CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 3 October 1891, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. It is reported a company is being formed in Liverpool to erect a pepsine factory in Australia. Sir John Gorst, who has been on a visit to Ireland, states that the best of the peasantry in Ireland are worse off than the poorest in England. An impression is abroad that the Bank of England will decline to issue another colonial loan for a considerable time. The twin screw steamer Teutonic, belonging to the White Star line has, made a record on the passage from New York to Queenstown. The time •occupied on the voyage was 5 days and 17 hours. V During a gale three men Were blown off the Forth bridge and killed.

Alderman David Evans, of Watling street, is the Lord Mayor-elect. Sir J. Fergusson has expressed himself in favour of labour representation in the House of Commons A contract has been arranged for carrying 18,000 tons of Queenslsnd frozen meat annually for five years. The freight for the beef is to be |d per lb, and for the mutton and lamb 13-16 per lb. It appears that by order of tht admiralty the operations at Sigri, which were described as ordinary manoeuvres, were really carried out in a deliberately elaborate manner. Mines were laid, guns landed, search lights swept the shore, and there was a night attack by torpedo boats. The Russian press insist that this was intended as a warning to the Porte. The police in various parts of Burmah have been armed, in anticipation of trouble with Tsawbwa' s followers. There is considerable excitement among the Wunths. Two sections extending eleven miles, of the Manchester Ship Canal, have been opened for traffic. Sir John Lubbock has announced his intention of shortly resigning the Chairmanship of the London County Council. The prospectus of the new evening paper which Mr Parnell is about to establish has been issued. The name of the paper is " The Irish Independent Evening Star," and the capital of the company is £60,000. The American expedition now exploring Labrador have discovered a wonderful waterfall, 300 feet high, and 200 feet broad. Severe conflicts have occurred, between the French and Tonkinese pirates at Haiphong. Forty-seven of the latter were killed. Persistent reports are afloat that the Russians now exploring the ..-amir plateau, in Central Asia, have killed Captain Younghusband, British political agent.