London.

Manawatu Herald, 7 August 1897, Page 2

London.

The Eogal Commission appointed to enquire into the state of th^ agricultural industry of Great Britain has presented its report, in which it attributes the depression to 6h« great fall in the values of produce. Aay material relaxation in formgu competition is not to be expected. It recommends that increased security should be given tc tenants, with full compensation tor improve ments, and the granting of Staw assistance to Landlords to enable them to execute permanent improvements. It advises the extension o' co-operative creameries, factories, iind the diffusion of information about dairying. The Irish Judicature Bill ha* passed it"? third reading in the Hous< of Commons. In a dispatch to the BMpim Government, Lord Salisbury , Prim< Minister, states that the result of ih trial of M»jor Lothaire for th> murder of Mr Stokes has sh-iken th confidence of Britain in the admin istratioo of Justice in the Cong' Free State, and that the cbarg. made against Mr Stokes of inoitio^ a civil war wan only an after-thcfugbt. It wa3 Mr R. M. Hawker, of Adelaide, who won the Grand Prix at Odtead, and not Furrier Sergeant (}. Hawker, of Viotoria.