LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 41, 3 October 1891, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

( PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. ] Received October 3, 10.15 a.m. London, October 2. A great crowd assembled to-day to witness the departure of Lord Sheffield's cricket team for Australia, and (cheered them heartiiy. The National Liberal Federation has assembled at Newcastle. John Morley, M.P., delivered the opening address. He asserted if the House of Lords opposed the will of the country in respect to Home Eule, people would consider whether they could allow it to exist any longer. He advocated moderate payment for members of Parliament. The Orient Company's steamer, Orotava, sank a barge in the Thames and narrowly escaped coming into collision with the Arawa. Special prayers will bo offered in the synagogues of England on October 12, for the Bussian Jews. The Bothschild'u have given £10,000 to the fund for their relief. i Owing to the carpenters' strike, iron, concrete and asphalt are apparently replacing wood to the extent of at least forty per cent. Vienna, October 2. The bombs were exploded under the bridge long before the Emperor passed, and the incident has probably no more serious significance than an intention to mar the enthusiasm of his reception in Bohemia. The affair was clumsily managed, water pipes filled with nitro-glycer-ine having been placed under the bridge and exploded at intervals of a quarter of an hour. The district ia a hot bed of Anarchists. A popular ovation is being prepared for the Emperor on his return to Vienna, Paris, October 2. A clerk belonging to the Paris Bank was robbed of £12,000 pounds yesterday. Brussels, October 2. . Boulanger wrote a political testament the day before he committed suicide, in which he declared history would deal severely with those who proscribed him. His body is lying in state covered with wreaths, and attracts a large number of visitors, The comments of the German and Austrian press on Boulanger 's end are coached in a harsh strain. Washington, October 2. The New York Chamber of Commerce urges the repeal of the law compelling the Government to purchase four and half millions ounces of silver monthly. Ten thousand miners and railway men have struck at Pittsburg for an advance in wages. Tangiers, October 2. Order has been restored among the natives at Cape Junby, on the west coast of Africa. . The Moors attacked a Spanish fort in Morocco, but were repulsed after three hours fightingOttawa, September 2. The Judge who presided over the trial of O'Brien, the reporter, for libelling Prince George of Wales declared the evidence was untrue. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. Sentence was deferred.