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Manawatu Herald, 2 July 1895, Page 2

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Lord Salisbury hopes to dissolve, Parliament on Monday or Tuesday next. Sir H. James has declined the Lord Chancellorship, owing to the state of his health. He prefers a lighter Cabinet office. Mr Chaplin has been appointed President of the Local Government Board. ■ J . The Times says that Sir H. James will be elevated to the Peerage, and made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, that Lord Balfour, of Burleigh, will -be Secretary for Scotland, and Mr L. Courtney, Post* maater General, and that the Cabinet will number 19 Ministers. Lord Rosebery charged Lord Salisbury with unexampled, disrespect to the House in declining to state the policy of the new Government. He asked why immediately after the defeat he sent his secretary, who met Mr Campbell-Bannerman in the street, and. demanded the seals of. his office before they had been delivered up to the Queen.?. Lord Salisbury said it was urgent, and,the office should* be filled- iip. at i oo««r The vmnfyiH*Miof

one, for which there were many precedents, and no Insult was intended* . , The Mty NeiU says that the •gaee'ii took krewell of Lord Rosebery vei'y graciously. The Admiralty intend to attach a powerful flotilla of torpedo boats to the Mediterranean squadron. Consols are quoted at over 107. The rise is attributed to the change of Ministry. The Queen has given the Royal assent to the Pacific Fisheries Bill. i The Bradford wool market is very brisfei . „ Merino top nave risen jd, and inferior crossbreds Id. : The following appointments in the new" Ministry are officially announced: — ■ Lord George Hamilton, Secretary for India. Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary for War* Sir Matthew White Ridley, Home Secretary. *' Viscount Cross, Lord Privy Seal. ; Mr 0. T. Ritchie, President of tht r&oard of Trade. ' Lord Ashbourhe, Lord Chancellor 6f Ireland. ; ; fiarf Caiogab, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. •••.'•■ ■<.-■. , lio'rU Balfonr; of Burleigh, Secretaryfor Scotland. The above, with the following .already announced, form the ,"■ Lord Salisbury, Piemier and Minister for Wreigh Affairs. Mr Balfour, First Lord of the Treastffy, I ? ; Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Duke of Devonshire, Lord President of the CdUfccil. Mr Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty. Mr Chamberlain, Secretary of ' State for the Colonies. Lord Halsbury, Lord Chancellor. Mr W. L. Jackson, Chief Secretary fpr Ireland. Mr Chaplin President of the Local Government Board. Mr L. Courtney, PostmasterGeneral. Mr Geo. N. Curzon has been appointed Under-Secretavy for the Foreign Office, ana* Mr R. W. Hanbury, M.P. for Preston, Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Mr Gosohen has been re-elected unopposed. Lord Rosebery has received the Order of the Thistle. Professor Huxley is dead. The Perthshire, with the Queensland cattle, has arrived at Gravesend. Eight beaats died since the vessel left New Zealand; some of them ,from accidents. All the; animals have wasted badly on the passage. . Heavy seas washed over the vessel for 24 hours, and the water- well on deck was smashed. The fodder was exhausted when the steamer was at Laa Palmas, and for the last 80 days the bullocks were on half rations. Mr O'Brien has been elected for Cork by a majority of 177 over Mr Rocho, the Parnellifce candidate. New Zealand mutton — First quality, B§d per lb ; second quality, B£d. Lamb averages 4£d. There is no Australian in the market. New Zealand Hemp— The market is unchanged.. New Zealand long-berried wheat, ex warehouse, nominally, 27« ; South Australian do., 27s 8d ; Victorian do. (restricted), 27s 6d, For an Australian wheat cargo on passage sellers ask 25a 4sd, and buyers offer 24s 7sd. Colonial oats, fine quality, average 25s 4£d ; common, 20s ; peas, 25s 4£d.