CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 9 June 1891, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

London. It is reported the Caledonian Railway Company intend to offer Mr Eddy, Chief Commissioner of New So>ith Wales Railways, £4000 a year to -return. Mr A. J. Balfour, in the course of a speech in the House of Commons, said that crime in Ireland had been so reduced that it would be safe to suspend the operation of the special laws against criminal conspiracy, except in one county. There were only 21 persons in prison under the Crimes' Act.' 7' .'.. '*■.-'"■ Thfr-Behring Sea Fisheries Suspension Bill has passed the House ol Commons. The census for London and suburbs shows the populatkm to be 8,633,000. ' "The Chilian insurgents and President Balmaceda have accepted the offers, of the United States ' and France tb mediate in the present struggle, In the House of Commons Baron de Secretary for the Colonial Office,, stated that, the Boer expedition to Mashonaland had been abandoned.. Nearly the whole of the employees of the London General Omnibus and the Royal Car Coy, struck at midnight on Saturday for 12 hours' per. day and an increase of wages. Strong pickets have been posted to endeavour to prevent others filling the places of the men on strike. Sir John Macdonald, Premier of Canada died on 6th June. He was in his 76 year. The Baccarat Scandal. . In the i B&ccarat case Mr and Mrs Lycett Green and Mr Berkeley Levett.confrmed.the evidence of Mr Stanley WilsOn. 7 . Mr Wilson stated that Sir Gordon Cumming brought the counters to Tranby Croft for the purpose of playing, and witness was prepared to stake his. life that plaintiff cheated