London.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 29 August 1891, Page 2

London.

The Queen has gone to Balmoral. The Prince and Princess of Wales are taking an active interest in the Russian Jews, and have furnished Mr Arnold White, Baron Hirch's a?ent, with letters to the Eussian Court. A portion of the watches stolen from the South-Eastern Eailway Company's terminus, have been recovered. In consequence of the stench arising from the corpses in the vaults of St. Mary's, Woolnoth (? Wallbrook), in the city, the church has been closed. The Morning Post urges that England should join Australia iv the Antarctic exploration. Wheat is in steady demand at present, but the price has slackened. The Daily News states that three millions of money is idle in the London market, for which no outlet can be found. Severe storms with heavy rain have occurred, doing immense damage to the crops in Englaud. The Daily Telegraph estimates that the loss will amount t > several millions, and the weather will probably prove disastrous to the hop crop which in Kent never promised better. The Anchor Line steamer Utopia, which sank off Gibraltar with great loss of life in March last after collision with H.AI.S. Anson and was raised, has sailed from Gibraltar for Glasgow, where she will undergo repairs.

" General " gootb has been offered large tracts of land in South Africa for the purpose of carrying out his co'onisation scheme. The United States is organising an Antarctic expedition.