LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 38, 26 September 1891, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

CORRUPTION OF PUBLIC AFFAIR* IN CANADA. ; THE CHILIAN REVOLUTION. ANOTHER LEADER CAPTURED, DISPOSING LAND IN AMERICA, SERIOUS FLOODS. PANIC AT REVIVAL MEETING, ~'" RAILWAY COLLISION. CZAR AND HIS* SUBJECTS. ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN, [ PER TTNITZD PRESS ASSOCIATION. )- Received, September 26, 10.30 a.m. Ottawa, September 25.-% In a sculling race at New Westminister^ between O'Conner and Hanlan, the latter *4 was defeated, ' ■""" The House of Commons of the Dominion Parliament hae, by a majority of fifteen, adopted the report of the Committee enquiring into charges of corrupt tion levelled at Mr T. McGreevy, and- ■ Sir H. Langevin in which it was recommended that the former be expelled fromParliament, but in the latter V case they were unable to agree to his guilt. , ValpakaißO, September 25. The Junta's troops at Iquique havecaptured General Carrillo, one of Balmaceda's leaders, on board a British sshirp r where he had sought refuge. It, is proposed to raise the- cruiser Blanco Encalada,, which was sunk by a> torpedo fired by one of General Balmaceda's fleet, JNxw Yobk, September 25. Another portion of Oklahama Reserve,. . apart of the "Indian?' Territory,: situ- - ated between Texas, Kansas and Arkansas,, has been thrown open/ and sufficient land provided for 5000 people, but the reserve^ - I has been rushed by five times that ] number. A panic occurred at a revival meeting: at Jackson. The audience thought the Day of Judgment had come, and in the 1 rush for the doors of the building twenty negroes were badly injured and some killed. Two workmen's trains collided at Ze--liengple, in Pennsylvania ; t.en occupants; were killed and many injured. . v London, September 25. Dr Adler, Jewish Rabbi, has requested Mr Hall Came, the well-known author, to proceed to Russia and write a work describing- the sufferings of Jews there. Captain Sozier is instituting proceedings for divorce of his marriage with. Lady Blanche Ogilvie. Mr Howard Vincent, member of theEnglish House of Commons, who recently has been on a tour through Can> - ada, declares thai, those favouring annexation to the United States have nohold ia the Dominion, and that the ■ ma--jonty of meetings held throughout the-. colony were virtually unanimous in favor - of the principles adopted bj the Empire. Sir Baden Fowell, .one of the British Commissioners on the enquiry -into Behring Sea fishery question, has now discovered that there are hundreds of thousands of seals in Behring's and regardsthe American tales of extinction as overdrawn. China has appealed to the remainder of the Powers to suspend action until the result of efforts to restore order is seen. Beblin, September 25 * The Cologne Gazette states that a re- . taxation of the passport regulations will result in a moral pressure of the FrancoRussian entente cordiale. I'abis, September 25. Serious floods have occurred in ArdecheProvince and a number of liyes have been/ lost. Madrid, September 25. The military authorities have adopted the Manser rifle for the use of the army. . Bucharest, September 25. Carol 1, King ofßoumaiia, denies that he shortly intends abdicating the throne. Carmen S^lva, Queen of Roumania is improving; Constantinople, September 25. , Turkey has forbidden Bulgaria to issna coinage bearing a representation of ' Prince Ferdinand. St. Petebsbfbo, September 25. Owing to the death of the Grand . Duchess Paul, the Czar will proceed to Moscow. ThevCzar is stated to be ready to study the needs of his subjects, and to regulate his conduct accordingly. An unsuccessful' 1 attempt was made by the Anarchists to>. wreck an express train at Cracow in Poland. Sydney, This Day. The S. M. Herald says that the NewZealand Parliament has virtually done ' nothing during the session just closed, and remarks that such a contrast .between the promise and the performance has rarely been seen. Butter, local dairy made Bd, factory, lOd, New Zealand potatoes, £1 to £1/2/6.: . . ».