LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 141, 26 May 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

*■ ; By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright, : ' (PEIt I'NITKD PKKSS ASSOCIATION.) i London, May 25. '■ Anions the Birthday honours it is announced '.hat Prince George of Wales is ! create l Duke of York. Earl of Inverness, | and Baron of Killarney : The Hon .(. P. Abbott, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, ,ludge Manning, of New South Wales, and the Hon. P. A. Buckley, Colonel Secretary, New Zealand, are made K.CM.G.'s, Mr Gladstone insists that if (lie Irish accept Mr Balfour's Local Government Scheme (hey are unworthy of Home Rule. Louis Brenan, inventor cf the torpedo which bears his name, has been created C.B. The starving miners of Cleveland have appealed to the Queen for help. Captain Osborne has resigned his commission in the Army. Sir H. J. Selwin Ibbetson and Sir Evelyn Baring have been raised to tbe Peerage aud Mr J. C. Abbott, Pietnier of Canada, has been made. X.CM C The date of the general elections is fixed for the 14th June. Telegrams to hand from the West Coast of Africa state that the King of tbe Jebus killed 200 of his followers, including a large number of young girls, in order to propitiate the Deity previous to the battle in which the Jebus were defeated and the King taken prisoner. Tlie Local Government Bill has passi-d its second reading in the House of Commons by 337 to 247. Threats are being made to destroy the French missions at Tanyan. Anti-i 'hristian riots have broken out in Mancliooria. The Czar and family have arrived in Copenhagen. Mrs Thompson has again made applica* tion for access to her children, but Lord Easher, Master of the Rolls, refused to make an order, pending the result of the divorce case. A man who had been successful in saying 27 lives during the floods in Missouri was himself drowned at tlie finish He was accorded a great public funeral. The death is announced of Mr William Vanderbilt. The Russian Government has agreed to advance 75 roubles to eacli needy emigrant who goes to Baron Hirch's colony. Rio de Janeiro, May 24 The Brazilian man-of war reported to be lost is the Balua. She had a number of troops on board. Paris, May 24. Madame Laymoud fatally shot and stabbed Madame Lassione, whom she sur prised with Monsieur Laymond in the lattcr's apartments. They ure Parisian society people. France is greatly strengthening the forts on ber north-eastern frontier. Berne. May 23 Fifteen young ladies were boating on Lake Zurich, when tlie boat upset", and seven weie drowned. New York, May 24. The negroes in Boston are forming secret societies and manufacturing bombs in order to deal out revenge for the lynching of some of their race some months ago. Information has been received from Venezuela that the rebels haye been defeated at Bejeima, with a loss of 500 killed and wounded. The latest despatches from Caracas state tbat the Venezuela insurgents have captured Coro, and are marching on Lanuela. Mozambique, May 25. There has been a great rising against the Portuguese in the Gauibesi territory, and natives are pillaging and devastating the country in all directions. Queilimane is in a state of seige. English and German warships have been ordered to Queihmaue to protect the interests of the respective countries. Tangier, May 24. The natives have declared war against the Government in Morocco. The Sultan is massing his troops. Washington, May 24. The Republicans ore urging Mr Blame to stand for the Presidency, and it is likely that he will consent to do so.