LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 25, 16 August 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright, | PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I London. August 15. At a meeting in Phoenix Park, Dublin, which was attended by 15,000 people, resolutions were carried demanding an amnesty be granted to the political prisoners. Onatobel de Murneta, head of the firm of Murrieta and Co. has been declared a | bankrupt. ' A Blud Book has been published, con- j tainin<,' despatches from the Colonial Governments on the Kanaka labor question. Sir H. Norrnnn, Governor of Queensland, says the opposition to the resumption of the traffic was mainly confined to the clergy and Trades Unions. Victoria (8.C.), August 15. H.M.S. "Warspite, which grounded at the entrance to Esquiniault Harbor, sustained serious injury, and has been ordered to be docked for repairs. The programme for the Trades' Union Congress, which meets on the sth September, includes proposals for an International Congress on the 8 hours question, and the legal instead of the optionnl eight hours system, and the introduction of the decimal system. CONSTANTINOPE, August 15. The documents fonnd in the possession of the Russian, Jacobsen, show that the Eussian Minister at Bucharest wrote to the Foreign Office at St. Petersburg proposing to remove Prince Ferdinand by means of a revolutionary committee or the use of dynamite. New York, August 15. Information from Venezuela states that the town of Bolivar was captured by a strategem of the rebels who, under the pretence that they were under flight, succeeded in drawing the garrison troops out of the city. The miners of Tracey City, Tennessee, seized a number of convict laborers put them on board a train, and deported them from the city. The miners of Tracy City killed several of the convicts whom they seized. The Goyernor of the State declares that he will order the ringleaders ot the outrage to be shot in the event of their being captured. The Switchmen on the New York, Lake Erie, Western Leigh, and Buffilo Creek railways have struck for higher wages. The strikers fired on two trains consisting of sixty carriages, and on tho houses occupied by the watchmen. They also derailed a passungor train, buf fortunately this act was not accompanied by loss of life. The police and soldiers are restoring order. Calcutta August 15. There is increased agitation on the silver question and the apparent supineness of the Government has given grave dissatisfaction. The currency association urges the Secretary for India to c;ible permission to the local Government to adopt a pold standard. Ismail Khan, a relative of the Ameer, is intriguing with Russia. St. Peter sb uh ft, August 15. Five thousands deaths from cholera have occurred since August 11. Tkheraf, August 14., Three thousand deaths from cholera have been reported at Tabriz. The town has beeu deserted. Brussels, August 14. It has been ascertained that Hodisher, director of the Katanga expedition, |nas captured by Arabs, who tortured him for three days, and tlien beheaded the unfortunate man. Washington. August 14 A girl named Borden has been arrested for the murder of her wealthy father and stepmother at Fall River, Mass. She is alleged to have administered poisoned milk, and while they were in sensible killed ani uiuiiiaied them in revenge for a quarrel. Paris, August 16. An attempt to destroy the Liw Courts in Grenoble, Department of I.°ero, by means of au iufernal machine, was frustrated. :i _^__ i