CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 6 February 1892, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. The resusoiated firm of Baring Brothers show a profit for the year of £ 12,000. Fifty thousand will be carried to reserve and a dividend of 5 per cent declared. Horses in London are suffering extensively from influenza. The modus viviendi agreed to with respect to the Behring Sea dispute will probably be renewed for a year, pending the result of arbitration. The Dublin Express advises the rejection of the scheme of local government offered by the Tories. The Independent urges the re-union of the Irish Party. Perry, the property agent in County Glare, who was shot by three armed men, has died of his wounds. Lord Salisbury addressed a large meeting at Exter Hall on February Ist, the attendance being estimated at upwards of 10,000. Referring to ' 1 gyption affairs he said that the new Khedive, Abbas Bey, would followl the policy ot his late father, and on the land question he declared that Government were very anxious to multiply the number of small holdings. Ireland was still the burning > tjuetiiiott cf 6ha day, aatt hi wtrasd

le people of England that if a sepaite Parliament were set up in Dublin i wonld produce a result which r ould compel the whole world to delare that England was in a state of anile decay. He appealed to the ountry to avert this crowning alamity and disgrace. Throughout is address Lord Salisbury made no eference whatever to dissolving ParLament befo::e the date on which it rill expire by effluxion of time. The Prince of Wales sent a aessage to Mrs Spurgeon expressing tis deep sympathy with her in her tereavement. Messages oi condolence are being eceived by the widow from many lenominations in England, United states and Australia. Sir Morell Mackenzie, the eminent >hysician, died on Febrnary 4th of nfluenza. Mr J. R. Cox, M.P. for Clare, who ecently returned to England from a our through the Australasian solonies, declared, in the course of a ipeech in Dublin, that not more han 50 people in those colonies tided with the Parnellites. Mr Osborne, whose wife has been vanted since December last on a :harge of obtaining money under "alse pretences, is bringing her home ;o stand her trial. The charge arose out of an action )rought by Mrs Osborne against Major and Mrs Hargreavesfor slander n stating that she had stolen and jold to Mr Spinks, the diamond nerchant, Mrs Hargreave's pearls, ;he discovery being made during the learing of a charge that Mrs Osborne liad negotiated Spinks' bank note. Before the warrant could be served, Mrs Osborne had escaped to the Continent.