LATE TELEGRAMS.
By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright [united phess association, i London', May 2. The Economist is hostile to Canada's offer of a preferential tariff. It considers it impossible that England should agree for the sake of seven millions' worth of imports, not to speak of the risk of reprisals. Australasian statistics prove tbat trade with those colonies is almost wholly British. The Statist violently attacks the Times' articles on the subject. Ten thousand Russian Poles arrived in England last year. Paris, May 1. The French press accuse Captain Lugard of hostility to Catholics in Uganda, and assert that he is keeping priests and nuns prisoners. THE LATEST. (Received May 3, 10.10 a.m.) London, May 2. Tho report that Mrs Osborne was released from gaol is confirmed. Mr Gladstone urges that a Lord Mayor's fund should be established iv aid of the workmen throwu out of work in consequence of the strike of the Durham miners. Four thousand hands employed in the buildiug trade in Cardiff have struck owing to tho masters refusing a demand for a higher rate of wages and reduced hours. News has been received that the British troops severely defeated the natives of Limbo near Sierra Leone. Captain Roberts was killed.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 131, 3 May 1892, Page 2
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