CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 10 May 1892, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. New Zealand long-berried wheat, 28s 63, steady. Hemp, fair quality, averages £21, but there is no demand for the article. Wellington mutton ,4 l-Bth pence ; Canterbury lamb, s£d. New Zealand butter, best factory made, 94s to 104s. The season is closed. A great Bi-Metallic Conference of Eastern Bants is to be held at the Mansion House. The bullion brokers and merchants have resolved *to attend a similar demonstration got up by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Mr Molloy, M.P. for Birr, in the course of an interview with the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, said the Eandt at Johannesburg was the biggest and most permanent goldfield in the world. The output of the various mines for March was 92,0000z. Mr Gladstone's refusal to receive a deputation in favour of the Eight Hours' System has much incensed the Democrats. The cotton strike has been settled by compromise, and the hands resume on Monday. The Manchester spinners are resuming for three days a week. Jaeger, who absconded from the Rothschield's bank in Frankfort, and who wrote stating that it was his intention to commit suicide, is reported to have arrived at Colombo. Mowbray, the publisher of the Anarchist paper Commonwealth, has been acquitted of the charge of inciting to murder. Nicholl, the editor, who admitted the authorship of the article in question, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. The Marquis of Salisbury delivered an impassioned harangue to the members of the Primrose League on behalf of the people of Ulster, who dreaded being put under the feet of their hereditary and irreconcilable enemies. The language of the leaders was a most menacing symptom, and the situation was such that any attempt to employ military power by England would keep Ulster under. The action of Archbishop Walsh would rend society, as Home Rule was not a message of peace, but of religious civil war, and such a hideous picture could not become a reality without enfeebling the credit and power of England through 1 out the world. Parliament, he said, had the right to govern Ulster, and no right to sell the people into slavery.