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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 20 August 1891, Page 2

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Severe storms, accompanied by heavy floods, have been experienced in Lancashire, and in some places the water rose to such a height that the mill fires were put out and operations had to be suspended. The damnge caused by water at Darwen is estimated at £14,000. The Cunard Company has entered into a contract for the construction of a steamer with the capacity of twelve thousand tons and capable of steaming twenty-two knots per hour. Thero is no improvement in the conditon of the Bey 0, H. Spurgeon. Lady Macdonald, widow of the late Premier of Canada, is gazetted a Baroness in her own right, but succession to the title of Baron is con* fined to the male heirs of her late husband. The Viceroy of India has decided not to annex Manipur. It is stated that the Duke of Connaught will shortly be appointed Commancler-in-Chief of India. Baron Hirsch, with a view to settling Bussian refugees, is makiDg arrangements with the Porte for a lease of a large tract of land in Asia Minor of an. annual rental of 10,000,000 francs. " Greater Britain " advocates the emigration of Bussian Jews to Australia. The Statist thinks the extreme cheapness of money will lead to a general recovery in financial circles, when the fear of any further serious failures will be altogether dispelled A new daily anti-Parnell paper called the Irish Mews has been issued at Belfast. Lord Salisbury undertakes to facilitate Mr O'Brien's appeal to the House of Lords. Mr Parnell, in addressing a meeting at Progheda, asserted that although both Mr Morley and Mr Gladstone nine days before the verdict was delivered in the divorce case knew the result, they Opposed his retirement from the leadership until kicked into it by their no»-Conform-ist conscience. Mr Maxim, inventor of the wellknown rapid-firing gun, is reported to have invented a flying machine which will carry two tons at a rate of 90 miles an hour. Mr Parnell has refused Dillon's overtures to divert the funds in the hands of |be Paris bankers to the aid of evicted tenants. He twits Mr Dillon with not having practised what he preached when he counselled the tradesmen of Tipperary to withdraw from Smith Barry's houses, inasmuch as Mr Dillon asked him to 'advance £1,000 from the Paris fund 9to prevent his house and furniture being sold. Mr Morley gives a fiat contradiction to Mr Parnell's statement made at Drogheda, that he, .whfltf knowing the verdict in the divorce ca^sd, ' opposed his resigning tbe leadetfsbjp. :/' By a railway collision at ; Poutypridd, in Wale 3, fifteen persons were injured, and three of the cases are expeoted to prove fatal. Later particulars of the railway accident at Pontypridd greatly increase tbe number of the injured, thirty of whom are not expeoted to recoyer.