LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 93, 4 February 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Te'egraph.— Copyright |PKR UNITSD PBIiSS ASSOCIATION | Loxdon, February 2. Lord Salisbury addressed a large meeting at Exeter Hall last night, the attendance being estimated at upwards of 10,000. Beferring to Egj-ptian affairs, he said the new Khedive, AbbA3 Bey, would follow the policy of bis late father, and on the land question he declared that the Government were very anxious to multiply the number of small holdings. Ireland was still the burning question of the day, and he warned the people of England that if a seperate Parliament were set up in Dublin it would produce a result which would compel the whole world to declare that England was in a state of senile decay. He appealed to the country to avert this crowning calamity and disgrace. Throughout his address Lord Salisbury made no reference to the dissolution of Parliament before the date on which it will expire by the effluxion of time. Further assistance has been sent to the stranded warship Victoria from Malta, Constantinople, and Patras. The-Dublm Express advises the rejection of tbe scheme of local government offered by the Tories. The Independent urges the re union of the Irish party. Perry, the property agent in County Clare, who was shot by three atmed men, has died of his wounds. At the annual meeting of the share* holders of the Union Bank of Australia, the Chairman said they had suffered less harm by the depression than any of the banks in the coloniei. The profits were less by L 15.000. but this was a small amount, considering the acuteness of the crisis in Australia. The total amount of profits for the year was L 106.000. The Bristol bootmakers' strike has been referred to arbitration. February 3. In his speech at Exeter Hall, Lord Salisbury said that the approaching general election would only be tbe beginning of a protracted struggle. If England lacked tbe nerve and manliness to control Ireland, then one by one the flowers would be plucked from the diadem of the Empire till Groat Britian stood alone, Zanzibar, February 1, Zanzibar was declared a free pork, in the presence of 5000 merchants of all nations. The greatest enthusiasm was shown.