CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 10 December 1891, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

-♦ London. The Duke of Clarence and Avondale has informed the Queen that he is bethrothed to Princess Victoria Mary of Teck. The Queen has approved the match, and the press is generally in favour of it. Seven Socialists have been found guilty of obstruction and unlawful assembly at Chelsea. Sentence is postponedUniversal regret is expressed in the European capitals at the death of Dom Pedro, late Emperor of Brazil. The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company have reduced freights by 5s dead weight, 7s 6d rough, and 10s fine measurement, to begin on 15th December. H. Trengrouse and Co., provision merchants, Tooly street, -who have succeeded in selling New Zealand butter at £6 2s, say the market could absorb double the quantity of the finest colonial butter. They deolare the standard of quality set up by the merchants unfair, and attribute the recent low prices to carrying the butter in the same chamber as game and fish. Baron Hirch's scheme for disposing of the Russian Jews confines the scope of emigration to the United States, Brazil, and the Argentine. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report under date London, 80th October :— Stocks in first hands are now much reduced, and arrivals continuing to be restricted, the offerings at public sales during the past month have been on a small scale, amounting to 1215 bales, of which about 850 tales have changed hands after the sales. Fine well dressed fibre attracts buyers at full rates, but the medium and inferior sorts have been but little enquired for and have a downward tendency. There has been a j furthar decline in manila, in which ; a considerable business has been done ■at £29 per ton c.i.f. to arrive. The ! market closes firm at this figure. Sisal is steadier at £22 per tou, ex quaj-, Liverpool. We quote — °uperior soft, bright hemp, £23 103 to £25 per ton ; good medium, well

Iressed, £22 10s to £28; fair to nedium, £21 to £22; do, slightly jtrawy, £l9 los to £2o los ;com io i, joarse and strawy, £18 to £19; mckled tow, £16 to £18 ; tow, £6 to 67. The Farmers' Clubs of the United Kingdom are forming a federation to protect themselves against the de* mands of the labourers.