LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 98, 16 February 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

*. J3y Electric Telegraph. — Copyrighi [PKR UNITJ6D l'RKf.* ASSOCIATION] London, February 14. General Booth said the welcome he hac received in Australia was the greatest ye' bestowed on any Christian minister. Lord R. Churchill's constituents hold t meeting to consider whether they shouk re-elect him, objection being taken to hi; fickleness and versatility. Mr Chamberlain, in his attack on M; Gladstone, demanded that the Liberal should unfold their Home Rule scheme and denounced the attempt to embarrass the Government in their relations witl Egypt. The Daily Chronicle, comment ing on the speech, says it has not beei equalled since the days of Disraeli. Washington, February 14. The Committee of Ways and Means o Congress is in favour of admitting woo free. There is immense excitement on th< New York Stock Exchange over the pro posed railway amalgamation. Shares it the Pennsylvania Beading line rose £9 About a million and a half shares changec hands in New York alone. Heavy failures in the cotton trade ar< expected in the United States, Paris, February 15. M. de Lesseps is suffering from i severe attack of influenza. bYDNBY, February 15. The Goreroment hare sold 100 feel frontage of New-street, in front of the Post Office, for £126,000. Other allot, ments were withdrawn, as the reserve of £1750 per foot was not reached. Obituary — Dr Willielra Junker, African traveller, and naturalist. Isolated cases of foot and mouth disease continue to be reported in England.