London.

Manawatu Herald, 30 April 1895, Page 2

London.

It is expected that the Budget to bo delivered by Sir W. V. Harcourt will still further remove duties in the direction of a free breakfast table. The Earl of Rosebery has recovered from his recent illness. With the approval of the Unionist leaders, Mr Peel, son of the exSpeaker, has retired from the contest for Warwick. Mr Ward, secretary of the Master Bootmakers' Association, claims that the masters have secured a charter of liberties, and practically gained all their demands. It is intended to register the federation as a Trades Union, In an arfciole discussing the Army the Times says it distrusts the entire War Office system. The Army is the most costly and the least effective of those owned by the Great Powers, and only in India has it become a fighting body. With an expenditure of £18,000,000 annually it asks why the cavalry is not fit to go into war, and it adds that Great Britain is not able to place a singU army corps in the fieia, without a struggle. The building strike has been averted by the masters agreeing to arbitrate. Mr 0 Kelly, who is a supporter of Mr Justin. . McCarthy, has been returned for the vacant seat of Wicklow. East in the House of Commons, defeating Mr Bweetman by 62 votes. The vacancy was caused by the resignation of Mr Sweetman, who resigned after seceding from the Redmond Party. Mr A. J. Balfour, in addressing the members of the Primrose League, declared that the Old Radicalism was played out, and that the Liberal Party was impotent while it was linked with the Irish party. New Zealand long-berried wheat, firm at 25s 9d; Adelaide, firmer, 265 ; Victorian, steady, 25s 6d. Old Victorian is selling at the same price. New Zealand mutton has fallen First quality, B£d ; second 2fd. Lamb averages 4d. . The hemp market is quiet. Fair Wellington £12. Cheese — Flat. New Zealand, 42s to 465. Danish butter has fallen three kroner. Choicest, 90s; fine 803. Australian is unchanged. - : The Nairnshire's cattle are bringing £16 to £22. The Thermopylae's rabbits and poultry are bringing excellent prices, the same as the Celtic's. Some of the skinned rabbits were turned out mouldy.