LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 140, 23 May 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (I'EK UNITKI) PIMSSS ASSOCIATION.) London, May 21. It is considered possible that the in troduction of Kanaka labour into Queensland will result in an increased vote for the Western Mail Service. Admiral Erskine, who for n time was i on the colonial station, in a letter to one of the leading dailies, observes with scrrow and dismay the attitude that has been adopted by the Imperial Government in the matter. He considers that even under the most stringent regulations, wrongs, and abuses of the traffic will occur, leading invariably to reprisals and bloodshed. Pabis, May 21. Mr Dencon, the American who shot dead M. Abielle, the French attache at Nice, whom he found in his wife's bedroom, has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment The audience in Court received the sentence with » general tone of dissatisfaction, and the judge and jury were hissed. Mozambique, May 21. The hurricane which swept over Mauritius was exceptionally violent, anl 24 churches, chapels, or cottages were blown down, while many of the sugar mills were wrecked. It is reported tiuit 115 lives were lost in the storm. The least of those mjured is stated to be 1000, and hundreds have been rendered homeless. Twenty*nine steamers have been wrecked along the Mauritius Coast. The Mayor of London has opened a subscription list in aid of the distressed. New Yobk, May 21. The rebels in Venezuela made a successful attack on the City of Lastallas, but at Cnidad they were repulsed by the Government troops. In Central States exceptionally heavy rain has fallen, uad severe floods are experienced. lovra, Illinois, Nebraska and Missouri have suffered most, while Minnesota and Kansas have been partly inundated. Much misery has resulted, and in Chicago, business is paralysed, The present estimate ot the damage is many millions of dollars.