CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

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

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

London. The Great Northern Railway Company has abolished second-class carriages on their lines.

One of the G7-ton guns on board H.M.S. hlowe, one of the Channel Squadron, has cracked.

The Naval Exhibition at Chelsea, which has just closed, has been visited by 2,300,000 people.

Messrs Smith (son of the late W. H. Smith), Conservative, and Gutteridge, Radical, have been nominated for the strand vacancy.

Sir Charles Russell, in addressing his constituents, said the payment of members was a question to be decided before Home Rule.

Mr John Dillon accuses Mr John Redmond, who has been chosen leader of the Party formerly led by the late Mr Parnell, that he was about to desert the latter at the time of his death. Mr Sarsfield will stand for Cork in the Unionist interest, Mr Martin Flavin in the McCarthy interest, and Mr John Radmond, M.P., in the Parnell interest. Mr Healy has visited Paris and secured the release of the funds deposited there with the French banks. The strike at Carron wharves has been reduced to ttoO men, who have expressed their determination of fighting the non-Unionists to the bitter end. In his speech at Bury, Mr Balfour

said the Tories ;and Unionists were now more closet* allied than ever.

The Rev O. H. Spurgeon has gone 'to Mentone, in the smith of France, for the benefit of his health.

Mr Dillon nd vises Ins followers to conduct the political struggle in a constitutional way, and keep the peace with the English members. Mrs Parnell warned the Parisian bankers not to part with the funds deposited in their banks by her late husband.

Messrs Nelson Bros., are building a freezing store at Southwark, on the bank of the Thames, capable of holding 180,000 carcases of mutton. Mr Rowan, of Melbourne, who has been investigating the manner in which colonial meat is sold in London, considers, it inadvisable to send any one from Australia to manage the London sales of frozen meat, as there is no suspicion of any unfair dealings, and he declares that the existing system at Smithfield is excellent. Sir John Gorst, speaking io his constituents, said the crux of the labour question was to koep the people on the land, and unless the present situation was amended he felt that the end would be rovolt. Eight thousand nailrnakers in the Midland Counties have strwjk against a reduction oi 10 per cent in their wages.