LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 22, 9 August 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

. * By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. I PEll UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I London. August 7Sir C. Euan Smitli denies the bombaslic actions attribute/I to himself at Fez during the dispute with the Sultan, and expresses annoyunce at the inventions of reporters, of whose presence he was unaware. Negotiations respecting the trenty are being continued, and the Commissioner is confident of -ultimate success. August 8. Parliament opened to-day. The speech from tho throne was very brief and declares that it is unnecessary at this period to transact any business, aud it will meet again in tho customary season. The amendment to the address in reply, which will be moved and sec onded by Messrs Asquith and Burt, 10 • spectiyely, simply declares the Government do not possess tho confidence of the House. The Standard's Bulgarian correspondent telegraphs that M. Stambuloff did uot purchase papers from the Russian Jacobsen, which implicated Russia in tho attempted assassination of Prince Ferdinand, but pnvilj seized them. The Neieu Freie Press, a Vienna newspaper states that if the documents are true it will be simply impossible to associate Russia with the civilized powers, but she must be regarded as a savage nation. Mr Keir Hardie, a Labour member, appeared in the House of Common* attired in a blue serge coat with a flannel shirt, and without a collar, a tricolour scarf being tied round his neck. He was called to order for wearing a tweed cap in the Chamber. Takgiers, August 8. Tho Sultan's troops havo been repulsed by the rebels in the vicinity of the city. St. Petersburg, August 7 Twelve hundred fresh cases of cholem and 56' v) deaths are reported since August 2 in Kostov and Wakchwah, in the Don district. An official bulletin reports that since August 1 and 2 there have been 4100 seizures throughout Russia and over 2000 deaths. Cholera is increasing in Poland, and a violent outbreak has occurred in Teheran, the capital of Persia. Paris, August 8. A stormy meeting has been held in the city, to protest against the Sofia executions. Resolutions were carried lauding the condemned men as martyrs. Berlin. August 8 Three thousand five hundred deiths from cholera took place throughout Prussia on the 3rd and 4th of this month. Calcutta, August S. Owing to the defeat of the Chinese troops by the Afghanese in th" Pamir district, the Russian troops nre euterimj the Chinese territory. The authorities at Pekin have demanded an explanation of the conduct of the Russian, and another Chinese expedition to Pamir is being fitted out. Two regiments of mountain artillery hare beeu sent to Gilgit, on the N.W. frontier. New York, August 8 The assistance of soldiers has again been invoked in connection with the Pittsburg strike, as further rioting has broken out.