London.

Manawatu Herald, 5 December 1893, Page 2

London.

A few days ago a young aristocrat named Leigh, who married and left with a Gaiety actress who visited Australia recently, instituted proceedings for fraud against an English solicitor, Mr John Stodgeons, aieging that he had misapplied the sum of. £48.000 lodged" with'him for' the purposes of investment. Stodgeons has been suspended for two years. , The Home Secretary, in reply to a question in the House ot Commons said he was con idering the pro priety of prosecuting Mr Samuels, editor of the paper known as Commpnv) alth, upon -a charge of inciting the Anarchists to commit murder. Immense profits have been made by the Durham coal-owners whose men did not join the strike, and who were thus enabled to command the market. The Marquis of London derry alone is said to have netted a quarter of a million. Clergymen of the Church of England and others who have been conferring regarding the best means of coping with the prevalent distress have approved' the principle that sufficient wages should be paid to enable people to live, and have suggested the appointment of Boards of Conciliation. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile debenture stock rose 2£ on 80th November. The accounts of the Tyser line for 1892 show a debit balance of £'58,000. including £20,000 lost on completed voyages.