CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 5 November 1891, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. The French Senate has, in opposition to the French Government, on rried a motion imposing an import duty of 25 francs on American salt pork. The New York Herald states that Madame Melba, who ia at present in Piu-i", (Wlui'o3 tihftb Rha Is inwmnl

of the charges brought against her by her husband, who is suing for a divorce.

Addres ng a meeting at Fdinburgh Lord Gee ge Hamilton, First Lord of the Adm: alty, declared that if Egypt were evac lated. by England a state of anarchy would prevail, or the country be nsarped by another Power, and in either case England would have to intervene and reoccupy.

It is rumoured that the Tight Hon Arthur Wellesley Peel, Speaker in the House of Commons, is about to retire to the House of Lords.

A destructive fire broke out on Monday in the Prince of Walet's residence at Sandringham.

The two top floors, in which the Princesses Maud and Victoria's rooms were situated, were gutted. ■ The damage is estimated at £15,000. The Prince of Wales was absent at the time. The first floor containing the Prince's suite of rooms and all his works of art, were saved by the fireproof ceiling. Special trains were put on to take the fire engines out. It is reported a conflict has taken place at Delagoa Bay between the British and Portuguese troops, in which two men were killed and fifteen wounded. The German Government repudiates Emm Pasha's interference vith the English sphere in Central Africa. There is some anxiety in Berlin at the state of affairs in East Africa. _ The movements of Emm Pasha in connection with the British sphere in Central Africa are uncertain.