CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

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

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

♦ London. The Agents-General are pressing Sir John Pender to begin the cable reductions on April 10, but it is more likely to ba the first of May before they come into effect. The delay is owing to parleying with Russian and Indo-European lines. The last Victorian loan is in fair demand at par. England will officially exhibit at the World's Fair at Chicago. Mr Parnell asserts that Mr Maurice Healy is in collusion with the Unionists to defeat him at Cork. The Times in referring to Mr ParnelTs refusal to apply for the Chiltern Hundreds considers he is seeking to shuffle out of a contest with Mr Healy. It is stated that the Fenians are reorganising in London, and the Government are accordingly taken precautions. Mr Parnell is carrying on a vigourous campaign in Sligo. News has been received from the Caroline Islands of the wreck of the Strathaires. Ninety of those on board were drowned. A sensation has been caused by a story which the Pall Mall Gazette say it publishes on good authority to the effect that the young Due d'Orleans has been seen in Paris disguised as a valet to n, well»known Binge?*

It is generally believed that Madame Melba is meant. The Times says the Due d'Orleam 3 ig at Tiflis, in the Caucasus Provinces. * Mr Walker Wilson, who has been studying the the English postal telegraph, parcels post, and telephone system, was the first Australian to speak over the London-Paris tele- fl phone. \ Replying to his congratulations g the superintendant at the Paris end c stated that telephonic coinmunica- t tion with Australia had been proved j to be quite a scientific possibility. < , Vocal music of an opera played in ■ Paris can be distinctly heard through , the telephone in London. m r The Portuguese Government will y submit to the Marquis of Salisbury a fresh basis for an Anglo Portuguese ] convention concerning the South < African difficulty. t I The Times in discussing the dis- j pute with Newfoundland, while de- , precating the attitude adopted by , that Colony warns both France and ( Great Britain not to dragoon colonists into unhesitating submission. j The Standard's Rome correspon- , dent telegraphs that his Holiness the f Pope is consulting with Archbishop , Walsh as to the best way to maintain j a united Catholic party in Ireland, ] and that the Pope suggested the removal of Parnell from the leadership, j While His Honor the Judge was , summing up in the case of those , concerned in the recent riot at Tip- j perary, an overheated flue in the , County Court fired, and before the ( flames could be subdued the build- , ing was gutted. All the occupants ; escaped from the burning building, , the Judge having a particularly i narrow escape, as he had only just ( evacuated the chair when the glass roof and a quantity of molten lead fell with a crash on to the Bench. There is no demand for hemp, and all shipments which were offered for sale were bought it.