CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 3 October 1895, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. Lord Lamington has been ap poinied Governor of Q, leyn.-land. Tho Times my* that he h i travelled wkk-Iy, and will be like \ to prove .a, good succespor to Sir H. Norman, whoso record of. ably ami kindly government it will be difficult to surpass. A British ultimatum has been presented to the Court of Pdkin regarding the riots in the inland province of Szechuen. It demands the issue within 14 days of an edict degrading the Viceroy of that province ; otherwise the Admiral on the China Station will be instructed to take action. Archdeacon Woolfe exonerates Mr Mansfield, the English Consul a< Poochovv, from the charge of apathy in connection with the Kucbeng massacre. The Consuls at Kucheng prnposp to bring th* enquiry to a terrain a tion. They fi:id the opposition of the Chinese intolerable. The soldiery openly insulted Mi Mansfield. : The Standard hints that it ispossible thai Nankin may be occupied by British troop*. The annual meeting of the share holders of ih j N wZ-iland Shipping Company will be held in L nd.>n on October 9. Aft -r fully providing for d j pivcia ion, the directors recommend th< j payment of a dividend kt the rate of 4 per cent per annum. At the wool sales on the 28 h ultimo, a medium solect-ion was offered. Competition was good, and prices were unchanged. The Cheviot Hills brand bruiiglit BJ. The total quantity of wool catalogued up to date is 67,400 baies, of which 66.400 hi\e been sold. The Antwerp sales are fixed for the 22nd October. The English wheat market shows a general advance of sixpence, and the Continental and American are also advancing. A < ago of Victorian wheat, n u <- -hip William Muche.l, sold at 23 ■< 9d. Lieut. Colonel S c Walter W kin has been cho«n Lid M yo. 1 of London. Seventeen British warship are now assembled at LeuiLOS, in the iEgean Sea. '*""'" ; '

■■f * The Porte is alarmed at ithis action on the part of the Imperial Government.

Both the English and French papers lament the death of M. Pasteur as the loss of the foremost scientist of the age.