London.

Manawatu Herald, 1 March 1892, Page 2

London.

The Pall Mall Gazette suggests that the time allowed for the carriage of mails to and from Australia should be shortened, and that the mails should be conveyed all the way by sea, so as to avoid excessive charges incurred by their transport through Italy and Fiance. The Earl of Cadogan stated that Government did not. intend to depart from the safeguard contained in Mr Balfour's Irish Local Government Bill. •; The Times says that Mr Gladstone inspired the editor of the Speaker to impreaoh the loyalty of the Marquis of Hartington (now Duke of Devonshire) during the crisis of 1880, and remarks that a worse attempt to stab an opponent has not occurred of late years. Lord Wantage's Committee on the Army declares that, with the exception of the Guards, there is not a single battalion of the infantry effective for short service if necessity arose. The Committee recommend an increase of pay, and the granting of other privileges Mr Lidderdale has turned up safely, and explains that his absence from the city was voluntary. A chimney, 60 yards high, fell at Barraolough's Flannel Factory in Bradford, killing nine women. There were 80 people working in the factory at the tima. Captain Bourke and Commander Tully, of H.M.S. Victoria, have been reprimanded in connection with the recent accident to that \essel on the Greek coast. Replying to a question in the House ,of Commons, Baron de Worms, Political Secretary to the Colonial Office, said there were not the slightest grounds for charging Lord Knutsford, Secretary of State for the Colonies, with breach of faith in not submitting the name of Lord Glasgow as governor of New Zealand to the Colonial Government before the appointment was made. The circular despatch, of July. 1889, has been followed and Lord Onslow informed of the appointment directly it had been approved by Her Majesty the Queen. He further stated that prior reports were unauthorised by the Imperial Government. Mr De Cobain, M.P. for Be'fast who has failed to appear to answer the serious charges of immorality alleged against him, has been expelled as a member of the House of Commons.

New Zealand long berried wheat is firmer at 445. The quotations foi frozen meat are unchanged. New Zealand hemp is in poor demand at low rates. South Australian wheat is firm at 445 ; Victorian is also firm at 43s 9d. The Czar has censured the officer who expelled Captain Youngliusband from the Pamir Plateau, and has expressed regret to England over the occurrence. Germany has decided to retain her possession in South West Mca. The late Rev C. H. Spurgeon will be succeeded as Pastor of the Tabernacle by his brother, with the Rev Mr Pievson as preacher. Mr G. W. Hastings, M P. for East Worcestershire, charged as trustee, under the vfill of the late Major John Brown, with having committed fraud to the extent of £15,000, has been declared a bankrupt. Eighty thousand miners are handing in notices to cease work on March 12, in accordance with the resolution passed by the Miners' Federation.