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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 144, 28 May 1891, Page 2

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright fPEIt UNITKD PKKSS ASSOCIATION.) London, May 25... Mr. Parnell was received with ('nihilsinsm at Belfast In the course "of hi" speech lie declared Lord Salisbury's Hom c Rul»3 Svhemo was preferable to Mr Glad" stone's, and urfjed Ii eland to preserve it* independence and not surrender a single weapon until they knew what treatment would be meted out by the English Par« linment. In the House of Commons, Mr W. HSmith has given notice that on Thursday he will move that Mr De Cobain, M.P. for. Belfast, against whom charges of a serious miture,are preferred, be expelled from the House. It has been discovered that General Booth has been speculating, and. has lost the sum of £2000 owing to the bankruptcy of a- s;qckbr.;ker. The militury tournament has begun. The authorities are making much oFthi- , Victorian mounted rifle representatives, and the press is also very favourably dis--1 posed towards them, " The Governor jf Mozambique declares th.'it the Portuguese were attacked by the Company's troops in the neighbourhood of Massikesse. The fighting lasted several hours, and several men were killed on either side. . Another account wbich comes from Delagoa Bay . states that the Portuguese had arrived within twenty yards of Fort Salisbury, when the British fired and killed seven, wounding twenty more. The lock out of carpenters in London has begun. Madame Melba sings at a State concert in London on 24th June. May 26. In the divorce case O'Shea versus O'Shea and Parnell, the decree nisi was made absolute. The account of the collision between the Portuguese and English' m South Africa received so far are obscure. The Times believes that the truth is that the Portuguese attacked tbe com* p-my's police at Mutassa's kraal, where they were repulsed, .and that they then retreated down the Pungwe, where they met Johnston's pioneers on their way up The Portuguese.report seventeen killed A Manchester' "syndicate is forming a company to "erect dairy factories in New Zealand. ' * St. Petersburg; May 25. Since the Czar deprived the Grand Duke Michel of all military! rank held by him in the Russian aruiy, owing to his, secret marriage with tbe daughter ,of the Duke of Nassau, .there has been- a growing disaffection amongst tho Guards, and this has now devoloped to such an extent that 46 of the officers have, by orders of the Czar, been placed under arrest. Washington, May 26. . The friends of Mr Blame, Secretary of State, consider that his days of political activity ara over. - v " ' Paris, May 25. The omnibu3.men hnve gone out on -.strike.' and have smashed omnibuses .driven by blacklegs. The omnibus strike has paralysed traffic in Paris. Buenos Atres, May 25. A serious revolution has broken out at Cordoba, the inland capital of the Argentine State. No details are to hand, as the insurgents have cut the wires. During the revolt there were eleven hours of fighting, twenty-Aye persons being killed.. Peace has, however, again been restored. Received, May 28, 11 a.m. London, May 27. In the House of Commons to-day Mr Goschen announced that the Government could not accept the Bill passed by the Newfoundland Houses of Parliament enforcing modus vipendi with France since the operation of the . measure had been restructed to one year. The Newfoundland delegates who are at present in England, will be heard at the bar of the House of Commons on the subject on Thursday. , Lieutenant Grant, of the 2nd battalion of 46th Goorkhas, who distinguished himself during the. revolt in Manipur, has been promoted to the rank of Major, and Her Majesty the Queen has also conferred tie Victoria Cross on him. - There were 279 deaths from influenza in the city of London last week. | The London General Omnibus Com- > pany have raised the wages of all their | employees. "-. - i The Bank of England received two j millions of gold within the week. At Epsom to-day the Derby Stakes resulted as follows. — Commoo, 1 ; Gouverneur, 2 ; Matenburst, 3. Tenders* /or Queensland 3£ per cent. loan of two and a* half millions with minimum 94. were opened to-day. Only three-hundred thousand was tendered for and it has been decided that the balance of the loan remain open for a week at tbe minimum. None of the syndicates subscribed as they have not unloaded previous loans of the colony. St. Petersburg, May 27. It is proposed to forbid Russian Jews observing their. Sabbath day, and to compel them to work on Saturday and rest on Sundays. Baron Hirsch urges that the Jews be allowed 20 years in which to leaye Russia, a certain number emigrating annually and the remainder to receive protection in the interior. He believes that the Czar is ignorant of the barbarous treatment to which the Jews are subjected. Paris, May 27. Through the intervention of M. Constans, Minister of the Interior, the Oinnil bus Company has conoeded to the demand of employees for twelve hours per day, , and the strike has ended. Lisbon, May\ 27. It is admitted in Government 'circles that the Portuguese expedition was wrong in going beyond Massi Hesse. - It is rumoured that the British cruiser Magicienne has occupied Porta Veira in Mozambique.