London.

Manawatu Herald, 9 June 1892, Page 2

London.

The Queen has expressed gratification at the betrothals of the Duke of Edinburgh's daughters. The Parliament and people of Roumania are enthusiastic over the matter and the Foreign Minister said the friendship between England and Roumania will be sealed by the alliance. The Underwriters have accepted an offer for the salvage of the steamer Port Douglas, which was lately wrecked at Cape Verde Islands — and for cargo at the rate of 40 per cent of the salved value. Mr Perceval has forwarded to the New Zealand Government a report on the dairy produce, including th-j advice of an expert as to the best

means of expanding and improving the colonial trade.

The press and the Salvation Army leaders consider it improbable that the class of people who will be selected for the General's over-sea colony in New Zealand will be chargeable on the Government of that colony ! therefore ■, they (Sonsicler that a guarantee is useless. Mr Chambevlain warns the Nonconformists in England that they will be false to Traditions if they allow Home Rule which will place their lives, property, and religious liberties of their co-religionists under a nominee of the Irish Hierarchy. Mr R. L. Stevenson, in a letter to The Times, insists that Mr Cedercrantz, the Chief Justice of Samoa, should be replaced by another official, and attributes the singular actions of Baion Filsach, President of the Municipal Council at Apia, to his connection with the purchase of Samoa. The Times implies that either the Municipal Council or the Government used Filsach for their own purpose. The paper then goes on to state that the enormities recorded against officials at Samoa are monstrous, and if half of the alleged offences are correct, diplomatic intervention should be urgently demanded. Yet, says The Times, Mr Stevenson's story is in amazing one. Both the French and the German press are bitter in their comments on the barbarity of British officials in Uganda. It is asserted that 50,000 Roman Catholic natives were robbed and their houses burned, and that thousands of women and children were sold into slavery. The English papers do not believe the charges, and await despatches from Captain Lugard. In the House of Commons, Sir Win. V. Harcourt said the British East Africa Company must be held liable for what had taken place in Uganda. Bishop Kirk has complained bitterly of the action of the Catholics against the British in Uganda. Long berried wheat 36s 9d ; market flat. Canterbury mutton, 4£d ; Wellington, B|d. The market is glutted. There is little or no demand for hemp. Fair quality is quoted at £19. South Australian wheat is quoted at 87s 9d, market flat ; Victorian, 37s 3d. The report of the committee appointed by the House of Commons to enquire into the hours of work exacted from railway servants is strongly averse to the railway companies. During the last two or three months several girls have been poisoned in London under mysterious circumstances, and the police believe they have at last got a clue to the murderer.