London.

Manawatu Herald, 15 June 1895, Page 2

London.

In reply to a question in the House of Commons, SirW. V. Harcourt said that before the end of the session members would be in possesiion of Lord Bosebery's proposals with regard to the reform of the House of Lords, as foreshadowed in the Prime Minister's speech at Bradford on the 20th October last.

A Thaddeu's portrait of Mr Gladstone, which was hanging in a West find gallery, has been hacked to pieces.

The act is attributed to a political motive.

Sir Samuel Wilson, the wellknown Australian squatter, is dead, aged 63 years. Mr Borthwick believes the rise in New Zealand frozen mutton will be permanent, owing to the working classes purchasing. Tbe present stocks are light, and in the event of an increase he thinks the price would not be reduced beyond a halfpenny pur lb.

The wheat market is improving, and prices are firm, with a good de mand — New Zealand frozen mutton, B£d to B£d per 1b ; the Wooloomoo* loo's Adelaide pork, 39j.

Mr 'William O'Brien, M.P., has been adjudged bankrupt, owing to the non-payment of Chancery law costs.

The press generally recognise that the fact of the Government advane* ing the resolution for reform of the House of Lords points to an early dissolution of Parliament.