I LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, 24 November 1891, Page 2

I LATE TELEGRAMS.

.©. — By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (PKE PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, November 21. * Bishop Selwyn is about on crutches, and is making slow recovery. November 22. • Grant, a Dane, has been found black- • mailing various titled ladies in England ' by threatening to murder them. Sentence was deferred. i The Eey. Dr Clutterbuck was sentenced J at Bath to four years' penal servitude for f obtaining £16,000 by false pretences. The marriage of Sir S. Wilson's son with Lady Churchill, daughter of the ■ former Dnke of Marlborough, took place t yesterday. The ceremony, which was of ■ a brilliant character, was attended by 1 H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and many i other society notables. The Prince of ■ Wales presented the bride with a silver ■ brooch. ? The fear of a protective tariff being adopted in New South Wales is causing a I glut of shipping to that Colony. Various - lines of steamers are being largely sup--5 ported. 5 Paris, November 21. The relations between the French and the Malagasy are strained, and a rupture ■ is feared. 5 Troops are preventing the French i miners from interfering with free la- » bourers, aud conflicts are of frequent oc« r currence." E Sydnet, November 23. The Labour Protection Bill has been introduced, It makes it unlawful for any i person or company to introduce alien labour, and the master of any ship cont veying such labourers is liable to a fine . of £50 or six months' imprisonment. Skilled foreign workmen may, however, be engaged for a new industry not es- ) tablished in the colony at the time of i their entry. ; St. Petehsbitbg, November 21. A brigand entered a train near Mos j cow, killed the postman, and stole £5000. f Persecutions of Jews haye ceased, and : immigration into Eussia is resuming its normal proportions. In order to recoxip the farmers for losses caused by the prohibition of the export of wheat and rye, the Government will grant them sixty million roubles out of cash reserves, which now amount to two hundred and twenty millions. Calcutta, November 21. The Indian pilot brig Coleroon has been lost with a crew of five Europeans • and 39 natiyes. New York, November 22. s A despatch to the World says it is in* tended to sue Balmaceda's Cabinet and Congress individually for the sum of nine : millions, the raising of which was ille- • gaily authorised by them. Edison has invented an electric loco motive -wliicL, he claims, will develop one horse-power with one or.two pounds of inferior coal, and can be safely worked up to a speed of 100 miles per hour.