London.

Manawatu Herald, 11 December 1894, Page 2

London.

Lord George Hamilton has bees' elected Chairman of the London School Board. It is reported that Great Britain will shortly annex Ashantee. The Government has ordered the permanent arming of the Canadian* , . Pacifio and P. and O. steamers.and has also decided that tach lhajl carry a gunner. The wool sales closed firm. . American buyers took 5500 bales. The Bradford wool market is quiet. The shareholders in the Bank of New Zealand threaten to combine to oppose the call just made by the directors. Mr Pateson, of the Fresh Food and Ice Company, Sydney, who hai returned from a visit to Sweden ttUct P Denmark, is convinced that if the j Australian butter producers are pre- ■■; pared to temporarily accept prices enabling the colonial article to be retailed at Is per pound, the Australian butter must beat the Danish - article, especially in the winter, and that it will ultimately control the - market. The Danes, he says finding the dairy industry ruinous, are likely to abandon it. Australia, he asserts, can easily undersell the Danes. ' ■•■'■ A large quantity of forged bonds of the United States are in circulation in the United Kingdom. In Belfast alone £80*000 worth have been taken. The election for the Brigg seat

(Lincolnshire) in the" House ot Commons took piace to-day, and resulted 1 in the return of Mr J. U. ttichardson, Conservative, who defeated Mr Reckitt, the Liberal can*didate, by 770 votes. It is reported that Russia will not interfere in the Armenian outrages.