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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1630, 9 February 1886, Page 4

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GENERAL SUMMARY. The RomaniCatholic and Episcopalian churches of America have pronounced auainst cremation. A cablegram of January 10th says that the great steel manufacturer, Mr Marshall, of Sheffield, is about to remove his entire works to America. I Some of the most skilled workmen /will, be brought over, and the rest hired m the United ,. States. One thousand men ! are employed. A despatch from London, of January Bth, says that the poverty of hundreds of Americans m that city is appalling. Subscriptions are circulating daily araonj? those with income to send the unfortunates home. More than 500 are living m | absolute squalor, and subsist only by bogging. . . • , Mr Parnell, m a letter to the leaders of the Parliamentary Aid Association of America, thanks them for the material aid received during the' late elections m England, and admits that if it had not , been for the funds so timely forwarded from Canada and the United States, nia'ny of his nominations must have failed of, success. - , 7 , .... It-is announced that the American Exhibition m London is postponed to 18&7, nominally m order to avoid" the competition with the Indian, and Colonial Exhibition this year. The American Consul-General expresses, an opinion that this postponement will, be deemed on both sides of the Atlantic us an act approaching the dignity of International courtesy. , : . ; i Colonel des Borles, whose report on the conduct of Colonel .Hertin^er created so rnucfi sensation .lecently, has returned from To'nqui.n 'to 'France.. , He will be. ' made a general . . ■ John G. Stevens, a wealthy railroad magnate of New Jersey, has committed suicide. The British steamer Chillingham sunk off Sicily by the collision of January 4th. This is the accident of. which the Sidomain was thought to be the subject. The r latter gteVmer of the Anchor Line is afloat ancHntact. : Mr Gladstone replies on January sfch to a letter written by John Jennings m viting him to visit America, that the precarious state of Mb health, and the imperative demands on his time just now, prevent him undertaking such a voyage. The Queen commanded Jan. 14 as the date for the production of Gounod's oratorio, "Mors et Vita," at the Royal Al bert.Hall, London, and will v go from Windsor to attend the performance. This will be Her Majesty's first appearance m public for many years. ( PauF Bert ''■■ has accepted the ".post of Resident Minister of France at Hue, the capital of Anam. „' ( '. ... •; „•:., p< .^ LouiS^KTosVuth is reported! fc6 be dangerously ill. , itA London cable tq ; ,#»e New York Herald, dated January^/ 10th, says that the Marchioness of Westmeath was arrested m the streets of London on Janu ury 6th for drunkenness. She was divorced, twenty -four years ago from the Marquis, and has led a disreputable lite ever since. Skatcbef, the well-known NibiKst, andfirst editor of the Nihilist paper The Toosin, died on January Bth at the St. , Anne Asylum, near Pans. Sit William Hart Dyke will probably be made Governor ot Madras. ' A London despatch of January 16th says that the delegates sent to China by the German and other banks have gone . to negotiate a loan. Their business is to study the country and get a railway concession. They are prepared, however, to form a syndicate with ; English or American and even French competitors. The Franco-Chinese treaty does hot give France' any monopoly m railway construction.. . ;. On January 13th the State Department '' at Washington received official informatipx from U.S. .Consul , Greenebauni. at Apia, Samoa, of the seizure of the Samoan islands by the Gorman Government. •- Cable despatches from London, dated January 10th, say that the interest of the English m Home Rule has shown a marked decline during the v week. The leaders of both parties maintain, complete jrilence. % The Loyalist Union held a meeting m j Dublin on the 9th, and. resolved. to establish brarieliWf of the Union throughout Ireland, i. Li j ' ts . j . . i* -, f >_ '* . , The Belfast Presbytery has issued a manifesto declaring that the adoption of Home Bule at any time impolitic, would now be disastrous and criminal. The Daily News of January 13th says there' are rumours that the Government meditate acoup/W tat m Ireland, and Chat among the changes contemplated is the appointment op Gene^lS Viscount While* Icy to be the commander of the forces the'rei ' ... ..' , .„■,,....;,..• . • ■.;.. * The Metb-ojlist; jol&gVi of '^reland at, their recent meeting m Dublin adopted a resolution stating that any legislation tending to dissolve the Union will prejudice the moral material interestsof the country., Th!e Methodi»t Press- of/ England has also adopted a. hostile attitude toward the Home Rule movement. i- ., The Duke of Devonshire, Lord Har- - tington's father, owning., 60,000 acres . m Ireland, has accepted the ' presidency of the* lrish defence fund. ' :. Tremendous treshets have taken place m the Balkans^ The Maritza, a large river -m Roumalia, overflowed its banks m January, and nine villages were swept away, with much loss of life. j According! to a x despatch from London, 1 dated. January 3nJ,*a number of MaKdist fanatics penetrated to British lines m Suakim and attacked the British soldiers m the streets of that* town. The. fighting, was furious, 'and \a. great pianyi ofs; the. English troops were killed aLd wounded. The Radicals are looking: for the eventual passing of Mr Gladstone's Irish Bill m the House, and >its rejection by the Lords, m %pp'eail;.tQ' ;tpe ! c6untry ; . by' 1 Mt Gladstone on the basis of .universal suffrage, abolition of the House of Lords, and an Irish, Parliament, aided by the Nationalists m Great Britain and Ire land/ . The Liberal League of -America have had a hot quarrel on hand with Robert : Tngersoll, the infidel lecturer, and his agent. They are charged with pocketing the funds intended for the benefit of the League. . .. ! Some fears are .expressed for the safety ' of the British baiq^e Aspbetu,-out 117 days from Adelaide,; and bound for Portland. „ , , . „, '.