CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS. London.

Manawatu Herald, 17 November 1892, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS. London.

Dr Nansen, the Norwegian explorer, sails for the Arctic Ocean in June, with provisions for five yeai's. He takes a boat specially constructed to bear great pressure from the ice and will endeavour to oross the North Pole by the route of a supposed current, along which wreckage drifted from the Jeannette, in 1884, to the coast of Greenland.

The Radicals are enthusiastic over regaining permission to hold meetings in Trafalgar Square.

The Economist says it is not of the slightest good to allow the present helpless liquidations in Melbourne to continue. Only the absolute liquidation of the bankrupt comnanies will meet the case.

One or two tenants and witnesses daily attend the Evicted Tenants Commission. Its time is only half occupied, and the enquiry is apparently fizzling out.

The Landlords' Convention denounces the partiality of the commission, aud advises its members to refuse to give testimony.

Mr James O'Connor advises tenants, if they are not reinstated by Parliament, to reinstate themselves, leaving Mr Morley to re-evict them.

Mr Murphy has resigned his seat on the Evicted Tenants' Commission, holding that counsel should have the right to cross- examine witnesses. Justice Matthews, replying to members who resigned, said it was not a judicial body, and he was satisfied he had taken the right course.

A start has been made to blast the rocks around H.M.S. Howe, at Ferrol.

The Daily Chronicle states the

■Government intend to despatch commissioners to report on I'ganda. befjre coming to n definite derision as to retaining the oomHry.