London.

Manawatu Herald, 17 December 1892, Page 2

London.

The petition against the return of Mr W. Redmond for the East Clare seat has been dismissed. The site of the Milbank Prison is to be offered for sale by auction. The petition in connection with the Finsbury election is simply one for sent tiny of votes. Many alien votes have* been disallowed, and the contest is now regarded as very close. Messrs'Lipman and Company, of Dundee, jute merchants, have failed, with liabilities amounting to a quarter of a million sterling. . The deaths are announced of Sir John Bernard Burke, LL.D., • Ulster king of Arms,' the celebrated writer of heraldry ; and of Willie Beckwith, the well known swimmer. The man who wantonly shot at and assaulted Miss Wood (niece of Mr Goschen) and Miss Philbrick, in i vugust last, has been pronounced to be insane, and ordered to be con • fined in a lunatic asylum at the Queen's pleasure. William Watson, poet, stopped the carriage in which the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh were driving in Windsor Park. He has since been placed in Close confinement as a dangerous lunatic unfit to be at large. Mr Gladstone has convened a meeting of the Cabinet to consider the granting of autonomy to Ireland. Lord Rosebery expresses himself confident that the Government will be able to secure the adoption of a Home Rule policy. At the wool sales, faulty and burry wools are neglected, and prices are weak all round. A large number of bales have been withdrawn. Australian shipments brought from fid to Is IJd per lb. City merchants consider that the proposal to grade butter shipped in the colonies will be fruitless, as the voyage alters the value of the, article.