ENGLAND.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8331, 6 April 1889, Page 2

ENGLAND.

(Keceived April 5, 1 p.m.) London, April 4. The brokers have taken the balance of the Adelaide loan at par, paying in addition a small amount for interest. The Btock is quoted at 1J premium. (Uoceived Aprils, 10p.m.) Mr Tibbs, of Auckland, won the treasurer's exhibition in anatomy aud physiology at the Westminster Hospital. The prices of frozen mutton and beef remain unchanged. At the wool sales to-day prices were firm at last quotations. Information lias been received that some Arab traders who have arrived at Stanley Falls declare that towards the end of Febrnary they saw Mr H. M. Stanley and Emm Bey marching in the direction of Zanzibar, followed by thousands of men, women, and children, who were carrying with them 6000 tusks of ivory, A.t the Elswick works an experiment has been made with the new process of plating iron with copper which has recently been patented in England byCapt. L. Prout, the well-known mining manager and speculator of South Australia. The experiment was successful, but it is doubted whether the process is applicable to large plates. The Earl of Morley has been appointed Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords. The Budget will be introduced in the Houseof Commons on the 15th instant, and on the following day Parliament will bo adjourned until the 25tb instant for the Easter holidays. The Right Hon. H. C. K. Childers has moved an amendment objecting to provide money for the naval programme except by annual vote. (Received April 6, 1.25 a.m.) April 5. In his address before the Parnell Commission to-day Sir Charles Kussell justified a system of boycotting, with limits, and gave as an instance the Australian colonies boycotting Government officials until the deporting of convicts .censed He promised to produce the books of the National League. In the House of Commons to-day Mr .Childeis' amendment objecting to providing funds for the naval programme ex. cept by annual vote was under discussion, and was ultimately negatived by a majority of 33. The resolution embodying the naval propolis of the Government wus carried by a majority of 87. ; The appeal of Mr D. Killbride, member .for Kerry South, who was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on the charge of inciting to breaches of the Crimes Act, ;has been dismissed. : Obituary— The Marquis of Ely. ,' At a meeting of shareholders in the Bank of . Australasia it was stated that the bank did not expect to experience, •any difficulty arising out <?f advances on I land in Melbourne. j