CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

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

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. No New Zealand hemp has been sold by auction, but a fair quantity Avas disposed of privately at late prices. The Newfoundland fishermen refuse to export fresh fish to Canada. The personnel of the Government Labour Commission has been submitted to the Queen. Those who have seats on the Commission are the Marquis of Hartington (Chairman), Sir M. Hicks Beach, Sir John Gorst, the Right Hon. L. H, Courteney, Right Hon. A. J. Mundella, Right Hon. H. H. Fowler, Messrs T. Burt and J. Austin, Messrs B. J. Mawdsley Secretary of Operative Cotton Spinners' Union), and Macdale and Sir Peter Tait. The Irish members persist in their desire to have Mr M. Davitt on the Commission, and Mr Justin McCarthy will move that his name be added. Lady Zetland and Miss Balfour are travelling through the congested districts on the west coast of Ireland. They have been greeted everywhere with effusive effection and expressions of loyalty to the Crown. Information has been received at Capetown that Lieut. Frere, with a Portuguese escort had been sent by the Portuguese authorities to intimate to the Rhodes Company that they must evacuate their mines in Massikesse. Lieut. Frere was arrested and sent to Umtasa's kraal where Mr Colquhoun, Administrator of the British South Africa Company is settled. Two hundred and fifty British golddiggers proceed to the Astoria gold fields via Port Beira. The Portuguese Government complain that this will compel them to oppose their landing by force. The Standard declares the Argentine Government is bankrupt. Stocks are still falling in London. A number of Italians have subscribed a bronze wreath for presentation to two men-o'-warsmen in recognition of their heroic conduct in saving life when the s.s. Utopia, bound from Genoa to New York with a large number of Italian emigrants an board, collided*with H.M. S. Anson off Gibraltar last month and foundered. The police made a raid in the Strand to-day. A hundred of those on the premises were arrested for playing baccarat. Mr H. H. Gibbs, of Antony, Gibbs and Sons, Merchants, will contest the City of London seat in the House of Commons vacated by the death of Mr Thomas Charles Baring. Mr Richard Henn Collins, Q.C., Bwtctfla Biv 3m*n ft Stephens as

Judge of the Queens Bench Division. Lord R. Churchill's expedition on a large scale to Mashonaland is at" tracting much attention. Portugal has stopped the navigation of the Pungere until the British evacuate their post at Massikessa.