London.

Manawatu Herald, 28 June 1892, Page 2

London.

The inquest on the woman Cloyer, one of the Lambeth victims, dearly showed that she had been poisoned. The London County Council is discussing the question of water supply. It estimates that the population in and around London fifty years hence will be twelve and a half millions. A great Unionist meeting at St. James' Hall endorsed the sentiments of the Ulster Convention Addresses were delivered by the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Londonderry, and Dr Kane. Mr Gladstone's manifesto to the Midlothian electors described the Irish policy as a proposal to set both Parliament and Ireland free, enabling the former to overtake the arrears of legislation and the latter to manage its domestic affairs. It promises electoral registration reform in the direction of one-man-one-vote, payment of electioneering charges, and allowances to workmen's members, local option with regard to licensing, and admits that the desire for shorter hours of labour is largely developed. It also implies assent to eight hours work for miners, and notes with satisfaction the ripening and rooting of various social questions. The press generally consider that the manifesto is commonplace and disappointing. New Zealand long-berried wheat is flat at 35s Gd. New Zealand frozen beef, forequarters, 2£d per lb; hindquarters, Bjd. ;:.. New Zealand hemp—Market is quiet, but prioes remain steady. Fair quality ia selling at £19 per ton. Five thousand delegates attended the Unionist Convention in Dublin, representing Leinster, Munster and Connaught; Motions were passed based on the lines of those adopted by the Belfast Convention. A crowd chased Mr T. Healy through the streets of Dublin yelling " Dirty Healy." He was severely handled before he escaped. The Irish:' Free Education Bill has passed-all its stages in the House of Lords. ProfMser Tyadall, in the course of a speech, declared that the first drop of Ulster blood shed for the sake of men like Archbishops Walsh and Croke, or Mr Healy, will rouse a feeling in England that will sweep the autonomy of Ireland to perdition. Mr Morley had planted a microbe ifatit would imperil the brain of Mr Gladstone. At the inquest on the body of the girl Clover j one of the Lambeth poisoning victims, the fiancee of Neil, who is in custody on the charge of having committed the crimes, admitted having assisted in writing the threatening letter signed Murray, and which involved Dr Harper, but states that at the time she was ignorant of Neil's object. It is reported that Neil purchased a quantity of strychnine in Canada prior to the murders. Mr Stanley declares that he was naturalised in May, but the legality of the naturalisation is doubted. The Scotch Home Rule Associa tion has seceded from favouring Mr Gladstone, on the grounds that his Midlothian manifesto ignores Scotland, and the Irish policy is pregnant with danger to sister countries. Irish and other stocks dropped on the issue of the manifesto.