London.

Manawatu Herald, 23 August 1892, Page 2

London.

Three new whips have been appointed by the Badical Party, including Mr W. A. Macarthur. Sir Charles Russell, speaking at Swindon, Newcastle, advocated a programme of measures which should be contemporary wifch Home Rule. Peerages have been bestowed on Sir Archibald Campbell Campbell, Bart, of Blythswood, Sir Thomas Brooks, Bart, Sir Eainald Knightley, Bart.

The following members of the House of Commons have been elevated to the rank of Baronet :— -Mr F D. Dixon-Hartland, F. SeagerHunt, Thomas Lea and Mark J. Stewart. • -\'~ -f-

Sir Matthew White-Ridley has been made a Privy Councillor. The following further honours are annonuced : — Earl of Zetland to be Marquis ; Viscount Cranbrook and Lord Willoughby de Eresby to be Earls ; the Bight Hon G. Cubitt, Mr W. A. T. Amherst and Mr Bissen to be Barons ; Mr A. S. Hill ; Professor Huxley, and Mr Jesse Collings to be Privy Councillors ; Mr Edward Lawson to be a Baronet; Mr Ashmead Bartlett and Mr Blundell Maple to be knights. Parliament has been prorogued to November 4.

The outgoing Government attended at Osborne on Wednesday and yielded up the seals of office, which were transferred an hour afterwards to Mr Gladstone and his colleagues. It is officially announced that Mr Sydney Buxton will he Under-Sec-retary for the Colonies ; Mr Herbert Gladstone, Under-Secretary for fcha Home Department, instead of Financial Secretary for War ; Lord Sandhurst, Under-Secretary fer War; Mr Burt, Under-Secretary of the Board of Trade; Mr W. Foster, Under-Secretary for fche Local Government Board ; Mr G. W. Russell, Under-Secretary for India ; Mr G.

G. Levenson-Gower, Comptroller of the Household, and Lord Carrington, Lord Chamberlain.

Earthquake shocks were experienced early the other morning in South Wales, Cornwall, Devon, Worcester and Glouceater, crockery was broken and furniture shifted. The shocks were severe enough to alarm the people, and drive them from their beds.

For New Zealand wheat off coast f 6oa is Wanted, but buyers only offer 29s 6d. New Zealand patent flour* 255.

( olonial barley, 24s 6d ; oats, fine 27s 6d, common 25s ; beans, 35s 9d.

Wellington mutton, 3sd; beef for.equarters, 2£d-; hindquarters, H&- ' I ■•';' 'A. ("' - h New Zealand hemp is in good demand at an advance of from 5s to 10s ; good Wellington has realised „20.

Baron Schroder, of J. Henry Schroder and Co., merchants, London, has been elevated to the rank of Baronet. Baron Palles, a member cf the Privy Council in Ireland, has be^n made a Privy Councillor in G reafc Britain.

Additional honours have been conferred as follows :- Peeiages — Mr John Mnlholland, Mr John Allen Bolls and Mr John Legh of Lynne. Baronetcies — The Lord Provost of Glasgow, Captain G. 0. Armstrong, Messrs E H. Carhutt and H. T. Forquhar, Colonel Charles Hamilton, and Mr John Jaffray, of the Birmingham Post

The following have been oreated knights :— Dr. Wm. Smith, Messrs Doug'as Straight, Goorge Irwin, John Benjamin Stone, T. H. Warner and vV. Benny Watson.