CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 28 January 1897, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London.

A snowstorm and gales have been experience! throughout Great Britain. Several trains have been buried in the snow, and a number of deaths are reported from the effects of the excessive cold. English capitalists, throuffi Messrs Collins, Levy and Jerome Dyer, two ex-Victorians, have offered to embark a quarter of a million sterling in the Victorian wine trade, to purchase 100,000 gallons annually, and expend £8000 in advertising if the Victorian Government will guarante§ 8 per cent, interest on the money invested for 14 years. The representatives of an American wool fiim have bought all the best wools in the market at top prices. It is estimated that half a million carcases -of mutton are in store, while 850.000 carcases are afloat for Great Britain. Experts consider it impossible to raise the price until colonial shipments aro checked. The Powers have agreed to appoint representatives to hold a conference at Venice to decide what Bteps shall be taken to prevent the spread of the bubonic plague to Europe. The Irish Parliamentary Party has taken steps to compel the* Healyites to accept Mr Dillon as leader, giving them the option of doing this or leaving the party. At a meeting of the Irish party, power was claimed to expel members or ask them to resign on an absolute majority. Mr Michael Davitt moved that it was- incumbent on the public to support the policy arranged as declared by the chairman. ( Mr Tim Healy moved an amendment that the pledge to the electors was the best guarantee of cohesion. He objected to the chairman being granted the powers mentioned. The division resulted in 16 voting for the nmendment, and 83 against it. Mr Davitt's motion was then carried, but Mr Healy intends to take no notice of the decision. Tho shareholders in the engineerin" fi m of Sir Joseph Whitwortb and Co have agreed to the amalgamation with Sir W. Armstrong, Mitchell and Co. I united.