THE REVOLT IN VENEZUELA.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 138, 19 May 1892, Page 2

THE REVOLT IN VENEZUELA.

DI3ISTKR IN THE CASPIAN, COLOURED LABOUR IN QUEENSLAND. *■ %« Electric Telegraph. —Copjnglit. i (J'BII UNl'l'liD PIIKBS ASSOCIATION.) New York, .May 17. Kodil, tli3 Government General, was so incensed at the fall of Bolivar, thai he ordered the execution of six officers of the Government army. Tn consequence of this order the comrades of the con» demned men revolted, shooting Kodil and afterwards decapitating him. London, May 17. The shareholders of the Freeman's Journal and National Press met to discuss the irregularities in connection with the amalgamation of the two concerns A violent recrimination took place between Messrs Dillon and Healy, and the former denounced Archbishop Walsh for interfering in public affairs. May 18. The Irish loyalists are collecting £ 10,000 to enable them to fight the appitching general elections. The Tories ridicule the violent and continuous squabbling among the Irish Party, and point to the dispute over the control of the Dublin press as a sample of the state of affairs which would prevail if Ireland were granted Home Rule. The Morning Post says the general elections will take place at tlie end of June or early in July. The Chronicle, referring to clack labour in Queensland, holds that inden« tared labour is uot technically slavery, nnd that England cannot interfere in the matter It cannot • believe that if the proposed safegmrds are strictly enforced the traffic is certain to bring the common English name into shame. Mr S. Smith. M.P., has given notice that in consequence of Baron De Worms' evasive reply to his last question on black labour ia Queensland, he will raise a discussion on the whole question at the first opportunity. Professor Henry Drummond, in an interview with the Pall Mall Gazette, de cla red the Queensland natives were treated as veritable outcasts. Their lives wore freely taken in certain districts on the smallest provocation, and their unevances were far worse than those of im ported Kanakas. K'eyen million people have petitioned the management not to open the Chicago Inhibition on Sunda s, The signatures to the petition received in Ohio and Michigan exceed the number of the entire population. Rio de Janikbo, May 1". The s.s. Ruuhine sailed to»day for Plymouth. Her cargo of frozen meat was reported to be in good condition. St JfEBEBSBUBft, May 17. The Russian steamer Wolyon ha foundered in the Casjiian Sea, and 250 prisons were drowned. Owing to the famine the Czar has ordered retrenchment to be made in all branches of the public service, and the military movements are to be much curtailed for the purpose of reducing expenditure.