LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 82, 9 January 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

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By Electric Te'egraph.— Copyright |PKR UNITED TIIKSS ASSOCIATION) (Received January 9, 10.40 a.m.) Tahis, January 8. The French Chamber of Deputies has finally passed the new tariff Bill by 394 to 114. It comes into operation next month. I Beblin, January 8. The master printers refuse to re-employ printers who went on strike until the strike has ended everywhere. Professor PffiefPer has injected baccilus into monkeys and rabbits thus causing influenza. Dr Koch confirms the discovory of influenza baccilus. Rome, January 8. The Italian delegates to the sanitary conference in Venice will most likely second! bhe sanitary proposals put forth by the British representatives. '; Singapore, January 8. One hundred and fifty Sikhs and ninety friendly Malays are advancing to suppress the rising in Pohang. : Tangiers, January 8. The British Minister has left here for Gibraltar in the H.M.S Goshawk. Washington, January 8. ' . President Harrison has warned all nations that the United States will levy • duties after March 15th on sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides* imported from countries taxing American products. It is expected that the Chicago exhibition will be ready to receive exhibits in October next. •.."•■ : Congress is be asked to vote a sum of five million dollars for the Exhibition. Fiye more Alabama, outlaws including two women have been lynched. Cairo, January 8. In connection with the death of the Khedive, it is mentioned that seven day's suffering from influenza affected his lungs and heart. He was for some considerable time unconscious and his illness was kept secret. The funeral will take place in Cairo to-day. Prince Abbas Bey, heir apparent, has been summoned from Vienna. .No regency has yet been appointed. The Egyptkus scarcely realising that the Khedive is dead. , . London, January 8. The Times, referring' to the Khedive's death, states it completely changes the condition of the Egyptian problem and strengthens the necessity of England remaining there. The Daily News considers the death a serious blow to England. In Egypt the La Siecle, a French Journal, urges the combination of powers to preyent Prince Abbas being placed under the Tutelage of the British. Influenza is severe in Liyerpool and Essex. Six thousand cases are reported at Guernsey, and 25,000 in Venice. The grenadier and Coldstream guards and London postmen are suffering from the disease. Three persons have been arrested in Warsaw and one in London, on a charge of making bombs for anarchical purposes. It is rumoured that General Booth has nominated his eldest daughter to succeed him as Chief of the Salyation Army. Wellington, This Day. The Central Board of Health declares it has no power to order the barque Iverarie from Napier to quarantine iv Wellington, Masterton, This Day. Mr Wayland's flaxmill on the Waipoira nyer was destroyed by fire yesterday. ' Auckland, January 8. ; The New Zealand Chess Congress ended to-day. T. Sedburg, of Dunedin, won the Chess Championship of New Zealand, with A. Littlejohn and F. H. Bake well, both of the Wellington Chess Club, second and third respectively.