LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 67, 3 December 1891, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

♦ By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (per pbess association.) London. December 1. Mr Mathers, an Adelaide resident, states that at an interview with Mr Gladstone nt Havrnrdcn the latter expressed the fear that if the present spirit continued Australian federation would simply be the prelnde to separation- He hoped every effort would bo made to maintain the uoity of the Empire. Mr Armstrong's application for acorn* mission to exaraino witnesses in Vienna in connection with the divorce case was adjourned because the answers of respondent and co-respondent to the allegations he made were not filed. The. Due d Orleans objects to English jurisdiction in the case, and urges that he has no legal domicile. The divorce suit brought by the Countess of Russell against her husband is proceeding. She stated be often shook her like a rat, and even went as far as to threaten to shoot her with a revolver. Respondent commenced to illu3o her soon after their marriage. In giving details of her husband's cruelty, the petitioner stated that he once compelled her la get out of bed, when she fainted and fell on the floor, and he then threw water over her, and heaped other indignities upon her. She then left her husband, saying that she would commit saicide if compelled to live with him.