CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 19 February 1895, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. The Queen's Bench has ordered Mr W. O'Brien, M.P., to pay Mr Chance, solicitor, £400, the balance of law costs in the Salisbury slander action. Some 40,000 people are starving in Birmingham in consequence of the stoppage of worts by the Bevere weather. The municipal bodies are being asked to raise a relief fund. Messrs Wilson, Lloyd, Everett and other members are moving in the House of Commons to initiate a world's conference to legalise silver, and restore stability to the currency. New Zealand long-berried wheat, ex-warehouse, 255, market flat ; South Australian do, 2Gs, firmer ; Victorian do, 25s Gd, firmer. Frozen mutton — First quality, B|d ; second quality, 2Jd. Lamb averages, sd ; finest quality quoted at 6M. The frozen meat market is very depressed. Terrible distress is reported in London and the other centres, and the cold weather is throwing many thousand workmen out of employment. The We3t Indian Docks are frozen, and several Australian steamers are embedded in ice. The Isle of Man is snowbound, and several villages are buried. Eighty deaths from the cold weather have been reported in Loudon in four days. Intormation has been received that the natives of the Jambea district, in Java, plotted to massacre the entire European and Chinese population of the district. Fortunately the conspiracy leaked out before the time was ripe for action, and fifty natives have been placed under arrest. Had the plot succeeded, serious trouble would have resulted, as several influential chiefs were implicated in it. Bergyl, of Liverpool, claims to have invented a defrosting process, and that six hours arc sufficient for the operation. He declares that under his process mutton should realise £d per pound more than the ordinary frozen mutton. Some experts declare that the new invention is not equal to Nelson's. Mr James Nelson has invented a process under which he claims that he will complete the thawing of mutton in five hours, and beef in eleven hours. Mr Valentine states that the trade considers the samples of tobacco sent by the New South Wales Government are the best colonial specimens yet submitted, and that the flavour resembles dark Virginian. The samples are valued at 3£d, and it is considered that if greater skill is displayed in the cultivation it will be possible to obtain from 5Jd to 6£d. Mr Valentine advises that several tierces be sent as samples, and converted into Cavendish. Sir Win. McGregor returns to New Guinea in April. During his visit he has read papers before several societies urging merchants to send agents to New Guinea to plant sugar, tea and coffee plants, and cocoanut3. Several capitalists wish to form a company to acquire rights of territory, but Sir William is opposed to the proposition beliving that it would be distasteful to the colonies. He urges the Secretary of State for the Colonies to transfer the Solomon Group to himself, when he would be better able to control the labour traffic. The expense which will be involved by the appointment of Magistrates is likely to hinder consent being granted.