London.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 19 September 1891, Page 2

London.

Tbe Maybrick Committee have instructed thair solicitors to teat the validity of Mrs Maybrick's imprisonment. ' Sir Chfts. ' Russell and Sir Horace Davey have been retained on her behalf. Adelina Patti has signed an American engagement for £1000 a night. Au Indian colonel named Desmond has accepted the challenge of the thought reader, Stuart Cumberland, for £1000, to demonstrate the exiatance of occult powers. A British syndicate has purchased the principal type founderies in America. Dr Maclngan Archibishop of York, vas enthroned on the 15th. It is stated at Valparaiso Bal* maceda has surrendered to the British flagship, and pleaded on h s knees for mercy and to be taken on board. The Eev. Spiu-geou is much stronger, and is now able to take constant outdoor exercise. Rich gold reefs have been discovered at Erisbeg, Connemara, County Gall way. Information has reached Constantinople, that immense petroleum, rereservoiis at Batoum a pori on the Asiatic coast of the Black Sea, are ou fire, and menace the town. The German. French and Italian Governments have rec^mzed the ! Chilian Junta. ' Reports have reached Vienna that the Russians and Afghans are fighting in the Hindoo Koosh Mountains which separate Afghanistan from Afghan Turkestan.