CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 31 January 1891, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

London. Mr F. H. Jeune, Q.C., has been appointed Judge of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Court, vice Sir James Hannen, appointed to the Judicial Committee of the rrivy Council. In the House of Commons Sir James FergU3son stated that if; was unlikely that the Conveutiou 10 be submitted to the Portuguese Cortes respecting the Zambesi and Shire River districts would be favourably considered, as the one previous!}' submitted was not ratified. It is reported that the Tahitians are eager for American protection over the Group The statement that the Mozambique Company had been g anted a charter for the purpose of exploiting Portuguese East Africa is unfounded. The House of Commons unani- J mously expunged the motion forbidding Mr Bradlaugh to take an oath. Mr Goschen will introduce the Trust Funds Bill again this session. The trial of the Zalinski dynamite gun at Shoeburyness was a success. Mrs O'Shea iB seriously ill. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) have received the fol'owing cable message from their London office, dated London 27th hist : — "Wool. — The sales opened this day at level of last sales except fine greasy crossbred, for which market is firmer. The total quantity available, including w'Jol held over from last series, is 387,000 bales, 52,000 of which have been forwarded to the manufacturing district direct. A band of maskers sejzed a locomotive shed at Strathoven, ill>treated employes, and disabled the engines, In some places the rails have been soaped. The Caledonian Company refuses to re-engage strikers in consequence of their lawless conduct while the men were but. The railway men are providing against tho seizure of their funds. The lonic will collect a crew at an out port. Free sailors are easily available. German steamers are in the Thames trying to secure trade.