London.

Manawatu Herald, 26 September 1895, Page 2

London.

The young Duke of Marlboroneh, who succeedtd to the title in 1892, is engaged to Mis* Comuelo Vand- rbilt, daughter of Mr William Vandei'bilt, the American millionaire. Sir T. P. Buxton, the new Governor of South Australia, has saikd for Adelaide. Puinful revelations have come to light with reference to the sick people with the French expedition in Madagascar. It is said there are only four doctors to attend to 1000 cases. Many of the unfortunates lie on the bare ground. Tallow — Medium mutton, 22s 9d ; medium beef, 2ls 3d. Hides — Queensland light ox, 4£d ; New South Wales, heavy, 6 l-16d ; light, 4 15 16d. A shipment of 263 orates of New Zealand cheese, coloured, sold at 27h 6d to 84*. Mr Morris, of Wanganui, has passed first in the Indian Givil Service examination 1000 marks ahead of all others. In regard to the hanging of Mr Stokes, a British trader, in the Congo district, West Africa, by Maj ?r Lothaire, a Belgian officer, without a judicial trial, on a charge of hiving supplied arm* to the Mahdiata, it is reported that the English Govern ment will demand a cession of territory as an indemnity for the murder. It is reported that the missing barque Stoneleigh, which was bound from Melbourne to London, foundered off Cape Horn, all on board being | drowned. The Foreign Office state that France has given i-o inimation of a desire to abrogate th- New Hebrides -convention, and therefore it would be superfluous to ask for an assurance on the question. Baron H. de Worm**. Conservative member for the Et*t Tuxteih DM riion of Liverp >01, has accepted a peerage. The Standard says the majority of the bullocks brought by the Southern Cross are scarecrows, and add 3 that ihe result of this voyage, fortunately for the cause of humanity, shows the I futility of attempting -to .establish the live stock trade. The Southern Cross's beef U realising 29 lid. > Two more of her cattle have been. '

found to be suffering from pleuropneumonia.