London.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 30 July 1891, Page 2

London.

General Booth has been given an immense " send off" by the Salvation Army. H. M. Stanley has met with an accident, the ankle, being fractured. Annie Besant has renounced the Malthusian doctrines. The Unionists are dismayed at the result of the Wisbeach eleotion. The Daily News, referring to the result, considers that the oountry is reversing its hasty judgment of 1886. The prospects of the hop crop are excellent. Rain in the north-west provinces has averted a famine, but throughout India generally there is a great scarcity of rain. '1 he Indian Government has granted the sum of £10,000 for relief purposes. Mr Henry John Atkinson, MP. for Boston, Lincolnshire, has been suspended for a fortnight for writing insulting letters to the Speaker of the House of Commons and accusing him of altering the terms of his questions. Behring Sea is blocked by five warships belonging to the United States, and two British gunboats. Two sealer 3 were seized, snd another oaptured after being fired on. Sealers are hunting along the Russian shore, and defying the authorities. The railway men in London are agitating for shortened hours. The adoption of the eight hour system on the English railways, would cost £8,000,000 per annum.