CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 16 February 1895, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

+ London. In the House of Commons, in re* ply to a question, the Chancellor of the Exchequer deolined to name any time when he would introduce the Payment of Members Bill. He men* tioned that when introduced it would be a distinot measure from the Election Expenses Bill. The Badioals are irritated at Sir W. V. Harcourt's decision to shelve the Payment of Members Bill, and have decided to " heckle " the Government on the matter. Didbley, Block, Major, Wright and F. M. Coldwells (M.F. for Lambeth), all directors, and Theobald, auditor, are charged with defrauding the Liberator companies, chiefly the Lands Allotment Company. It is alleged against them that since 1889 they knew that the Companies were insolvent and prevented enquiry by issuing false balancesheets ; that they connived at dummy

I purchases by Newman, surveyor, at inflated values; that they issued nominal cheques and divided fictitious profits. The British claimants have accepted the President's cr o i 4 jj5,- ! 000 dollars in settlement of all demands under the Behring Sea Commission's award on the sea fisheries question. Judge Williams refused to appoint a specific liquidator for the Bank of South Australia, leaving the Official Eeceiver undisturbed. He postponed the granting of committee of inspection, saying he disliked the idea. ■ Owing to the amount of ice in the Thames, big Vessels cannot get further up the river than Tilbury. Twenty degrees of frost is registered in the suburbs of London nightly. The crew of a Hull trawler, wrecked on the Wigton coast, olimbed up a precipice 50fc, and there dug a snow hut. The men were rescued, but were paralysed and frostbitten. It will be necessary for all of them to have some of their limbs amputated. A compauy of the Grenadier Guards was drilled ob the ice oil the Serpentine last "Tuesday. tn the course ot his reply in the House of Commons to questions concerning the Payment of Members Bill, the Chancellor of the Exchequor, SirW. V. Harcourt, said the Bill: would not include provision for defraying the election expenses of members. The Government had not abandoned the Bill, but it Was a question of time and money. Speaking to an amendment proposed to the motion in favour of the adoption of the Address-in-Iteply by Mr J. ,J. Clftncyi member for Dubliti, in favour of an amnesty to dynamiters, Mr Asquith, Home Secretary, said he thought the time had net yet come for the exercise of clemency towards this class of prisoners. He promised, however, that he would consult the Judges before whom they had been tried.