LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 24, 13 August 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

+ , I Uy Electric Telegraph.— Copyright, | PElt UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I London. July 12. The amendment to the Address-.in« Reply was carried by three hundred and fifty to three hundred and ten The division on the amendment lo the Address'in-Kcply is the largest on record. There were only five absentees excluding the Speaker. The Hon A. J. Balfour, Leader of the House, moved an adjournment until the 161 h insi., but made no statement as to the int-utiou of the Government. Guiltier swam the Cliaunel from Folkestone to Dover with his hands and feet chained. The next Antwerp wool sales will be he.d from the 23rd to the 26th inst, inclusive. Ten thousand hales of .River Plate wool will be catalogued, but none from Australia. The silver market shows signs of further depression, and among the Indian banks theie is a generally growing belief that America will shortly be compelled to stop the coinage of silver. Some of the City financiers believe that a silver panic is within measurable distance. Several of the representatives of ludian banks in London are consultin" with the merchants is to the best means to avert the danger. The Scottish Liberals iv the House of Commons have presented a memorial to Mr Gladstono asking that measures affecting Scotland shall, after the first reading, be referred to a committee of Scotch members. The Standard's Russian correspondent says that Yanoff, Commandant of the troops in Pamir has been instructed to prevent either the Afghans or Chinese obtaining footing there. Ships representing a hostile fleet succeeded in capturing Belfast. Letters from Captain Lugard report that he has consented to allow the Catholics to occupy the district of Budda, while iv Uganda Proper. All religious are to be free. The Chinese forces are reported to be proceeding toward the Pamirs. After Mr Chamberlain had finished Sir J, Lubbock, Sir H. James, and the Hon Mr Chaplain continued the debate but uo Liberal members spoke though there wore loud cries for Harcourt and Morley. The Irish members greeted the result of the division with cries of " Down with Coercion," " Down with Balfour," hissing and boohomng. The Unionists responded by standing up, waving their hats and cheering Mr Balfour. A Cabinet Council was held to-day and Lord Salisbury afterwards went to visit the Queen at Osborne. Mr Gladstone waits on Her Majesty on Saturday. Mr Keif Hardie states that the members of the Democratic Club will sit in Opposition pending the introduction of labour legislation. The Appeal Court has decided that it is illegal for au employer to deduct from his etnplo.es watres an amount for a compulsory Benefit Society. The bootmakers hayo agreed to the proposition that 44 hours shall constitute a week's labour. Nrw York, August U. The Atlantic liner Saale ran down a Norwegian barque dunn-: a fog. The latter ssink. but t!ie crew were saved. The Pitt.sburg mills are employing 40, •■ 000 men, and with the exception of Car* negie's have conceded the demands of 1 he unions. ST. I'ETERSBUBfi, August 11. Fifteen hundred persons at Trebizond. who had been placed in quarantine owing to cholera, attempted to brv.ik through the cordon placed round them. The soldiers were called out and quelled the disturbance, but not before seven people were killed. August 12. The Novosti says Russia cannot remain a passive onlooker of the Afghan crisis. Nearly 4000 deaths from Cholera are reported since August 10. Brussels, August 12. ! Great disturbances have been taking place in Central Africa. The Belgian stations were destroyed, and the agents killed on Upper Congo and in Katanga. Paeis, August 12. France has annexed Amsterdam and St. Paul islands in the Indian Ocean. Calcutta August 12. It is reported that another collision has occurred between the Russians and Afghans in the Alchur district of Pamir