LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 137, 17 May 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

-♦ By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright, (1»BM UNITED TRUSS ASSOCIATION.) London, May 16. The ngitation aznrost Gladslone, because of his rtfusal to recciye a deputation on the Kight Hours question, continues. Gladstone, commenting on the condition of Italian finances, stated that Pro j tection and militarism were alike enemies j of liberty. ( Mr Gladstone expects that Parliament will dissolve in June. ' ■ The Bishop of Rochester presented and supported a petition to Convocation praying that museums and picture galleries should be opened on Sunday. At a great gathering of the railway employes in Hyde Park, a resolution wis passed demanding shorter hours and better pay for men iv service throughout the United Kingdom. In the course of his remarks Burns urged that railway men should have a large representation in Parliament, and said the companies were treating (be men shamelessly in practising economy in fcheir respective services. He declared the length of hours the men had to work hnd been the cause of an enormous number of deaths and accidents, while thousands of men were only paid starvation rote wages, and actually had to exist on the tips thtj received. At the conclusion of the meeting L<»rd Salisbury, Mr Balfour, and Mr Gladstone were hissed. St Petbbsbubg, May 16. A plot has been discovered to dynamite a palace in Gatshina, which, was found to be undermined. Bi-RMN, May 16 As a result of the post mortem on Gressers' body, Gattchkoffsky, the quack who administered the medicine to him, has been arrested. . Pabis, May 16 Owing to the introduction oE a new tariff French exports have declined sixtytwo millions. Socialists are taking steps to form a Socialist colony in Paraguay, S.A., and they will ask the Chamber of Deputies to grant a subsidy to assist them. . ; Nbw York, May 16 A despatch from Caracas states that the Venezuelan rebels under Crespo haye captured Bolivar, and that many of the Government troops are joining the insur gents, Caibo, May 14 News has been received thafc the Dervish s have raided Suaddn, near Wady Haifa, killing 34 of the inhabitants. (Received May 17, 11.20 a.m.) St .Ferebsbubg. May 16. A commotion was occasioned in U-als-hina owing to the plot to dynamite the palnee. The authorities received warning from Paris that the attempt was to be made. The undermining of the palace extends for seyeral kilometers. London, Mny 16. Sir J. F. Garrick, Agent-General for Queensland, in a letter to the Times states the people of England may rest assured that the Colonial Government will fearlessly and rigidly enforce the revised rules regarding the employment of Kanaka labor and that new safe guards will render recruiting as free of evil as the importation of coolies. The Times, commenting on the letter, believes there is no possibility of repetition of the Hopeful black birding case, yet Queensland had incurred very grave responsibility and a statesman is bound to fulfil his promise as to safeguards against a repetition of the former abuses.