LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 45, 4 October 1887, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

LATEST NEWS OF STANLEY, A WIDOWS MITE. A SUSPICIOUS SPEECH. By Electric Telegraph.— Copynght. [BETTERS* TELEGRAMS.] London. October 3. Advices from the West Coast of Africa bring news of Mr H. M. * tanley up to the 25th July, on which date all was well, and his party was advancing at the rate of twelve miles daily. The man who shot the French gamekeeper will probably be courtmartialled, and Germany will pay the widow 25,000 francs.

A thousand unemployed sugar refiners marched in a procession to Hjde Park to-day, and speeches were made condemning the system of the sugar bounties.

M. Perrons speaking at a banquet at Nice, said that " possibly France might find herself in the position of having to repel an attack by Italy." Jt is understood that in return for. his offers of assistance to the Govern* | meht of India in the event of war with Russia, the Nizam of Hyderabad expects the retrocession of Berar. An Abysinian force is. advancing to attack Massowah before the Italian troopg ,arrive.-. > Severe fighting has taken place in the Sao-lop Isjanat^between the natives and the Spanish troops, the latter coming off victorious. It is officially announced that the War Office is willing to allow general officers to inspect Australian forces every two years. Four Scotch whiskey firms have called meetings of their creditors. Other firms are expected to follow. Forty million gallons of whiskey are bonded in Scotland.

The beetroot crop mi France and Germany is smaller than usual, but the yield will be immaterially reduced, owing to a larger area being under cultivation.

Calcutta, October 2.

The Nizam; of Hyderabad, . in his letter to his Excellency the Viceroy, offering a contribution of £200,000 for two years toward., the frontier Defence Fund, expresses himself as of opinion that tibe action of Russia has for centuries been inimical to the Moslem faith both in Europe and. Asia. . JRomk, October 2.

The visit of Signor Crispi, the Italian Premier, to Prince Bismarck, at Freidrichsruhe, is regarded as foreshadowing the entrance of the Italian Government into the Austro-German alliance.