LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 6, 14 July 1891, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

I PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. ) Beceived, July 14, 10.20 a.m. Lonion. July 13. The delegates to the Congregational Conference have arrived. The Bey. L. D. Bevau, of Melbourne, preached in the City Temple yesterday. The Liberation Society gave a breakfast, at which two hundred of the delegates were present and in the course of an address the Bey. Mr Bevan testified to the great advantages the various religious bodies enjoyed under the voluntary system existing in the Australian Colonies. Great Britain, he said, was years behind the colonies it the matter of Education. He advocated free, compulsory, and secular education, and advised the study of the Bible in schools for the sake of the literary merits of the book. The Bey. Thomas Bosebury, another of the Australian delegates, maintained that- every sect had an equal right to the English Church property, and he was amazed that Westminster Abbey was allowed to remain in the hands of a single sect. . The Bey. Spurgeon is less delirious. Letters and cablegrams expressing sympathy continue to he received by his family from America, India, and the Continent. Several English Bishops and the public exhibit deep concern at the rev gen tleman's serious condition. An embankment containing ten millon tons of masonry and timber has broken down and blocked the Manchester Ship Canal. Calcutta, July 13. Waickairohpu, the last of leading Manipur rebels, has been captured. Fresh evidence has been procured which proves that Jubray wrote a letter ordering the massacre of the British. St. Petersburg, July 13. The voluntary exodus of several rich Jewish bankers and merchants, is seriously disturbing trade in Bussia and causing a re-action against the anti-Jew ish edicts of the Czar. There is no proposal of Bussia export* ing corn, as she will require the yield for home consumption. Constantinople. July 13: Turkey refuses to admit Bussian Jews into Palestine except as pilgrims. Pabis, July 13. The employees of the Orleans railway, who are on strike demanding a reduction in the hours, assert that unless their demands are conceded by Tuesday the hands on the five great railways in France will strike on Wednesday. Berlin, July 13. The doctors who have been, engaged in experiments with cancer injected cancel lymph into fifty pauper patients, but they allege with the latter's consent. Melbourne, This Day. Nearly two thousand of the residents of South Bichmond have been driven from their homes by the floods in that district. The whole of the streets are under water and a large number of houses in the lowlying portion, are completely submerged. Although the water is falling there are still many houses which are inundated to the extent of 10 or 15 feet. The state schools, churches, and various public halls, have been placed at the disposal of those rendered homeless. So great was the excitement in town yesterday that business was almost entirely suspended. A schooner, name unknown, was seen to disappear off Sorrento, Port Phillip Bay. A fireman belonging to a dredge, in attempting to come ashore in a dingy was drowned. Thousands of people witnessed the accident but were powerless to help the unfortunate man. Tugs have gone to the assistance of the Calcutta steamer Buucoora, which is ashore near Cape Otway. Port Darwin, This Day. . The first of the Austalian Auxiliary squadron (H.M.S. Tauranga) arrived here yesterday. _____________