CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 20 February 1894, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. Mi* Gladstone's medical advisers report that a cataract has obliterated U: _■ .ight of one of his eyes, and that another cataract is forming in the oth n i'. Mr Gladstone wished to undergo an operation but the doctors refused to perform.it. The House of Commons disagrees with most of the amendments made by the House of Lords in the Parish Councils Bill, and a number of Unionists are supporting the Government. It insists on provision being retained in the Bill for the franchise for ratepayers who have compounded for their rates. • . : . The majorities in the Lower House in support of the Government varied from 116 to 69. During the debate on the Parish Councils Bill, Mr Chamberlain asked the .Tory Party not to support the reactionary policy of the o.ther House. , .-.•■•.■ - . ... " Mi- Balfour said he' -di.d- npb ':s&&% with the view thus expressed #y the member for Birmingham. A meeting of Liberal Unionists,' fcbe Dakes- t)6'B»vftn^iiei :^«esia% f : colfdemriea the^bttitudf of th^ Hbtfse of .Loi*dsy*and <de6liried vt&'fotibw Lord' Salisbury except *tm th^^Home Rule question. ••'■' - >■'-• The adhesion of the House of Lords to two important amendments | in. tho Sqp^ish v BUi ? j§ likely to lea!d to the* "measdre^lfe&g abaudpnech? «• •\^"i.y ~i .X-$ £ The Gbverfameh't will abandon the Employers' Liability Bill should the House of Lords persist in Lord Dudley's amendment regarding the " contracting out " clause, The brother of Bo#rden,.thenrarr who ;was' blowh 'to. pieces biitside Greenwich Observatory, siates ' that deceased was a military tailor, out of work at present, and that deceased asked him for aid. However, 13 sovereigns were found on the body when it searched;* The autopsy;, disclosed: a /piece of iron •embedded in the stomach, indicating that there was a bomb besides the bottle of explosives. It has been ascertained that Bourden had booked tor Woolwich,, but, .believing he was shadowed,, alighted at Greenwich-; arid it is supposed that his objective part was the Arsenal. The police made a . ; se|kvch.,<>f Bourdon's '-lodgings,, and jound a quantity of explosives. They also obtained access to the Autonomic Anai'ehist Club, Great Lichfield street, and searched eight tiivign fteipfcriUs ihpj& .ievavaVy arrived, but no explosives were discovered*

The polico searching the lodgings of many foreigners suspected of being connected with the Anarchists. The object of the raid is to arrest Anarchists: The entire detective force of London is enquiring into Anarchism. The police reserves have received notice to hold themselves in readiness for duty. Tho papers seized at the Autonomic k Club. prove, it to be the centre of the European outrages. Bourden, who was travelling with his brother had received large sums of money from the club's fund, and it is known that he was on the most intimate terms with Henri-.