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Manawatu Herald, 25 October 1892, Page 2

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An anti Papist meeting, protesting against Alderman Knill's election as Lord Mayor, culminated in great disorder. The Standard expresses the fear that the decision by Mr Asquith that the meetings in/Trafalgar square are legal, means rekindling the spirit of turbulence and disorder. The Times states that it has the assurance of Mr Asquith that the permission to hold meetings there will be withdrawn if the privilege is abused. In replying to the anti-slavery deputation, Lord Rosebery admitted that Uganda was the key to Central \frica, and said that personally he was strongly adverse to the evacuation of the country by Great Britain. Eight non-commissioned officers of the° First Life guards have been dismissed. Sir Walter Philhmore, Q. 0., succeeds Mr Justice . Denham of the Queen's Bench Division, who has resigned. I he Fnancial News commends Sir G-. Dibbs for his proposal to issue £10 debentures, and urges England to develop the idea. Mr Ben > illet predicts that the

forthcoming winter will fee the worst that the dock labourers have experienced for fifteen years. There are already ninety thousand men idle. A crime similar to those perpetrated by Deeming has been discovered in Oldham, Lancashire. The body of a woman, apparently dead for several weeks, was found buried under the stairs. A grave had been dug in the kitchen, where a barrel of Quicklime was found. The husband has been arrested on a charge of having committed the murder. New Zealand longberried wheat, cX warehouse, 33s 6d ; market firmer. Mutton — Canterbury, 4£d ; Wellington, 4£d. Beef—Forequarters, 3|d ; hindquarters, 4d. "New Zealand hemp, very strong ; market advanced 30s to 40a. Fair to medium realised at auction £26 10s. The wool market is active, with a good demand. Egan, one of those imprisoned in connection with the dynamite outrages in Ireland some years ago, will shortly be released Archbishop Croke has failed in his endeavour to reconcile the Irish factions owing to the Parnellites insisting on Messrs 3. Dillon, T. flealy and William O'Brien retiring from the head of the party* Mr George Newnes, M.P., hag decided to publish a daily paper on the lines of the Pall Mall Gazette, and Mr E. T. ( l ook, who shortly retired from the latter papei'j has accepted the editorship. The Unionist press regards Lord Rosebery's assurances with respect to Uganda as satisfactory. Two men belonging to the Army Service Corps at Portsmouth have been sentenced to a year's imprisonment and ignominiously dismissed from the. Army for destroy, ing harness as a protest against extra drills. Some of the members of the Army Service Corps stationed at Chelsea have cut the harness. Neill, the Lambeth prisoner, was j tried for the murder of Matilda I Clover only, though there wer< charges against him of having poisoned three others. The defence offered no evidence, and after His Honor had summed up, the jury retired, but were onlj absent twelve minutes, returning with a verdict of. \ wilful murder.' Justice Sir Henry Hawkins ther pronounced sentence of death. His iionor characterised the murders as unexampled in atrocity.