LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 145, 4 June 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright, (PEIt UN ITU I) PUKSS ASnTJCIATION.) THE SUKZ CANAL. A CHABITABLW MILLIONAIRE. EUROPEAN AFFAIRS. A SILVER MINE ON FIBK. London. June 2. Owing to the increased traffic in the Suez Canal the Company has decided to make a reduction in January next of 50 centimes per ton in the charges upon vessels passing through the canal. The amount spent and pledged to charitable institutions in Europe in 1891 by Baron Hirsch was three million pounds. His gross winnings on the English turf during the same period, amounting to close on £8000, were given to the London hospitals. The capital required for the Pears' Soap Company was subscribed on the first day the lists were open The Grand Orange Lodge has resolved not to attend the Ulster Convention in its corporate capacity, but urges its members to support the gathering. The cholera has brokedout in Meshed, the capital of the province of Khorassan, and 40 deaths were recorded in one day The French press is publishing excited articles about the oppression of Catholics in Uganda. No British accounts of the recent tumults are yet receiyed. New Yobk, May 2. Intelligence from Venezuela states that a German vessel conveying arms for the insurgents, under General Crespo, has been seized at Saicedo. « Hundreds are deserting the ranks of the President's troops and joining the insurgents, who have surrounded Caracas, the capital of the Republic. A mutiny broke out among the Government troops at Maracy, near Caiacas, and 40 were killed and many wounded. News has been received that a revolt has broken out in Honduras, and that the insurgents have captured La Puebla and Cortez. Many were killed and wounded in the engagement. Berlin, June 3. The Czar and Kaiser will meet at Keil on June 7. St. Perersburg, June 3. Many Germans and Auetrians were suddenly expelled from Warsaw. Vienna, June I. The Berkenburgh silver mine, near Prague, in Bohemia, has caught fire. Fourteen miners were burned to death. June 2. The Hungarian Diet has carried a reso* lution which makes provision to equalise the liberty of the churches, In the course of a speech to«day the Emperor declared he had no fear of a great war arising in the near future. June 3. Eleven more dead bodies were recovered from Berkenburgh silver mine near Praqgue. Two hundred men are still missing.