LONDON.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 125, 16 March 1881, Page 3

LONDON.

-YY;- •"■-..- ---; ;:.■■;■:•:*'-■ SATURDAY. ■ At the wool sale, to-day, 13,700 bales were offered. There r was again a good demand;.- rnryr V" y Tn the House o^omrapns, to-day the Irish Arms Bill was read athird time aud paasetLjind transmitted to the -Hous^of Lords for consideration. - * Itis announced that England pays five million sterling to the Indian Government as its share of the cost of the last Afghan war. " --y--Thi House of Lords Has dismissed the appeal made^rj_' behalf of" the convict, Thomas .Castro, alias Arthur Qrton, against the judgment of 'the Court of appeal m June, last, m discharging the writ of error which it was sought to prove against the udeeisibn^ '"of .''"-.ine Court of Queen's Bench m 1874 m awarding two successive sentences of penal servitude on the two coui^pf the indictment for peijuiy. yZgxyy .-y -;\. ■:■■--■-■ . The factof an. armistice ..having been agreed to with the Boers m the Trans-. takl is neejvingimueh adverse criticism L m the Press and m political and military " circles, -y the Y impression having got abroad tnajt Ihe armistice was sought by I tho British", A complete disavowal of the slatemehFthat Evelyn Wood had asked that hostilities should besuSpended, 'hp however, been commmrcated to tbe . Press ]hy Mr Gladstone, who moreover states thj|t, although no definite information is to hand as to the exact circumstances which led to the armistice, he believes the proposal for the same originated with Presjdoi t.Bcand of thtFree State, who-has for same time beeV using- every ei^avbr to bring ab^ut peace. TbVDiv.^ has dißallpw|dMr ; Bradlaugh"s demurrer to the plaintiffs reply to his pie* m the action, Bradlaugh, to recover penalties of Jg -soo. each day .Won* the dei fendarit fi»r rittinjg and ''voting In, 'the' House of Commons without having first taken thf oath prescribed by the Act of 1866 V * '—'■•'• -■■'■--y---i-