CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 16 August 1892, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. The amendment to the Address-in-Reply was carried by 350 t<< :VIO. The division on the amendment tothe Address-in -Reply is the _ largest ., on record. "~ There" were' only five absentees excluding the Speaker. - '1 he Hon A . J. Balfour, Leader of the House, moved an adjournment ... i until the 18th inst., but made na statement as to the intentions of the Government. The silver market shows signs of further depression, and" among the 1 Indian banks there i« a generallygrowing belief Jthat-rAtnopea ..will shortly b< compelled; to ; the coinage of silver. Some of the City financiers believe that a silver panics lis within measureable distancs. £>eVefral of the representatives of Indian banks in London are consulting with the merchants as to the best means to avert the danger. , 'I he Irish 'members "greeted the. . result of the division with cries -of "Down with coercion," "Down with Balfour,'' hissing and boo-hoa-iag'. ~ • ■ - -■' The Unionists responded bystanding up, waving their hats, and cheering Mr Balfour. The Scottish Liberals in the House of Commons have prevented a memorial to Mr Gladstone asking that measures affecting „ Scotland? shall, after the first reading, be referred to- a committee, of Scotch' members. The Marquis of Salisbury, waited. : on the Queen at Osborne on August 12th and formally handed in the resignation of the Government. Mr Gladstone has received a Royal : summons to -attend 'at Osborne. Th£ Standard asserts that thefollowing Will be the portfolios in the new Government ', — Sir William Hai-court, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord Roseberry., Secretary ■ ■ of Foreign Affairs ; Hon'J. Morley, Secretary for Ireland; Mr Henry . Campbell Bannerman, Minister "of 'War ; the Earl of Kirnberley, Secretary for the Colonies ; Mr H. H. Fowler, Home Secretary ; the Marquis of Ripon, Secretary for India ; the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Mr Lah.ou,chere will . . be attached to the 'Home Office, but will not have a seat in, the Cabinet.. . Lord Roseberry has gone abroad! and the Daily Telegraph asserts he will not accept a seat in the Cabinet. Letters from Captain Lugard re - port that be has consented to allow the Catholics to occupy the _ district of Budda, while in Uganda propelall religions are to be free. News is to hand from West 'A frica- ' that the natives are greatly 'disturbed at the numerous expeditions in their country. It is feared that 20 agents of the Katanga expedition have been killed and that the steamer Baernet has been captured by the natives. The tribes on the" western bank cj^ the Congo are in revolt and three agents have been killed at JKyangwet The stations on the Upper Lorn- •; ami have bse.i destroyed, and it is feared that th6 Arabs in 'the neighbourhood of Stanley,. Falls have, turned hostile. - Soldiers have been despatched up the Aruwimi River.' ; - : . - New Zealand" long- berried wheat, ex warehouses 86s 6d -^market quiet. For off-coa9t cargoes, sellers ask 81 s 6d, but buyers are only willing to give 30s 9d. ; < Canterbury mutton, Bfd ; lamb, sfd; Wellington "mutton, B|d ; beef, forequarters, 2sd ; hindquarters, 3£d. New Zealand- hemp is •in'po.or demand. Seventy bales were . sold by auction this week at an advance, •of 10s. •••■• '■■■■'■y.l