THE LATEST.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 115, 26 March 1892, Page 2

THE LATEST.

(Received March 25, 10 45 a.m.) London, March 25. . The Parnell-Wood will case, in which Lieut.-General Sir E. Wood and another member of the family opposed will of Mrs Wood, widow of Alderman Wood, of London, under which the bulk of the property was left to Mrs O'Shea (Mrs Parnell), has been satisfactorily arranged. At a great meeting of the Miners' Federation and Coal Porters' Union a resolution was carried urging the working men, at the general election, only to yote for candidates who expressed themselves in favor of the Eight Hours Bill. The hearing of the action and claim for damages for wrongful imprisonment in the Spinninghouse, which Daisy Hopkins brought against Mr D. Wallis, proctor of Cans College, Cambridge, is proceeding. Gold to the value of a million has been withdrawn from the Bank of England for export to Eussia. The members of the House of Commons, who possess special knowledge of the United States, display uneasiness at the attitude adopted by the Senate and of President Harrison, as they fear that the Uuited States Government will Bend warships to sweep Canadian sealers off the Behring Sea. Paris, March 52. Three of a batch of anarchist poisoners arrested yesterday, are charged with conspiracy to poison wholesale the members of one of the principal clubs in Paris. A cipher letter found in the possession of one of the accused disclosed the plot. Brisbane, This Day. Several cases of cannibalism have been reported among the blacks in the Cairns district, about 900 miles N.W. of here. Five boys were recently killed and eaten.

Wellington, This Day. The Railway Commissioners have received a petition from 1600 Eailway employes requesting them to urge the Government to introduce the Bill prepared by the Commissioners for insurance and sick aid.