London.

Manawatu Herald, 20 October 1892, Page 2

London.

The floods have ruined the crops in Yorkshire and North Wales. Mr Kinloch Tooke will be the new editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, in succession to Mr E. T. Cook. The paper will probably become a Unionist organ.;Count B a übigny will discuss with the Sultan of Morocco the questions of constructing batteries at Tangier under French engineers, and a concession in favour of the establishment of a Franoo-Moorish Bank. Mr John Morley, Secretary for Ireland, declines to provide police protection in connection with the evictions in Ireland, except when they take place during the daylight. Times regards the refusal as an attempt to intimidate the sheriffs. The funds which have been held by the Parisian bankers since the death of Parnell have been placed in the hands of a joint committee. The Life Guards have been ordered tc Shorncliffe, in Kent. Mr R. L. Stevenson forwards a

complaint to the Times, that the Chief Justice of Samoa is interfering with the jurisdiction of the Magistrate, Mr Cooper. He also alleges that the German officials are unfit for their positions. Kate Jackson, whom the friends of Macrae, the man arrested for the Althorp murder, declared to be the woman murdered, is proved to have sailed for New Zealand on the 28th August, some days after the discovery of the murder. The British Government has ordered the jonstniction of 14 new torpedo boats* Hosmer and G-audaur beat Hanlan and O'Connor by seven lengths in a double sculling race at Ontario. Captain Lugard, in a letter to The Times, advocates that Indian immigrants be sent to Uganda. He de* dares that the Government are pledged by the Brussels Act to construct railways in that district, and states that it is possible to govern Uganda for £2,000 per annum. The British East Africa Company, he says, has irrevocably decided to retire from the country. Mr Arnold Morley, PostmasterGeneral, has promised Mr Perceval that he will submit the question of the San Francisco service to the Treasury again. He hinted that if the service were fortnightly,, instead of monthly as at present, it would be of much more importance, and would demand greater consideration. The Minister appeared to be impressed with the Agent-General's argument that Vancouver will probably soon replace San Francisco as the terminus, and hence the present agreement need not necessarily be for long Bishop Selwyn has undergone another operation on his leg. He is progressing favourably. Mr Arnold White estimates that there are half a million unemployed in London The English mutton market is very depressed owing to the farmers forcing sales of stock. The wheat market is firm, and prices are slightly dearer.