LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 144, 2 June 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

i * — i By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright, (TEH UNITKD PItKSS ASSOCIATION.) I GKNEHAL BOOTH'S SCHEME. A GHASTLY DISCOVERY. I DISASTROUS FLOODS IN i ARKANSAS. CHOLERA IN INDIA, TERRIBLE MORTALITY. London. June 1. The Standnrd advises Us readers not to aid General Booth's scheme, which it characterises as a worthiest piece of sensational bookmnking. The remains of 25 bodies have been discovered underneath a carriage factory which has been erected in Lone Acre for over a century. A few of the remains were confined in coffins, and it is ru* moured that the spot was formerly the site of a nunnery. Mrs Osborne has been confined of a daughter. Archibald Forbes has an articie in the New Review defending the Kanaka traffic in Queensland. The prospectus of Pear's Soap Company, with a capital of £810,000 and a working capital of £25,000, has been issued. New York, May 31. In Arkansas Valley 100 villages are flooded, and 20,000 people have been rendered destitute. Berlin, May 31. The Russian Government is making strenuous efforts to restore amicable relations with German*. Calcutta, May 30. Cholera is raging at Trinagar, Cashmere, nnd 999 deaths were -reported in four days. There are still 1700 oases under treat* ment. May 31. At Trinagar, in Cashmere, where cholera is prevalent, 2000 houses were destroyed by fire, and eighty thousand people are left homeless. . Two thousand five hundred deaths from cholera are reported at Trinagar in Cashmere. Paris, May 30. The French press are very indignant at the reported outrage on French mis* sionanes in Uganda. Both the Journal des Debates and Fisaro assert that. Great Britain instigated the disturbance. The British East African Company assert that it was the < atholics who dis* played the hostile attitude toward? the Prolestants in Uganda, and that the hitter could not have been the aggressors owing to their minority in numbers.