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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 22, 7 August 1890, Page 2

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright (*'EH UNITED IMtK»B ASSOCIATION.) LispoN, August 4. In the Chamber of Deputies the Minis ter of Justice announced that the ordinary tribuual would adjudicate m connection with the seizure of a British steamer at Mozambique. Mecca. Augu-t 5 The death rate from cholera has increased to 500 daily. Zanzibar, August 5. At a mass meeting of Arabs the slavery decree recently issued by the Sultan was accepted. A few only of the Arabs created a small disturbance when the decree abolishing slavery was promulgated. N icw York, August 5. Twenty-four British sailors belonging to the American squadron deserted at Newport. They were pu sued and resisted and finally the men were overpowered one being shot and another sabred. Buenos Aybek, August 5. The President's principal supporters have quarrelled with him for refusing to fulfil his promise to resign after order was restored. Dr Column's house is guarded lest an attempt should be made to surprise him. Capetown, Aueust 5, The independence of Swaziland has been guaranteed, but the Transvaal will be allowed to construct a railway through the country and the neighbouring district of Amatongal and to Kosi. The Transvaal Government has promised to favour the British South African Company. Beblin, August 5. It is asserted that documents reveal that Bismarck expended a million marks in one fortnight for the purposes of bribing " the reptile press." Vienna, August 5. Three crowded railway carriages were thrown into a river in the Tyrol and Beveral passengers were drowned.