CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 7 June 1892, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

<_.. — London. The amount spent and pledged to charitable institutions in Europe in 1891 by Baron Hirch was three million pounds. His gross winning? on the English turf during the same period, amounting to close on £8000 were given to the London hospitals. Owing to the ia creased traffic in the Suez Canal the Company has decided to make a reduction in January next of 50 centimes per ton in the charges upon vessels passing through the canal. The capital required for the Pears' Soap Company was supscribed on the first day the lists were open. The Durham colliery owners are yielding to the pleading of the Bishop of Durham to re-open the pits at a reduction in the niens' wages of 10 per cent instead of 18£ per cent as first proposed. In the i^hanco.i-y Division of the High Court of Justice Sir Ford North, at the instance of the Times, granted an injunction, without damages, restraining the St James" Gazette from reprinting Mr Rudyard Kipling's article "In Sight of Monadnock." The injunction refused to restrict the Gazette from publishing news paragraphs extracted from The Times. Princess Marie, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh, is betrothed to the Crown Prince of Roumania, and her sister, the Princess Victoria, to the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. The French press is publishing excited articles! about the oppression

of Catholics in Uganda. i No British accounts of the recent tumults have yet been received, The capital fixed for Pear's Soap Company was subscribed six times over. Foreign. The Czar and the Kaiser will meet at Kiel on 7th June* Many Germans and Austrians have been suddenly expelled from Warsaw Senator Sherman states that the effect of the purchase of silver bullion by the United States Government has been to lower the price ; that if the price of silver continues to decline he will vote for the repeal of the Act. The United States Senate ha§ postponed the voting on the Silver Bill until the 14th inst.