GENERAL SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 27, 30 June 1885, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.") \ Auckland, Jurne 28. The neyr United Stateß Minister, Phelps; was\banqnetted by ; the Lord Mayor of London on the 3rd June. In responding to the President of the United States, Phelps assured his hearers of the pleasure with which America viewed the settlement of the between England and Russia: Ho eulogised British justiciary, whose decisions wer© reversed m America. !' . •- A London special of the Brd Jiine Rays I that the desperate condition of the Scotch land market is shown hr the* surprising number of estates now oil Wed for sal* m Scotland. One auctioneer alone adyei> tised to sell on the 2nd of June •states valued at £2,500,000. Many Americans are m the market looking for Scotoh property.. A fire broke out m, Margaret Pit of ! Philadelphia Colliery, near Durham, at | noon on the 3rd June, closed by an exI plosion, and by which twenty-two man and boys were killed outright.; The ex. plosion was followed by a rush of fwater : m immense volumes, and the whole mine overflowed, notwithstanding most 'strenuous efforts to prevent it. ■ The' British .Missionary Society, of London, breakfasted the; explorer, Stan, ley, on the 27th ;of May. Stanley m making his campaign m Europe on behalf of the Congo State very vigorously. : A despatch from-London/; dated May 31, says the most encouraging feature of the agricultural outlook is favorable, the fchange>in the weathor come. at a most opportune time, when warmth and sunshine will produce .the beat results, especially as it had been proceeded by copious rains. The backward condition of the corps and Qwcblofa'tion of the wheat has been a source.?of complaint, but it is now admittedp that- no lasting injury was done,'and if tfie present fine • weathercontinues j a fapid'inaprdvement m the harvest prospects is expected. It is now said thjit the Budget increase of duty on beer, and.;spiril;B has. been a blessing m disguise to-many, enterprising 'dealers, who have made fortunes by the exercise of ai'little freethought. , ;Lord Garmoyle, riowjEarL Cairns assumed his place m- the.House of Lordi "on June 5. ■/• '■■'„'■ I The German despatch boat Pomerania seized a Yarmouth lighter oh June 4 iv the North Sea, and towed the vessel into Wilhelms Haven, -where' she is detained on the pretence 'that the lighter was fishing m prohibited Raters. Bishop Moberley announces bis;inten:tion" to resign his Salisbiiry seat^ thii •summer on account of his age fv ;He is now 82~years old.;"-' ' ; ;'-' Letters on all eohceivable subjeots "litelypublisbod in -English papers, and bearing Mr John Ruskin'a signature, are. declared to be forgeries. Th© motive of the forger appears to have been pure ;Biischief. ■ -v ••..:-;..;; " : -._;: Mr Gladstone, replying to an inquiry made by Mr McCloan, the HomejEule ■-■ ;nieinber for Wicklowi said it wasridt theintention of GoTernment to establish i;; regular diplomatic ;reUvti6hs "with the ; ;Vatican* / ""c ■■- ■ •'■-:' V; >;: ■■. ;-;-' [':■'■■ • . Mr John Bright has written a publia . letter, approving of a:; Parliamentary grant to' Princets Beatrice as a dowry. Mr Bright says he is astonished to see Liberals .object to so small a grant while; silent concerning the extrayagance of :Government over unjust wars. •■.:>?■-%; ■ The Committee \of the Chamber of Commerce of^^Lbndpn Vh<is.forwarded to. : the Government a resolution m favor'of diverting emigration to, British colonies, jeßpecially. Australia, where the consump:tion of British goods each- exceedQ-8 per head, instead of to America, where the consumptionia only 10sahead.