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Manawatu Herald, 9 January 1894, Page 2

London

The reconstruction scheme of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company calls up £5 10s per share payable. in. a fortnight, but allowing the holders of ordinary shares eighteen months and of preference shares two years for payment, with five per cent interest added, Canon Danks, Rector of Richmond, Yorkshire, has been offered the vacant Bishopric of Wellington, New Zealand. • •■

A minority of the Labour Commission, led by Mr Tom Mann, are preparing a report advising the miners to adopt eight hours, and in-

sisting on a great increase on factory inspectors. They also urge that Slate conciliation boards should be invi'stid with compulsory powers for the production of documents and the enforcement of their decisions.

Mr Manrt agreed Id actiept the secretaryship . of the Independent Labour Party.

The Home Secretary has informed Mr John Burn?, M.P., that the Government next session hope to legislate against Uil reasonably long hours of labour*, and that he trusts that the em ployors^of labour indaugeToiis trades will adopt eight hour shifts*

Intense doUL with frequent blizfjarcb, lias been experienced in England and on the Continent, especially in Vienna, where fifty accidents are reported.

Heavy snow storms are stopping the traffic, and several persons have been frozen to death in Paris, Berlin and Munich.

Ice prevents the navigation of the Germau rivers.

The Parish Councils Bill has passed through committe, except the new and postponed clauses.

The banks consider the scheme of the New Zealand Government to guarantee the mortgage loans of farmers highly injurious and beyond the province of the Government.

Telegrams from Sierra Leone, Western Africa, published in the London newspapers, state that the French attacked the British camp at Warrina before dawn on the 23rd D. cembsr.

The British replied to the fire, and the fighting lasted for some lime ; but eventually the French withdraw, their commander, Lieut. Moritz, having been wounded. The latter was brought, into camp, where he died.

Before his death he explained that he thought the British were a body of "Sofas (a tribe ngainst whom the French arc operating) officered by Arab leaders. In the fight 10 on the French side were killed. The West India Regiment (British) had Lieutenants Liston and B rough ton, a sergeant, and four privates killed, and 15 seriously wounded. The frontier polio had Captain Lendy and two men killed and three seriously wounded. The attack by the French on the British camp at Warrina was made by blight moonlight, and the French mistook the white suits of the British for the robes of Arab chiefs. The British were surprised, but dogged'y held their ground, regardless of the death of their leaders.

The weather is colder in London than for thirty years past. At Shorncliffe, in Kent, the thermometer was at Zero.

Many accidents are reported, and all traffic is seriously impeded. The Thames is frozen at Great Marlow, Windsor, and Teddington.

Forty degrees of frost have been experienced in many parts of Germany.