LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 15, 23 July 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH ELECTIONS. LABOUR TROUBLES. ' By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright, (I'KU UNITKU PUKSS ASSOCIATION.) London, July 20. The Daily Telegraph says the new Ministry will include Mr John Morley ns Chief Secretory for Ireland, and possibly Lord Carrington ns Viceroy of Ireland ; Earl Kimberley as Secretary for India, Sir W. V. Harcourt as Home Secretary, Sir Charles Rnssell as Attorney General, and Mr Labouchcre ns Postmaster-General, July 21. The anxiety felt in financial circles in the City that the recent rise in Colonial stocks would induce an early renewal of borrowing, has depressed the money market. Madam Melba has abandoned her intended trip to Australia. Mr Carnegie subscribed £1000 towards Mr Keir Bardie's election expenses. The importers of fruit report lhat the season has been unprofitable. They complain of inferior packing, and assert that another similar season will destroy the market for colonial fruit. They are in favour of the higher qualities of apples being sent, but do not believe in peaches. The Sydney apples were the best received. It is considered tbat Mr Gladstone's majority is enough to enable the Liberals to do a good deal of work. Mr O'Conor, iv addressing a meeting said that many Liberal candidates had been defeated by the influence of publicans. This election had produced the greatest corruption that had been seen for 30 years. St. James' Gazette says that Mr Gladstone demands a pledge from the Irish members before forming a Cabinet, and the Irish are hesitating. A crisis is threatened in the Lancashire cotton trade, owing to the reduction of w.ages and the increase of hours. Lightning killed a family of five at Richmond, Kentucky, and fired a school in Georgia, killing two persons and injuring several others. The fact of Mount Vesuvius becoming active is attributed to the eruption of Mount Etna. Influenza is making alarming ray ages in Chili. The Times state that L 550,000 worth of debentures will be offered directly by a prosperous New Zealand industrial concern. A severe gate in the Irish Channel has caused many shipwrecks. A Liverpool lifeboat, while engaged in the work of rescue, was upset, and three of the crew drowned. July 22. Many of his friends are urging Mr Gladstone to accept a peerage. Desperate fighting is reported from Morocco between Hindna, the insurgent Cader, and the Sultan's troops. The former burned three villages in the vicmitv of Tangier. The Times gives the total Home Rule vote as f0110w5:— 2,d77,856 ; Anti-Home Rule, 2.274,842. The majority of the latter in Kngland was 121,635. The Home Rule majority in Wales was 51,635, m Scotland 36.185, and in Ireland 236,828. Net majority in favor ot Home Rule 203,014. New York, July 21. Mr Cleveland, addressing a meeting of fifty thousand Democrats in New York, made a strong freetrade speech, claiming to expose the pretended solicitude for American labour. The Governor of Pennsylvania has refused to remove the troops from Carnegie's homestead until law and order has been vindicated, and states that he would sooner spend every shilling in the Treasury than give in. Pakis, Jnly 21, A French mission will leave for Morocco in September for the purpose of arranging a treaty with the Sultan on much the same lines as that recently suggested by the British representative and rejected. The Journal des Debats declares that the reason of the British treaty failing was owing to the violent attitude displayed by its Commissioner (Sir Charles Ewan Smith). It is reported that a plot has been discovered in Paris to destroy the Bourse, the Palais de Bourbon, and the Palais de Justice. Several arrests have been effected. Washington, Jnly 21. Tbe position of the Idaho strikers, cooped up in the mountain, is hopeless. They have challenged the military to attack them, and boast that they will die with arms in their hands. A Committee of Congress reports that since the McKinley tariff came into force articles of consumption in daily life have been sold over 3 per cent lower, while products haye averaged 18 per cent higher prices, and wages are 77 per cent above the Britith standard. July 22. The House of Representatives has passed a Bill authorising retaliatory | measures against Canada. Eighty of the Idaho strikers will shortly be arrested on a charge of conspiring to murder thirty -nine mine owners. It is reported that a number of free laborers who were captured were burned to death. BEBLIN,JuIy2I. The Vossische Zeitung asserts that the German financiers decline to assist in floating the Russian loan, on the ground that poverty secures peace. Hobaet, July 22. Arrived —Doric, from London, via the Cape, this morning. She sails to-morrow morning for Port Chalmers. Newcastle, July 22. The barque Arethusa has arrived here. She brings the captain and his wife, aud the crew of the barque Africa, wrecked off the Cape of Good Hope. The barque sailed from New York with 45,000 cases of petroleum in May. She experienced a terrific gale on June 3rd. The hatches were wished off, and the vessel soon be ; came waterlogged. The crew suffered great privations for five days. On the Bth, the Arethusa hove in sight, and all hands were taken in safety onboard. The ill-fated yessel was level with the water when the crew abandoned her. ___ tmmm