CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 25 July 1891, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. A tremendous crowd attended the farewell service of General Booth. He proposes to he absent on his colonial tour seven months. . H. M. Hyndman, the Socialist leader, who was arrested on the 7th instant for making a speech, in which he urged the people to secui-e their rights by forcible, if they could not obtain them by peaceable means, has been fined a shilling. There are grave rumours of further impending bank failures. Private Dear, of the Queen's Edinburgh, is this year's winner of the Queen's Prize at Bisley, with a score of 269 points. Sir Francis Dillon Bell has booked a passage for New Zealand by the steamer Arawa, leaving in October next. In the House of Commons Mr Goschen proposed that a medical commission should examine Mr De Cobain, M. P., with a view of ascertaining if his statement that he is too ill to attend the House of Commons is correct. Mr T. Hejaly agreed with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but Sir W. V! Harcourt characterised the proposed course as undignified, and eventually the debate was adjourned. Her Majesty the Queen has written an authograph letter to Lady Macdonald, recognising the services of the late Sir John Macdonald to Canada and the Empire. In the libel aotion brought by Mr T. Sexton, M. P., against the Scotsman, a verdict was returned for the defendant newspaper. The Lord Mayor of London, in accordance with precedent, has been created a Baronet in commemoration of the visit of the Emperor of Germany to the city. Mr Agustus Harris, dramatist and theatrical manager, who represents the Strand Division on the London County Council, and one of the Sheriffs of London, has received the honour of Knighthood in commemoration of the visit of the Emperor of Germany. Mr Cecil Eaikes, PostmasterGeneral, is trying to arrange with the Treasury for an ocean penny postage to Australia. A mutiny has taken place in the second battalion of the Coldstream Guards. Irritated by incessant drill two companies refused to parade, and ten men were imprisoned for three days. Upon this the others again refused to serve at drill unless their comrades were released, and in the end the authorities capitulated,