London.

Manawatu Herald, 5 December 1895, Page 2

London.

Jabez Balfour, who has been sentenced to a term of 14 years for the Liberator frauds, will be tried at the Old Bailey on December 9 on a charge of evading his creditors. The English wheat market is steady, the Continental dull, and the American changing a little for the better. Tallow — 1900 casks were offered, and 800 sold. Medium mutton, 22s 3d ; ditto beef, 21s 6d. The total number of bales catalogued to date at the wool sales is 45,800 of which 41,000 have been iold. Great uproar has been caused in Dublin University by the nomination of Mr Wright and Dr Lecky, the historian, to contest the vacancy i caused in the representation of the I

University in the House of Commons by Mr Plunkett's elevation to the Peerage. Dr Lecky is being roughly handled on account of his religious opinions. King Leopold of Belgium is to visit England to discu? 0 the murder of the trader Stokes in the Congo. Mr Chamberlain is issuing a circular to the colonial Governors asking for details of the extent of foreign imports from 1884 to 1894.