London.

Manawatu Herald, 1 November 1892, Page 2

London.

It is reported that the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York will visit the Chicago Exhibition during the summer. ! The Daily News implies that it is quite possible that the Government will administer affairs in Uganda, though declining to assist the British East Africa Company. Mr Joseph Chamberlain say?, it would be both cowardly and silly to surrender Uganda. Mr J. J. O'Kelly and other Irishmen mentioned in Major Le Caron's book intend to take proceedings against the author for libel. Mr William Raun Kennedy, will succeed Mr Justice Denham. The report that Imperial troops are t > be withdrawn from Canada is , denied. Lord Salisbury, in an article in the National Review on the constitutional revision question, ridicules bhe idea of force being applied to the House of Lords, which, he says, always bows to the real declaration of the nation. Neill has confessed to the murder if four women, but one of the leading witnesses at the trial stated that Meill told him he had killed lots of women of the unfortunate class New Zealand longberried wheat, ex-warehouse, 88s 6d. Quotations for frozen meat are unchanged. The hemp market is quiet, no New Zealand manufactured being offered. Mr Gladstone has abandoned his intention of going abroad, but proposes to appear in the House ot Commons only on occasions of important business. Sir W. V. Har.court will act as the Premier's deputy whe.i the latter •,annot attend in the House of Commons. The Queen has engaged the ex Empress Eugenie's villa in Florence for Mr* «snvincf. Vendors of butter think that New Zealand farmers ought to arrange to have shipments in London in time for the October sales next year. It is reported that Mr Win. Morris has declined the appointment if Poet Laureate. Terrific gales have been experienced in the Atlantic, with seas *airl to be the heaviest known. The Hon J. Chamberlain, in an trticle in the Nineteeth Century, idvocates the legal enforcement of shorter hours for miners and others >ngaged in dangerous employment ; also earlier closing of shops, and the '.region of tribunals for arbitrating in trade disputes. He further urges m old age pension scheme for the Reserving poor, limitation of the ".outrol of pauper immigration, better 'lousing of workmen, and that local iouncils should initiate step 3to f acilitate workmen b?coming owners of their dwellings. Mr Chamberlain also suggests legislation providing that the employer should pay comi°nsation for any injury to workmen if caused by the former's neglect.