THE LATEST.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 109, 12 March 1892, Page 2

THE LATEST.

(Received, March 12, 10.35 a.m.) Berlin, March 11. The area of the distress in Germany is increasing. Pabis, March 11. The Chamber of Deputies has granted women workers power to vote upon the appointment of Boards of Arbitration, but declines to permit them to become members of such board. Constantinople, March 11. A man has been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of Vulcovitch, the Bulgarian agent. Madrid, March 11. The Anarchists of Cadiz claim the acquittal of the second batch tried at Xeres was due to a fear of the mob. Serious rioting took place during the trial, and many people were wounded by the police. Ottawa, March 11. Mercier declares the public are ungrateful and unjust. Canada endorses Lord Salisbury's attitude with regard to {the Behring Sea dispute, and has also declined the request of the United States to introduce a Chinese Exclusion Bill. London, March 11. G. W. Hastings, M.P. for East Worcestershire, convigted of fraud as a trustee was sentenced to five years. Morland, the blackmail tutor, was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. Mr Pierson will officiate at the Tabernacle till June. Zanzibar, March 11. The correspondent of the Standard says it is reported the natives inflicted a severe defeat on the British East African Company's Sepoys under the Command of under the command of Roger at Witu, killing many of their number and capturing a Maxim gun. The Sepoys were greatly out-numbered. Sydney, This Day. The observatory has secured an excel- J lent photograph of Swift's comet now visible. Brisbane, This Day. Mr Wragge, Government meteoroligist, advises tha shipping to prepare for energetic barometeric disturbances in lattitude 37, longitude 136, east of the South Coast of New Zealand.