LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 72, 15 December 1891, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright London, December 14. Mr Gladstone has written n letter in which be declines to adopt a legal eight hours, and expresses doubts whether the principle will bo patiently borne. Part of the bucter by Ihe Pakeha and Tainui was not sold, being below the quali y suitable for the counter trade. Trengrouse and Co. say that only the finest quality will overcome the preju* [ dices of buyers. The brokers are reduc- • ing the prices by 2s and 3s. The Grocers' Gazette stales that all prices will pro« I bably rise. Election riots have taken plaice at i Wexford, during which Mr M. Davitt • was severely wounded in the head. ; S.e declares his intention of contesting the B eat in opposition to Mr John Redmond. > If ew Toek, December 14. i A riot has taken place in Denver, the ; chief commercial emporium o£ Colorado, owing to foreign miners being employed.' ' In the emeute seven persons were killed. A revolt has broken out in Honduras. Fourteen thousand^insurgents are re* ported to be attacking Ihe troops of General Velasquez, Governor of Cholu* i teco. Adelaide, December 14. A disastrous cyclone and terrific hail* i storm, resembling an American blizzard, devastated 10,000 acres of country near Tickera and Kadina, in the northern part i of Yorke's Peninsula, cutting a path i three miles in width. The damage is ; estimated at L 15.000 Hoko Kokg, December 14. The alleged object of the Chinese re» i volt is to restore the Ming Dynasty, i The decisiye defeat of tiie rebels has ! been confirmed, i Riode Janeiho, "December 13. Complete order has been restored here '■ and commercial confidence in (he Got- 1 i eminent is also restored. Ottawa, December 14. A Canadian Amateur Athletic Association has been established, and has dei cidod to welcome the New Zealand athletes in 1892.