London.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 27 October 1891, Page 2

London.

Sir Vernon Harcourt has lost the sight of one eye, and the other is likely to become affected. Dr Moorhouse, speaking at the Diocesan Conference, said he would rather children should be members of the most fanatical and superstitious body than secularists. It is reported that payable alluvial gold has been discovered at Fort Salisbury, South Africa. Under Baron Hirch's scheme, every Jewish family settled in the Argentine Eepublic will be alloted 150 acres of land and one year's provisions. The second year they are to support themselves, and in the third year they will have to pay a small rent. If the New Zealand farmers will provide cargoes of dairy produce and frozen meat for shipment to Liverpool, the Shaw-Savill Company will find the ships. Mr Gladstone will attend the Conference which will meet in this city to consider the condition of farm labourers. It is reported that the Princess of Wales will visit ILivadia, in Greece. In the course of a sermon Dr Moorhouse said he saw no objection to cycling on Sundays, and expressed his opinion that,.the opening of art galleries and museums to the public on Sundays would do positive good. Mr Balfour is of opinion that the naval relief for the Pacific station should in future be sent from England via Canada. Mr John Eedmond, M.P., has been i elected leader of the Party formerly led by the late Mr Parnell. Mr Parnell died intestate, through neglect to renew bequests to Mrs O'Shea after their marriage. The Standard states that half a million males in the famine stricken districts in Eussia are crying for bread. An Englishman named Mason has been sentenced, by the Shanghai Court, to two years' imprisonment, and ordered to pay a fine of £5000, for smuggling arms for Chinese rebels. Sir J. B. Lawes, Bart., estimates that the British wheat crops will average 30 bushels to the acre, giving a total yield of nine million quarters, and that twenty millions will be required to be imported. It is reported that several London and Liverpool produce merchants have united to proceed against the New Zealand Shipping Co., in order to teet the position of consignee* *nd th* Gowpey with regard totamigeft

produce by steamers from the colony. The Hon A. J. Balfour, who has recently been appointed Leader of the House of Commons, speaking at Bury, Lancashire, declared that the concession of the one-man-one-yote principle at Parliamentary elections involves women _ suffrage and would lead to a reduction of Irish representation in the House of Commons. The system, he alleged, would also introduce minority representation. He ridiculed the prospects of the variety programme drawn up by Mr Gladstone at the National Liberal Federation which met recently at Newcastle.

The Ameer of Bokhara has consented to Eussia collecting Customs duties on the frontiers of Afghanistan and also to a Russian garrison being station at Dzizak. Frosts in Russia are increasing the distress among the peasants. The Novosti estimates that twenty millions of the Russian peasantry are already without food, and it attributes great corruption to those administering relief. Several thousand women are selling their hair in order to purchase food. Many deaths from starvation, especially of children, are reported. Messrs Moet and Chandon, champagne growers at Epernay, have refused an offer of four million sterling for their business, The East African Company is surveying a railway route to Uganda on the shores of Lake Victoria-Nyanza. Sir J. fowler, the eminent engineer, estimates the cost of construction at two millions sterling. New Zealand long-berried wheat is firm at 44s 9d. For off coast cargoes sellers are asking 425, while buyers only offer 41s 6d. Canterbury mutton, 4|d per lb ; Wellington, 3|d ; beef, hindquarters, 3£d.

The demand has improved for New Zealand hemp, and a fair quality is quoted at £ 20 10s per ton.