LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 28, 23 August 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

My Electric Telegraph.— Copyright, | I'KU UNITKD PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Teheran, Angus 22. Eight hundred deaths from cholera arc recorded daily. Tin 1 vice- Governor of the city and sever;il Europeans are among those who have succumbed. Berlin, August 22. Durine the German manoeuvres seven soldiers died from sunstroke, nnd 100 were disabled. Rome, Ausust 12, A regiment of Italian soldiers on the march to Vonice left a hundred of their number on the roadside overcome by heat. London, August 22. The crowd quietly removed 400 yards of the railway line on the common lands in Leyton, near London, as a protest against the infringement of the. privileges of the townspeople. Mr Licht, sugar expert, reports that for eleven months the beet production has decreased 189,000 tons and he estimates the campaign will show a decrease of 195,000 tons. In course of an interview with a representative of Dalziell's Agency in San Francisco, Sir Matthew Davies said he was indeed surprised at the turn of events in connection with the affairs of the Mercantile Bank in Melbourne and he was returning to the colony as soon as possible because of the unsettled condition of the bank. On his arriyal he would at once set about to disentangle the position and he declared that the charge that he had used the funds of the institution for his private purposes, was simply absurd. Several more deaths have occurred in Paris and Berlin from the excessive heat Mr D. H. Jackson, of New Zealand, has been awarded a Science scholarship founded by the Commissioners of the Kxhibition of 1851. The Financial News commends Mr Ballance's policy as a great and grand departure, and declares that New Zealand is on the high road to a career of successful development. Mr Plimsoll has resigned his connection with the Seamen's Union alleging that it is mismanaged. The Daily Chronicle is urging that the time has come for the State to acquire the ownership of the railways. The Benedictine Monastery at Mont* serrat, near Barcelona, has been burned. Buenos Ayues, August 22. Owing to a dispute in Congress the President of the Republic, Dr Carloa Pellegrini, has resigned. St. I'etkusbubg, August 22. A riot has broken out between the workmen engaged at Hughes Steel Factory at Ekaterinsalov and the peasantry workmen. Houses were fired and the factory wrecked. The military were called out and quelled the disturbance, but not before several were killed. Several of those connected with the cholera riots in Saratov have been hung, and large numbers deported to Siberia. Eussia is colonising Khoosja a valley on the Afghan border, and challenges the right of the Ameer to occupy Shighnan in the Pamirs. Calcutta, August 22. The clamour throughout India for closing the ore mints to the coinage of silver, is increasing and the refusal of the Government to indicate a remedy to avert the danger has incensed all sections of the populace. Washington, August 22. A farmer and sons have been murdered in Tennessee over a family vendetta The graves of former members were dynamited, and their bodies torn to pieces. News from South America states that owing to the revolt a state of siege has been proclaimed in the principal towns of Bolivia. Dynamite was found laid in the Customs Building in the capital.