London.

Manawatu Herald, 24 June 1893, Page 2

London.

The Vatican has asked England to permit the Boman Catholic missionaries to resume work in Uganda. Lord Winchelsea, in the House of Lords, moved that in view of a possible outbreak of war the Government should store a six months' supply of breadstuff's in State granaries, with a view to encourage home production. « Lord Playfair objected that this would involve a corn tax of a shilling per quarter, amounting to £1, 000,000 annually, and moreover there was . plenty" of grain in the docks and stores to last the country , seven months. Lord Cranbrook suggested the withdrawal, of the motion, to which Lord Winchelsea eventually agreed. The Pall Mall Gazette announces that the Government intends to recast the financial clause of the Home Rule Bill, giving the Irish Legislature power to frame a budget up to £5,000,000, subject to ratification by the Imperial Parliament. Mr Henry R.' Farquharson, M.P. for Dorset West, has been mulcted in £5000 damages in a libel action brought by Mr Chas. Tyndall Gatty, who contested the seat with him, for imputing that the latter had been expelled from the Charter House School on a charge of immorality. The number of bales of wool which have arrived for the *next series amounts to 441,000. The American demand^ will; probably be small, owing < tb tne delay in the settlement, of the- United ' States tariff, ' * . •■■.•■",.; $ ill Wdllaglea taiitMiifi limb

of £165,000, at 4£ per cent, with a minimum of 99, was subscribed nearly twice over. Tenderers at £99 5s get 50 per cent. Three hundred thousand pounds' worth of tenders were received for Wellington loan at an average of 10s , 2d premium. The highest tender for the Wellington Sanitation Loan was £101^ 12s 6d. ■ ■- ~ Those above £99 get the full - amount tendered for. One tender was for £75,000. Mr Gladstone has agreed to lessen the Irish contribution' towards the expense of the police by £250,000., Viscount Wolmer, in the House of Commons, moved an amendment to the Home •Rule Bill prohibiting retrospective legislation by the Irish Legislature. Mr Chamberlain supported the amendment, on the ground that the opponents of the Nationalists feared that the Land League would take revenge on them for past disputes. Mr Balfour said that without some such provision as the amendment the door would be left open for reckless confiscation. The amendment was negatived by a majority of 30. The Standard says that several of the Ministers, believing it hopeless to attempt to pass the Bill 'this session, are advising the Premier to postpone it, pending the passing of some of the other measures on the Government programme. Furze fires are raging on the Yorkshire moors, and the flames extend for eleven- miles.