London.

Manawatu Herald, Volume 06, 6 April 1893, Page 2

London.

Bishop Selwyn has been elected to the mastership of the Selwyn College, Cambridge.

The Foreign Office has discovered that in the American translation of Russian documents respecting the Behriug Sea dispute important points were falsified in fivour of the American claims. The United States Government admits that an error was

made.

In the Durham coal trade there is depression affecting 10,000 miners.

In a sermon on Sunday, Cardinal Vaughan insisted that the world would eventually recognise Christian education not as a mere shibboleth only, but as a Christian exercise. Referring to Socialism and Anarchism, he said their introduction was the work of the

devil.

been

The Duchess of Fife hai accouched of a daughter.

Mr E. L. Stevenaon, the novelist, in a letter to the Times, complains that Sir J. B. Thurston, Governor of the Western Pacific, occasionally issues ordinances of a barbarous nature.

Mr Balfour had a tremendous reception at Belfast, in which 500 working men from the North of England took part. He, addressing a meeting, declared that if Ulster and England persevered in their request for autonomy, it would be impossible for the majority of the English people to become its determined opponents.

There is considerable excitement in Belfast and, as there is a suspicion that mischief is brewing, the police are shadowing prominent men. The military are being prepared for any emergency. Mr Balfour, in his speech at Belfast, asserted that the majority in the south-west were disloyal and Ulster would not submit to Home Rule.

M Blowitz, the Times' Paris correspondent, declares that President Carnot is bringing about a political crisis, in consequence of his continued refusal to summon M. Constans to undertake the formation of a Government. He also mentions that Count Munster, the German Ambassador to France, will shortly resign that position.