London.

Manawatu Herald, 9 October 1894, Page 2

London.

The Ministers have resumed their holiday. The British Charge cV Affaires, after a cordial interview with M. Hanotaux, French Minister of Foreigu Affairs, declared that every difficulty was perfectly susceptible of settlement. The French Cabinet meeting was simply for the purpose of signing Baron Counsel's appointment as Ambassador to London. Count Kreitz and Baron Wolde, Russian explorers, with two hundred armed followers are starting to explore the region in East Africa be^ tween Lake Stepbenson, Rudolph and the Nile. Tho Standard's Russian correspondent reports that the Czar's symptoms are believed to reveal cancer of the kidneys. The Danish Government expert report favourably upon the New Zealand red birch for wood paving. Mr John Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, hiis sanctioned the employment of Christian Brothers in the Catholic school in Ireland. A lunatic rushed to shake hands with the Duke of York on the occasion of a State entry into Leeds. One of the escorting Lancers slashed the man's arm, and another rode him down. It is reported that the condition of the Czar is much more serious, but nothing ig known at the Russian Embassy about the rumour. The latest message from St. Petersburg states that he is very weak, but not confined to bed. He gops to Corfu in December. This marriage of the Czarewiteh has, in consequence of his father's illness, been indefinitely postponed. There was a general fall on the Bourses in Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam, owing to the report that the Czar was worse.