London.

Manawatu Herald, 24 March 1892, Page 2

London.

The Opposition is admittedly obstructing business in the House of Commons.

The War Office has appointed Colonel Walker Military Adviser to the Australian Colonies, but the Agents-General have not yet received any intimation of the appointment. Bishop Vaughan, of Salford, succeeds Cardinal Manning as Archbishop of Westminster. The British punitive expedition to Timbo, near Sierra Leone, met with a severe repulse. Captain Eobinson was killed, and all the officers and thirteen men wounded.

M. Waddingtou, French Ambassador in England, has expressed regret to the Government for the arrest of the brothers Purdils, two Englishmen, in Paris. Sergeant Holden has been com-

mitted for trial. The plans he sold to the French exposed the entire armament of Malta.

Coal has undergone a further fall of 2s per ton. The Durham miners revise to resume work, and ten thousand more men have struck.

It is understood that Government will oppose the Miners' Eight Hours Bill.

The Miners' Federation is favourable to making a levy of 6d per week to assist the Durham strikers.

It is expected that the miners will have at an early date to submit to a heavy reduction in wages. There are continued riots in Durham.

The ironworks in Staffordshire, which had to stop for want of coal, are starting work again. Two of Mr Pritchard Morgana estates, valued at £40,000, have been seized as security for oosts in a suit brought against him to compel him to pay a royalty on his Welsh goldmine. He was unsuccessful in his resistance to the claims of the Crown. The Key Hong Oheong gave a lecture to the members of the House of Commons on the opium traffic. He urged England to develop the coal deposits of China. Lord Salisbury has replied to the Washington note. It is rumoured that he has declined to renew the modus vivendi