CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 7 November 1891, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

"♦-- — London. The City Corporation is joining the London County Council in the promotion of a Bill to acquire the control of the water supply for London, London actors and theatrical managers will present H.R.H. the Prince of Wales with a gold cigar book of the value of £1000 on the occasion of his fiftieth bifthday. The World states that Lord George Hamilton, first Lord of the Admiralty, will succeed the Marquis of Lansdowne as Viceroy and Go-vernor-General of India. The report that the Eight Hon. a . W. Peol, Speaker of the House of Commons, is about to retire to the Honse of Lords is denied.

Mr McDermott, nephew of the lato Mr Parnell, whipped Tim 1 lealy, M.P., iv a Dublin Law Court, fr, as he stated, publicly insulting the city. Fearing that Healy would be seriously injured, the onlookers were compelled to fescue him from his enraged assailant.

Speaking at Cork, Mr William

O'Brien, "-1.P., declared that Mr Gladstone gave Justin McCarthy assurance virtually accepting Mr Parnell' s laim with regard to the settlemen of the land and control of tHti vniifii-f but Mr Parnell ceased negotiations oWatisrfi' hie was denied further concisions.

Mr John Eedmond (Parnellitej, Mr Martin Flavin (McCarthyite), and Mr Sarsfield. (Unionist), have been nornitiatecl for the pork seat, rendered vacant by tlie flea'th of Mr Parnell.

Sir John Redmond has again urged Mr W. O'Brien to publish the documents relating to the conference which took place at Boulogne between the latter and the late Mr Parnell.

It has been ascertained that fully 400 persons were injured during the dis'turbfjuce in Cork last week.

The press, com'm'etiting on the episode in a Publin Law Cottft, generally consider that Healy's attacks on Mrs Parnell justified the thrashing McDermott gave him. Healy asserts that the whole affair was of a very trivial nature, and that Ills ftssailact was drunk.

The Mftrquk of Pufferin has been created Warden of the Cinque ports.

Sir Henry C. Lopes, Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal, is retiring*.

Mrs Jenkins, of Sydney, writes to the Earl ot Zetland that she intends to bring Cresswell, the lunatic, to England, she being confident that he is Eoger Tichborne.

The report of the proceedings at the Boulogne Conference' between Messrs O'Brien, Dillon, ond Parnell has been published. It shows that Paruell offered to retire from the leadership of the party provided Mr Gladstone gave a guarantee to accept his proposals with regard to the settlement of the land, and so transfer the control of the police from the Imperial authorities to an Irish Executive at the end of five years. It was arranged that the Party should meet after the guarantee had been obtained and pas.? a formal resolution declaring Justin McCarthy's election to the leadership informal. This having been done, both Parnell and McCarthy were to retire from the head of affairs, and Dillon was to act as chairman of the Party. Parnell afterwards quibbled over the details of the agreement, and it was apparent he was not sincere in his desire to offpefc a reconciliation.