CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 24 February 1894, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London.

The Employers' Liability Bill has been discharged from the Order Paper of the House of Commons. The Premier, in moving that this course should be taken, declared that the overwhelming majority ot workmen were opposed to the amendments made by the House of Loi'ds. Mr Balfour and M' 1 Chamberlain ridiculed the position taken up by Ministers, and said that they were committing infanticide because they had been unable to get their own way on one point. The Radicals are incensed at the want of vigour of Mr Gladstone's speech upon the action of the House ofLovda regarding the Employers' Liability Bill. The Premier directed a special whip to be sent round, with the intention of dividing on the motion that the amendments of the Upper House be laid aside, but finding this was nut of order, he substituted the motion to discharge the Bill. The Opposition declined to divide, and left the House. The Chronicle calls upon Mr Gladstone to decide whether it is time to retire, or whether he will really lead a crusade against the Peers; 1 His present . indecision and flabbiness, the paper adds, aro chilling the Party. The Daily News thinks the Premier's moderation is disappointing. ; The Unionist Press protest against *fihe proposal of Anarchists to give the man Bourdin, who was killed at Greenwich, a public funeral and form a long procession to the cemetery. The London unemployed groaned all the occupants of carriages passing through the streets. The agitators suggest that half of London should be burned down to provide work. It |s believed that certain fires that have occurred recently were due to incendiarism. A^a meeting of unsecured credit ors in the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Mr Stewart, the Official Receiver, stated that he was enquiring into transactions between the Company, Mr Thomas Russell, and the New Zealand Land Association. Sir James Ferguson said the directors courted the fullest enquiry; ; but iff 3 w *of twfani criticisms" they were not desirous" of being re-elected to office. The holders of 1892 debentures have approved the reconstruction scheme. The contributors have also adopted the scheme, though they object to the advent of the Creditors' C«r»mUte« to the fflwctofrtfi «n<3

tliey liave passed a resolntidn e\pressing confidence in the present Board. The Times thinks the attitude of the New Zealand loan and Meroan • tile directors a mistake. The Westminster Gazette says that there is really no popular agitation against the House of Lords and that j this is the true reason for MlGladstone's silence ou the subject.