LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 133, 7 May 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

[united press association. ! London, May 6. The cotton strike hns been settled by compromise, and the bands resume work on Monday. The Lancet throws doubts upon the supposed poisoning or Oruie. ! Mr. Molloy, MP- for Birr, in the i course of an interview with the editor of the L'all Mull Gazette, said the Eandt at Johannesberg was the biggest and most permanent goldfield in the world. The output of the various mines for March was 92.0000z. City financiers resent the statement attributed to Mr Ballance, that it is necessary to wean New Zealand from servile dependence on the London money market. Romk, May 6. Rudini, the Premier, has been defeated on ii vote of want of confidence, arising out of dissatisfaction with the Government's financial proposals. The King will accept his resignation, and Saraca will probably become Premier. St. Petersburg, May 6. A fierce conflict has taken place on the Polish frontier owing to Russian gen Jarmes preTeuting a large body of cteasants from leaving the country. Many were wounded. Pabis, May 6. A case containing one million francs (£40,000) has been stolen from the parcels department of the Eastern Railway Company, Washington', May 6. Congress has re-enacted the Chinese Exclusion Bill, adding enforced registration and a penalty, for unlawfully enter* in-; the States, of a s ear in prison, at the end of which time they are to be sent back to China. Adelaide, May 6. A proclamation has been issued prohibiting the importation of New Zealand sheepskins for two years, owing to the Colony not being declared free from sea b . Melbourne, May 6. The President of the Chamber of Commerce, in his annual report, stated that in the middle of March over twenty institutions suspended, with capital exceeding L 4.000.000, which was locked up, while public deposits to the amount of LI 1,000,000 were rendered unavailable. The whole trouble was due Jto the un* !;e:iliby aud unprecedented expansion of creilit. (Received May 7, 10.40 a.m.) London, May 6In tho House of Lords Lord Knutsford said the Imperial Government would support any precaution however stringent that Sir .Samuel Griffith thought necessary to ensure the proper engagement and employment of Kanakas. In the House of Commons, Baron De ■Worms replied in a similar straiu. Mr Samuel Smith, M. P., for Flintshire, who renews the question in tho House, estimates Lord Kimberley advised the employment of coolies. Tho Marquis of Salisbury and the Hon A. J, Balfour have agreed to receive a deputation from tho Trades Council on the questiou of legalising the eight hours system. The Daily Telegraph considers that the present demand per Australian securities will probably be followed by new loans.