten foreign deliveries. They also had numerous sfcoamers running as tugs to hasten up deliveries seaborn. There was tremendous excitement at the Customs Department as incoming steamers arrived, and the papers of the Cunard liner Etruia were lodged only half a minute before midnight. Several journals in European capital denounce the tariff. The Times stated that the embarrassments of Westgarth and Company, whose extensive commitments in Colonial government securities and American Railways has been a frequent topic of conversation on the Exchange, in the part closed their accounts on Saturday. The Banks have now arranged to take up the less marketable securities which are pledged as cover for loans, and no further anxiety need be felt.