LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 75, 22 December 1891, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

.By 44 lEJ^^icllTe'Bgrapli.— Copyright [PEIt^'UNITX!* PRKS.S ASSOCI"ATION 4 '| YALPABAI6O, PcccmberSl. The Chilian Government lias settled the claims made by the German and Swedish residents for compensation for losses sus tnined during the late revolution. Rio db Janbibo, December 21. The rebels in the Espentu Santo Province have deposed the vice-Governor, and surrp.aaded i :jtLe,(»pital. Ai ;. ; «r iM K a 5.« i Zanzibar, December 21. Zanzibar, will bo. declared^a .free port in February next. Pabis, December 20, In a conflict on the Tumsrati^fforitieY 160 Arabs were killed. J ;.] • London, .December 21. ! An old man, William Young, 74 years of age, who visited;,Pontefracfcto ; |ecure a legacy of £100,000 left by an Australian relative, met with an accident oil a railway platform, and was killed.-, '4 i „' Mr Geq. W.. BLastings, jtf^l^for "th^ Eastern Division of Woreesteri ijaas been arrested on a warrant charginghim with obtaining .£15,000^ by fraud i as.ltrustee -unde'rawill.;" ' " ' . '■; The. Times declares that tbe Emperor William's Jaith in Count voiivCaprivi, the Imperial .Chancellor,' has'jbeent amply justified, and says that Seldom' has a more, remarkable achierement; been seen than iiVph (Dnprir^g ;i su'ccei|sfjgii^torange« ment of th 6 commercial Vreatieij which has madeyGerniany,"srr.pnger.thanlever. i - The. new paper^started in Dublin^ utid_er the name 6£the lndepen* dent, demands absolute^self-goyernment for Ireland. jVt < v V \ i The Financial Times sajs that Auslra'- . lian banks are, feeing , conducted with marked prudence and 'success, and points out that no group of securities yielding the same return show such a clean re< : cord. ■'■'■"• ! i M ■ If kw Tobk, December;2Q. ; The Herald states jihattheAinerican naval authorities are> preparhig-to'trans-porfc an arziiy'of 15,000 men to Chili in case of necessity. " ;i ! • ! Washington, December, 20J .: The American navy is secretly "massing in the Sotith Pacific J ' : i " /. ■: S^PNBT, Decembet 21. [ Sir H. Earkes:thinks. tHatif tha^Gojverriment persist in their policy the'Opr position will be justified in forcing a dissolution, j ; ._. 1 Melboubnb; December 21. j The Colonial Treasurer hopes to be able to float" the~first instalments? the six million loan early next year. j