THE LATEST.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 50, 14 October 1890, Page 2

THE LATEST.

London, October 11. Westgarth's circular denounces the premature disclosure of impending loans. Warrants have been issued against Messrs Dillon and O'Brien as absconders." They embarked on a cargo steamer at Waterford and caught the French mail steamer for the United States from Havre. Their sureties resist the estreatment of their bail on the ground that new charges have been introduced into the ease. The trial will proceed without the two escapees. October IS. The ship Wellington, bound to the colonies, came into collision with a steamer in the English Channel. Her bows were stove in, and she returned to London for repairs. It is reported here that the British gunboats have entered the Zambesi river without any opposition being offered by the Portuguese gunboats. Lady Boseberry is suffering from typhoid fever. Nkw York, October 11. The American famine fund is collapsing. The committee has despatched commissioners to Ireland to report. Madras, October 13. During the elections at Pondicherry, a maritime town, the capital of the French settlements in India, 85 miles S.S.W. of here, rioting broke out, and the yoting had to be suspended. • Numerous conflicts between the rioters and military are recorded. Bbussels, October 13 By an explosion at a pyrotechnic factory at Bruges, the capital of West Flanders, 13 miles east from Ostend, five persons were killed and 40 injured.