CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 3 February 1891, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

London. Baron de Worms, iv answer to a question in the House of Commons, said Government approved of the treatment of the Rev Shirley Baker by Sir John Thurston, High Commissioner of the Western Pacific. Sir J. Fergusson, iv the House of Commons, said the Powers interested had consented to the nomi» nation of a President at Apia. General Booth made a formal beginning with hissehei"oe at King's Cross Receiving House on the 80th. Mr Balfour's Irish Fund amounts now to £42,000. Factory- made butter, ox s.s. Tonic from New Zealand, sold at 115s per cwt. Tyser's steamer Hawkes Bay is loading a 1 Antworp for New Zealand. Wool is firm, with prices unchanged. Hemp. — Auckland, fair quality, averages £'24 10s ; Wellington, fair quality, £22 10s. The wool market is spirited, and Amerioan firm 1 aro making large purcha-of. TIIO appeal ca^se of Duncan v Knowles was argued yesterday In August last Mi3B Gladys Knowles, 21 years of ago, and of an attractive apjearan c was awarded £10,000 damages at the Lewes Assize? against Mr L. F. Duncan, editor and proprietor of the Matrimonial News, aged between 63 and 64, for a breach of promise of marriage, and it was from this decision the lafc or appealod. The Qjurt ordered that the amount of damages be reduced to £6,500, on con'lirion that the costs in the action were paid by Mr Dune in within one month, otherwise the veidict ol the jury was to remain intact. Mr C. Bradlaugh, M. P. for Northampton died on 81 January, age 57.