London.
The autumn rains have caused severe floods in the south west . of England.
A thousand people have been rendered homeless in the vicinity of Bath, and the country around Gloucester is a huge lake. The Thames Valley is inundated from Windsor to Oxford.
The town of Maidenhead is partially submerged. Huntly Palmer's biscuit factory at Beading is flooded, two thousand hands being thus deprived of work.
The railways in the west and south are seriously blocked.
Mr Justice Williams has stayed the proceedings against the old directors of the NeW Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, on the ground that the new Company would be commercially injured.
James Canham Bead has been sentenced to death for the murder of Florence Dennis at Southend ill
June
Owing to the adverse criticisms of the Australian press the Butter Committee has not fixed a price for tbis week.
Members allege that they have been unfairly treated, and it is understood they have virtually agreed to disband.
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Manawatu Herald, 20 November 1894, Page 2
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163London. Manawatu Herald, 20 November 1894, Page 2
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