THE LATEST.

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

THE LATEST.

(Received December 15, 10.20 a.m.) St. Petebsbtjeg, December 14. Influenza is raging in this city, bringing typhoid fever and madness in its wake. The press state the police are arresting . people of all classes, on suspicion of a general conspiracy. Lisbon, December 14. The Portuguese press is angry at the Brazilian Legation absenting themselves from Dom Pedro's funeral in the Pantheon, though the King of Portugal was present. Paris, December 14. The Paris printers are sending aid to the Berlin printers. Ottawa, December 14. The Canadian Government urges England to mediate in the dispute between Canada and New Foundland. The Duke of Devonshire is sinking. , Cairo, December 14. An Austrian monk and two nuns, who have been held prisoners by the Mahdi since the defeat of Hicks Pasha in 1883, have escaped from Khartoum, and arrived at Noaoasko, on the mile. Calcutta, December 14. . Desultory fighting is reported at Gilgitl It is feared the snow will block the passes and isolate the expedition, whose object is to forestall the Russians in Pamir. London, December 14. Kaikoura arrived at Plymouth to-day from New Zealand, all well. The employees of thirteen more firms have joined Waterlow and Sons, bookbinders on strike. Abetter tone is evinced in colonial stocks, New Zealand, 3£ per cent have advanced 10s. A warrant has been issued by Hurlbert against Miss Evelyne, plaintiff in the recent action for breach of promise, on the ground of perjury. Further storms are raging all over England, and floods are universal in many places, and buildings were unroofed. The Enterkm, bound to Brisbane, with a cargo of iron, was wrecked off Eamsgate on Saturday night. An apprentice, who was lashed to the rigging, was the only one rescued, all on board, thirty in number, being drowned.