LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 129, 23 April 1891, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

SOUTH AFRICAN TROUBLES. LOSS OF A CHILIAN WARSHIP. MURDERS AND SUICIDES IN NEW YORK. (per peess association.) Capetown. April 22 The Boer expedition includes 10,000 Cape Colonists, and represents the Africander band, wbich now distnvbs Rhodes' Imperial schemes. The expedition will cross the Limpopo on the 2:2 nd of June, and the Republic will bo rle clared on the following day. The Republic will be established on the basis of a treaty granted to the Boer farmers ten years ago. London", April 22 General Booth has been left a legacy of seventy thousand pounds by a widow. Obituary— Rev George Osborne, Wes^ leyan leader. A dissolution of Parliament m the autumn is assured. Mr W. H. Smith, in reply to a ques tion, stated that unless Mr DeCobian, M.P., returned with a month to answer the charge against him, he would move, for his expulsion from the House. Rom i.-, Apr:! 22. The Italian Government is expelling Anarchists from Italy with a view to preventing trouble on May Day. Washington, April 22 It ia probable that Mr J. G. Blame, Secretary of State, will be nomiuated for the Presidency. Received April 23, 10 30 a.m. Capetown, April 22. The Africander band is now said to be disposed to favor Mr Cecil Rhodes suggestion for averting a collision between the Boers expedition and the South Africa company. There is great excitement in the Cape owing to a report that the Marquis of Salisbury will only remonstrate with Portugal for its action in Mashona : land, and the Capetown Times hints that it would be adviseable to lower the British standard in South Africa. ' Valparaiso, April 22. It is reported that the Chilian warship Blanco Encalada while off Antofagasta, was struck by a torpedo and sunk. New York, April 23 On Monday no less than twenty niurLders and suicides were reported to the 2city r ipplice. - ■*■-..-.■*, B London . A pri 121 , '.The incident in regard to the Bret at Chelsea, is now looked upon las of'a very trivial nature. /■The Standard says it is untrue that Portugal is conniving at the Boers expedition to Mashonaland. The name of the widow who left General Booth a legacy of is Mrs Bell. Berlix, April 22. The warehouses on Sandther Quay. Hamburg, have been destroyed by fire. The losses exceed two million marks. Lisbon, April 22. ' Intelligence has been received of a serious rising at Bissao, a seaport in Senegambia, where six thousand natives attacked four hundred Portuguese native troops and defeated them. The" casual ties on the Portuguese side were four officers and seventy-one men killed and -twenty-two wounded. Reinforcements are to be sent from here to assist in quelling the rising. St. Johns, April 22. Men-of-war are preventing two hundred fishing crafts in Fortune Bay from sup- ! plying bait to the French fishermen. • ' Hobaet, Tins Day./ The report that .Sir E. C. N. Bradden, Agent-General, is returning to Tasmania, is not confirmed. .- MELBTjuß'ifjsVThis Day. India will exchange"?* press telegrams with Australia at the same rate which obtains with England. A committee of medical men have decided that Colston, who murdered Davis and his wife at Narbethony, if suffering from paralysis of the brain, and cannot be held accountable for the deed. Napier, April 22 For shooting quail out of season, a man was fined in the R. M. Court to day £10, and £3 10s costs. Wkliington, This Day. Captain Preece, of Napier, succeeds the late Mr Whitefbrd as R.M. at Kaiapoi. Mr Turnbull, of Nelson, goes to Napier, Judge Broad takes the latter's place and also acts as District Judge for Nelson. Notwithstanding the verdict of the Jury VI rs Heighton, wife of one of the yictims of the Shelly Bay explosion, has laid an in formation of manslaghier against Capt. Falconer. The case is set down forbear* ing on Tuesday. The same witnesses as at inquest have been subpoenaed'