CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 27 May 1893, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. Lord Salisbury received an immense, ovatibh 'on his arrival in Belfast. The horses were taken out of his carriage, which was then drawn through the principal streets by. a number of his admirers. , Chesterfield, secretary of the Dock Labourers' Union at Hull, attempted to commit suicide, being appalled, it is said, by. the., misery resulting from the recent strike. '•■/ Eight thousand men went . on 'strike,' and there is now employment no more than sufficient for one thousand of that number. 1 -Mr. Gladstone, in a letter to the press,' sa3's he regards the Free Church of Scotland as genuinely representing the Scottish reformation. It is reported that the Queen rejected the list of Birthday honours proposed by Mr Gladstone. At the head of the list was the name of Earl Spencer, who, it was suggested, should be created a Marquis. Sir William Jervois, in the course of an ''interview, declared that if the colonies separated from Great Britain'tßiey mnstrfaU a prey, to either

France, Germany, or China. The date of the Duke of York's marriage to Princess May is fixed for July 6 Tjie Daily Chronicle estimates that the. loss by the drought in f r'arice will amount to £82,000,000 Sixteen and a half million acres of feed crops have been destroyed. In Germany also the drought is , also ruining the crops. Lord Salisbury received numerous addresses on his Arrival at Belfast. In reply he said his ancestors, in the time of James I, had induced Scotch emigrants to settle in Ulster, and he must keep faith with their descendants and protect the people who objected to Home Rule. Lord Salisbury received a great ovation at a public meeting which he addressed in the Ulster Hall, Belfast.. There was an immense audience? He said Mr Gladstone undertook a grave responsibility if lie attempted: to force his crazy scheme of Home Rule on Ulster. .