CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 14 March 1891, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

4 London. The enquiry into the death of Mr R. L. Antrobus, junior partner in the firm of Coutts and Co., who was supposed to have committed suicide, has resulted in a verdict of accidental death. Trade returns shows that the imports for the past month have increased by £2,293.000 and the exports diminished by £614,000 as compared with the corresponding term of 1890.

The man who broke the bank a Monte Carlo afterwards lost his winnings and £15,000 in addition. Sir Charles Dilke says that if the Liberal Party is unanimous in its wish that he should stand for the Forest Dean seat, he will do so. The Glasgow and Liverpool branches of the Seamen's Union have refused to join in a general strike. The trustees of the Seamen's Union are objecting to provide funds for the strike. Mr Wilson, the secretary of the Union, accepts the Federation tioket. The Dockers' Union has been informed by counsel that" the Shipping Federation is not an illegal society. Mr Balfour's fund for the relief of Irish distress has reached £90,000. It has been ascertained that there are only £9000 to the credit of the Evicted Tenants' Fund in the hands of Paris bankers instead of £80,000 as was supposed. Parnell's delegates left Queenstown for America in a storm of hisses. His supporters retaliated, and a riot followed. There has been a heavy fall of snow in the northern part ol Kent, and the working of the telegraph and railway lines has been seriously interfered with. At Faversham, opposite the Isle of Sheppey, a train was snowed up all one night. The lifeboat at Lydd, in the south of Kent, capsized during a storm, and seven of the crew were drowned, England and France have arrived at an agreement respecting the claims of the latter in Newfoundland. The terms of the settlement, will be published shortly. Mr Justin Macarthy opened the proceedings of the National Federation League, the programme of which was announced this week. , iDean Mahoney, of SydnJ^Beconded 'the formal resolution esFablishing the Federation. ' The majority of Irish priests were present. Mr Seaton charged Mr Parnell with supporting the Tories ; ' ; Archbishop Walsh declared that Mi Parnell's behaviour was destructive to the Irish cause. The Prince of Wales was in the company of Sir Charles Dilke and his wife to-day in Eotton Row.