CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 22 November 1892, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. The proceedings upon the petition against the return of the Hon A. P. Balfour have collapsed. The case chiefly depended on the evidence of Barber, who declared he had received £15 from Ealfour's agent, for the purpose 'of bribing the electors. Barber admitted, however, he ex pected to receive £200 if the petition was successful. The Judges considered this witness' evidence pure. Scotfc Saunders, ex army surgeon, pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery to the extent of £15,000. Sentence was reserved till next session. Reports from the wool consuming centres convey a good general impression that prices will rise at next series. There is good enquiry for Bradford tops. The Socialists have petitioned the London School Board to feed and clothe the children of the poor. A committee is considering what can be done. The Turners Company and Sir Richard Cotton propose State emigration to the colonies as a means of settling the labour disputes. Sir W. J. Clarke opposes the suggestion urging that emigration would not help the workers, but rather tend to injure them. The Pall Mall Gazette advises that a tax should be imposed on foreign wool, to prevent the Australian product going to America. General Booth, in the course of an interview, advocated that the workmen of Australia should cultivate and ultimately purchase runs held by capitalists, Sir Julius Yogel has been appointed secretary to an English insurance company. Mr Morley, Irish Secretary, has refused to sanction the resolution passed by the National School Board of Ireland, giving a share of the Imperial grant to schools managed by the Christian Brothers or other monastic orders. Archbishop Walsh declares that Mr More-ley has given a plain object lesson upon the utter futility and the fraudulency of the Rome Eule professions of the Gladstone Government. Mr Dalton's petition against Mr Pullam, anti-Parnellite, who was elected for South Meath, elicited the fact that the priests threatened the electors with Hell if they voted for the Parnellite candidate. Bishop Nulty's pastoral was of an extraordinary character. Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the Thirsk railway accident, resulted in a verdict of manslaughter being returned against the signalman. The jurymen considered the directors of the company were responsible for insisting on long shifts. New Zealand long-berried wheat, ex warehouse, 33s ; restricted. Canterbury mutton, 4d ; Wellington do, B£d. Beef Forequarters, 3£d : hindquarters, 3|d. Hemp is very firm, but there have been few sales, owing to the high prices. The bulk of the Austral's butter realised 112s to 120s per cwt. Com. plaints are made that many of the boxes are £lb to lib light weight. , The A orangi's butter was equal to ' the AustraPsiu quality and packing,

and fetched similar. piices. The Daily Chronicle says the Go. vernment will not release prisoners who are serving sentences for participation in dynamite outrages. Earl Dunraven describes the Evicted Tenants' Commission as a fiasco, though, in some respects, the most arbitrary and unconstitutional proceeding ot the century. It is, he saySj a significant exhibition of the lawless and. tyrannical character of latter day Radicalism; A severe fight took place over the eviction of a farmer at Kanturk. Boiling water, red hot irons and live coals were showered on the bailiff and his assistant. The jurymen empanelled in the case of McEae, charged with the A 1 thorp murder, left the Court at the luncheon hour. The Judges, therefore, postponed the trial until next Assizes, and fined the jurymen £50 each.