London.

Manawatu Herald, 9 May 1895, Page 2

London.

News his been received that the Frencb'&rMition, paying no attention to the protests of Great Britain, continued its advance, and claimed the right bank of the Niger as far as Gurma. ''-

The report of the Opium Commission with regard to the traffic in India is decidedly adverse to interference with the importation of the drug, and declares that the agitation in England is due to overdrawn pictures as to its effect. The House of Commons by a majority of 121 rejected a motion brought. forward by Mr A, C. Morton, member : for Peterborough, and. seconded by Mr Labouohere, to revoke the .Duke of Edinburgh's allowance of £10,000 now. that he had succeeded to the throne of Coburg. The opponents of the motion defended the payment of the allow* ance on the ground that the Duke maintains Clarence House in England.

Tallow — Medium mutton, 22s Gd ; medium beef, 21s.

The English wheat market is changing a little for the worse ; the Continental is showing a general advance, and the American is also advancing

Messrs Berry and Barclay, corn factors, report that the large cargoes of wheat afloat will check the inflation of the market.

The steamer Gulf of Lyons, from Sydney, has arrived at Dunkirk. Seventy-three of her bullocks are alive, and in good condition. Four beasts died in the Tropics.

At the wool sales a poor selection was offered, but bidding was spirited,

and prices remain unchanged. I Mr Buxton, Parliamentary Secretary to the Colonial Office, replying to a question respecting the protest of the Boers against the annexation of Ambegesa, said the serious state of affairs in that territory had Compelled the Government td fllacS it under the sanie administration as Zululand. The action of England did not arise from any ill-feeling against the Transvaal. The convention of 1884 prevented the Boers from encroaching on the country. Jabeft Balfour, arrested in South America in connection with the Liberator frauds, has reached England.

He was smuggled ashore at Southampton on a Customs launch, this step being taken to evade the small army of pressmen who were waiting to interview the prisoner. On arrival in London he was conveyed to the Bow street Police Station, the efforts to evade the crowd at Waterloo Railway Station being successful. Balfour was subsequently brought before the Court and remanded.

Jabez Balfour was charged at Bow street with the fraudulent misuse of £20,000 of trust money belonging to the House and Lands Investment Trust Company, also the moneys of building securities of 4he , Company, and conspiring with Hobbs and Wright, contractors, to | defraud the Company. Mr Gladstone, in a letter, declares that the conduct of the Sultan with regard to Armenia is worse than the treatment of Bulgaria in 1876, when the insurrection in the latter country was suppressed with great cruelty. He declares that the nation will support Lord Bosebery in the energetic action being taken to prevent a repetition of the atrocities by the Turkish soldiery in Armenia. News has been received that the atrocities perpetrated by Turkish soldiery on Christians continue in Armenia, but on a smaller scale than formerly. The Daily ChronicU urges firm and immediate action being taken by the Imperial Government to stop the outrages. Consols are quoted at 106, which is the highest price on record. The butter stocks have virtually been cleared, and the demand is good. Factory-made is quoted at 80a, and dairy made at from 75s to 78s.