CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 26 July 1892, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

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London.

The Daily Chronicle urges that Lord Carrington ought to succees Lord Knutsford in the Colonial Office, and not to be sent to Ireland. It considers that Mr Gladstone's majority is enough to enable the Liberals to do a great deal of work.

A council of eight will assist Mr McCarthy in directing the policy of the Nationalists. % : '

St Jame'r', Gazette says thafe Mr Gladstone demands a pledge from tHe Irish members befoie forming a Cabinet, and the Irish are hesitating. Colonial stocks are very firm, as a good many people are investing in them just now.

The anxiety felt in financial circles in the City that the recent 'rise in colonial stocks would induce an early renewal of borrowing, has niuoh,dapressed the money market. The New {Zealand Loan And Mercantile Agency Company" will shortly issue half a million of .4. per cent debentures at 96.

A severe gale in the Irish Channel has caused many shipwrecks. A Liverpool lifeboat, while engaged in the wqrk of rescue, was upset, and three of the crew drowned^ '

The importers of fruit, report* that the season has been unprofitable, •fhey complain of; inferior .packing, and assert that another' similar season will destroy the market for colonial fruit. .-"■;■-. They are in favour of the higher qualities of apples being sent, but do not believe in peaches. The Sydney apples were the beat received. New Zealand long-berried, wheat; is steady at 84s. Canterbury frozen mutton, ,B|d per lb ; Wellington, B|d ; Wellington lambGJd. v . The Duke of Sutherland's oheese arrived heated, and her mutton was in poor condition. At the auction sales New Zealand, hemp was dull at late rates. Fair to medium quality brought from £18 10s to £19 per ton.

South Australian wheat is firm at 253, and the Victorian market ' is firmer at 84s.

In the Chancery Division the Hon Sir A. Rekewich, Justice, made an order preventing the Trades Federation from boycotting non-Union firms.

A crisis is threatened in the Lancashire cotton trade, owing to the reduction of wages and the increase of hours.

The Queen personally invested Mr Dibbs at Osborne with the insignia of K.C.M.G. on Friday,

The intention, of Her Majesty to oreate Mr G. B. Dibbs a K.C.M.G. was announced by Lord Knutsford at the dinner given to- the colonists by Mr Dibbs. The latter expressed himself gratified at the compliment bestowed on the colony, and said it would be ingratitude on his part to refuse the offer so made and involving personal investiture by the Sovereign. .

The Fall Mall Gazette comments upon the conversion and., capture of Sir G. E Dibbs, an avowed; Sepa« ratists and supposed Bepublican.iand ironically praises his pliability, cul^ivation, and open minfl, and , adda that though nobody quite, knew why he came to England,; still it is a great thing to send back a titled colonial.

The critics generally consider the title a little premature, and are laughing at Lord Carrington court* ing titles as factors for making Imperial unity, and state if the titles are not bribes, still they are labels and symbols.

The friends of Mr Gladstone and also his medical advisers are pressing him to accept a peerage. Sir W. V. HarcourJ is consulting the Radicals as to the advisability of demanding that the House of Lords shall not be permitted to force a dissolution over Home Bute.

An amendment will be moved to the Addrese-in-reply in the House of Commons; with the view of showing that the country will not trust Lord Salisbury. Sir Charles Dilke is in favour of of granting autonomy to Wales and Scotland as well as Ireland.

Sir Wm. Vernon Harcourt will lead the Liberal Party in the .Qquss of Commons. : ?

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's' debentures have been fully underwritten, Cable intelligence from Batavia confirms the disaster at ' Sanguew Island.

The north-west portion of the island was entirely destroyed and 2000 natives killed. . ,

The Commissioner, Sir Charles Ewan Smith, has arrived at Tangiers where the Vizier of Morocco and a Minister from Fez are shortly expected, in order to resum* negotiations.

Stirring details have been published of Sir Ewan Smith's coolness and courage during the dispute with the Sultan.

■Desparate fighting is reported from Morocco, between Hinana, the insurgent leader, and the Sultan's troops. The former burned three villages in the vicinity of Tangier. In accordance with the orders of the Sultan, the tribes accorded the British Commissioner special honour.

Major Pollock, of the 3rd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, won the Queen's Prize at Bisley with a score of 277. He also won the silver medal as the highest scorer in the second stage.