CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 2 June 1891, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

London. Archbishop Croke, in a speech at Limerick, said he was greatly afraid the cause of Home Bule was lost. The people were utterly unfit to rule if they sympathised with Mr Parnell. It is reported that the Chartered Company's forces have defeated the Portuguese Volunteers on the Eiver Uembe. Mutton — Canterbury, 4 3-Bths per lb ; Wellington, Bfd. Canterbury lamb, sd. Beef — Forequarters 3| per lb ; hindquarters, od. There is nothing doing in New Zealand hemp. Wellington, fair quality, is nominally quoted at £21 per ton. Payment of deposits in the banks in the Argentine Eepublic, which was suspended, is now indefinitely postponed. The Czar is determined to expel all Jews from St Petersburg, Moscow, and Odessa. The Jews are rapidly quitting Corfu. The election for the vacant seat in the House of Commons for North Bucks, rendered necessary by the expulsion of Captain Verney, who was imprisoned for an offence against females, resulted in the return of a Home Ruler. In the House of Commons io-day Mr Smith; in reply to a question, said the Government would consider the necessity of placing some restriction on the influx of destitute foreigners into Great Britain. Obituary. — Earl of Clancarty, aetat 57. His son William Frederick, Viscount Dunlo, aged 28, who married Belle Bilton, the burlesque actress, succeeds to the title. In the course of a speech on the 80th, Mr Gladstone, in referring to the expulsion of Jews from Russia, said nothing was to be gained by denouncing the revolting treatment to which they are subjected, and it would be better to appeal to the European public, after preparing a digest of the exceptional laws of Russia. Thirty thousand Jews have been ordered to leave Warsaw. Tenants at old Tipperary, who were evicted for not paying their rent, have accepted the terms of the landlords. They have now paid arrears of rent due, and have returned to their homes. In the House of Commons, Mr W. H. Smith, First Lord of the Treasury

announced his imention of introduc- a ing a Bill suspending British sealers s from carrying oat their calling in Behring Sea, for a term of one year. ( A compromise has been arrived at 1 between Mr Smith and the New- i foundland delegates respecting the ( modus vivendi, and the Imperial Bill, will now be withdrawn if the < measure being discussed by the New- < foundland Parliament is found to be i as satisfactory as expected. i The French Minister of War has ; sent a grateful message of thanks to : Lord Charles Beresford, commander ofH.M.S. Undaunted, for the assistance rendered by him to the French warship Seiguelay, when she stranded on a sandbank off Jafta, on the Levant coast.