London.

Manawatu Herald, 20 June 1893, Page 2

London.

In the House of Lords to-day, ia reply to a question, Lord Rosebery, Secretary of State for the Foreign Departmant, said he had no official information regarding the extent of French encroachment in Siain, and at present the Imperial Government had no desire to meddle in the matter. A section of city financiers, who resent the taxing of the WellingtonManawatu Railway Company's debentures, are attempting to block the Wellington Sanitation Loan, for which tenders close on Tuesday. Captain Thomas Hope, Conservative, has been elected for Linlithgowshire. in place of MrPetprMcLagan, Liberal,, who became bankrupt and had to resign. The recognition of colonial title of 4 honorable ' throughout the British Empire is gazetted.. Mr J. Morragh, Nationalist mem ber for Cork, has resigned. His action is the outcome of the dispute between Messrs Sexton and Healy. Mr Morragh was a partisan of the latter. In committee on the Home Rule Bill the Irishmen and 70 of the Radical Party voted against Mr Gladstone's acceptance of the Unionist amendment, and several members of both these sections protested against the unaccountable fatuity of the Government in conceding amendments when the measure was at an irreducible minimum In the House of Commons, Mr Clfiuey, M.P. for Dublin North, was ! equally emphatic in his protest ' against Mr Gladstone's action in accepting Unionist amendments to '

the Home Rule Bill, and suggested that the revolt among the Irish members of the House of Commons was attributab c to dissatisfaction at the new financial proposals of the Government. Frozon mutton, first quality, 4d ; second quality, 3 9-lGd ; beef, forequarters, 3-|d ; hindquarters, sd. j New Zealand hemp, £21 10s. Kauri gum is in moderate demand, but the prices are irregular. There is it declitie of "?s 6d for Sfirftpeii and 5s for three-quarter scraped. New Zealand long-berried wheat, exwarehouse, firmer at 80s 3d. For off-coast cargoes sellers ask 265 ; buyers offer 6d less. South Aus tralian wheat, exwarehouse, firmer 33s j Victorian" j exWarehouse, also is firmer at 323 6d. For Australian off coast cargoes 80s is asked, and 29s 6d is offered. At the wool sales there was a downward tendency in the merino class. At the Bradford sales a decline is anticipated.