CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 9 February 1895, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. The Irish Part}' have re-elected Mr Justin McCarthy chairman. • At a meeting of the Nelson Bros. Company, the Chairman said the largo surplus of sheep in Australia would inevitably affect the price of Nero Zealand mntton in the English market. The Company would not suffer, however, as they had further reduced contract prices in view of the depression. r iho affairs of the Company, he said, were in a satisfactory eontj^ajjufc they had lost 46000 by floods in Ne> Zealand. - -Mr Marghett was elected director, and Messrs Frederick Nelson and Scott were re-elected, to the directorate. '-„. The butter market is recovering, and Averages 98a per cwt. The glut of the article is reduced. • ''BajrottHersohell, librd Chancellor, denies any imputation of misconduct i»-fef6rerice^o*BTril6land V. Williams. He admits that it was possibife for expediency that a- more permanent transfer- was. contemplated, bjjt so far as Sir Robert Romer'a appdratment to - Justice ... Williams 1 ..position waa concerned, it was only temporary. He resents the, statements circulated as to Sir Roland V. Willftrms! action with regard to the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, and declares that the charge that, it was desired to screen some person ia absolutely untrue. Lord Herschell asserts that he did motr not intend to transfer Sir Roland Williams from the Bankruptcy Court Bench against hi 3 will. The Hauraki Goldmining Company of New Zealand has been placed on the market. The capital of £50,---000 has been almost subscribed in full. The wool sales closed on Tuesday. There were 92,000 bales sold to Continental and 16,000 to American buyers ; 92,000 taken for Home consumption, and 50*000 withdrawn. Compared with the prices at the previous sale 3, good free merino remains steady, faulty and inferior Ad lower, srossbreds par to id lower, I inferior £d to Id lower.

Intense cold is being experienced in England, and in parts of the Midlands the thermometer has dropped as low as six degrees below zero. A violent snow blizzard has swept over Scotland and the northern portion of England and Wale?;