CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 11 April 1891, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London, Sir James Stephen has retired from the bench. A coal trust is being formed to control the output in the chief districts of the north. General Booth, who has been suffering from influenza, is improving. The Colonising Committee, set up by the House of Commons, has reported that the condition of the United Kingdom does not warrant a general scheme of emigration. The shipment of New Zealand apples per R.M.S. Tongariro arrived in splendid condition. They were put lip to auction at Covent Garden, and bought from 15s to 20s per case (containing a bushel). Wool is firm, and there is good competition at the sales. Mr Gladstone gives a most indignant denial to the statement made by Mr Parnell that a number of dynamiters visited him at Hawarden in 1886 and consulted him with reference to Home Rule proposals. The Triple Alliance has been renewed. The Standard asserts that Earl Spencer really leads the House of Lords. A preliminary report will be issued by the Census Department in July. When out cruising, the Australian auxiliary steamer Tauranga's lower after deck magazine was constantly flooded* The water is believed to have found its way in through leaks in the side of the ship. Telephone communication has been established between London and Marseilles, and has proved a great success. The ship canal between the Baltic and the North Seas, has been completed, and was formally opened by the German Emperor on the 7th. P. T. Barn urn the great showman died on the 7th April. The St Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says a conspiracy against the Czar has been discovered in that city. Bussia is massing troops on the Polish-German frontier, under the pretext of carrying out manoeuvres on a large scale. The European situation is regarded in Berlin as threatening. The Bussian Press has been ordered to preserve strict silence with regard to armaments and movements of troops. Beports of a disturbing nature are bjing received from St Petersburg and other Euiop?an capitals, with reference to the European situation. The Czar will visit the Emperor William of Germany in August. Bussia is arranging for a loan of 420,000,000*

Sir Charles Tupper considers that tv ;he result of reciprocal trade rela- tl iions with the United States would ac to sever Canada from England, as o ay accepting rceiprocity it would be I necessary for the Dominion to adopt s she American tariffs. t] Mr Wilson, secretary of the Ses- ti men's Union, has been sentenced to i six week's imprisoument for inciting p the Cardiff strikers to riot. s The Right Hon. A. J. Mundella, c M.P. for Brightside, has accepted a T \ seat on the Royal Commission ap- *] pointed by the Government to en- c quire into relations betweenjemployers t and employed, the causes of labour t disputes and the best means of pre- c venting them. (