CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

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

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. Sir John fowler, the eminent engineer, reports that it is imperative to rebuild eighty of the cast-iron bridges on the London, Brighton, and South Coast line, consequent upon the increased speed and weight of the locomotives. He also report? that the bridges on most of the other lines are equally dangerous, and will probably ifidst millions to rebuild. Charles Stroude, of Adelaide, ha submitted his torpedo to the Admiralty. Mr De Cobain, M.P., will be expelled from the House of Commons on the 28rd inst, unless he attends to refute the charges. Her Majesty the Queen and Prince of Wales sent messages of condolence to Mr Gladstone, who has lost his eldest son. The English press gene rally make sympathetic reference to the ex-Premier's loss. The marriage" of Princess Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (granddaughter of the Queen) with Prince Aribert of Anhalt was. celebrated on the 6th. The ceremony was, a very brilliant one. "A-' Hyn4man, the Socialist leader, has been arrested for ' making a j speech in which Die urged his hearers to use force to obtain' their rights. It is now stated that Mr Glad stone's eldest son, who expired after undergoing an operation for the removal of a tunaQur; died from the effects of chlorofc*m» ' Sixty thousand^alyatiomsts will assemble at the 'Crystal Palace to celebrate the twenty-sixth anniversary of the, ■Organisation of the Salvation Army," Baron Rothschild proposes to purchase 5,500,000;., square metres of land in East Jordan, on which to settle the Jews expelled from Russia, The Tories of Carlow will vote for the Parnellite candidate, A cab-driver yesterday deliberately slashed Parnell with a whip. One of the humours of the election is a fox' with a kettle tied to his tail and hung on a tree. This is supposed to represent Kettle, the candidate, tied to Parnell. Mr Parnell was assaulted by a mob. and " Kitty O'Shea, was burnt in effigy. In the House of Commons on Wednesday, the Free Education Bill was read a third time, and passed. t Wilkinson, a clerk, has confessed to having taken part in the theft of the Countess of Dudley's jewels (valued at £15,000) from thePaddington Terminus 5 of the Great Western Railway on the 12th December, 1874. ,■- v

The election of a member for Carlow took place on the Bth, when Mr Hammond, the seceding party's candidate, defeated Mr Kettle, the Parnellite, by a majority of 2,200.