LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 29, 25 August 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright, " | PKll UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. J London, August 24. Sir W. V. Harcourt has been re-elected for Derby. The eight-oared boat race between English and French crews will be rowed on the Seine on October 9. A recount of yotes in the Lichfield election confirms the majority secured by Major L. Darwin, a dissentient Liberal, over Sir J. Swinburne who sat in the Liberal interest in the last Parliament, L&bouchere, in Truth, asserts that owing to Her Majesty's objection to hia being included in the new Government he was asked to get Mr Gladstone out of the difficulty by writing a letter declaring that he had no wish to join the Government, but he declined to do so, The electors of Northampton are indignant at Mr Labouchere's exclusion from the Ministry, and are protesting against his being refused a portfolio at the instance of the Queen on account of personal feeling. £The Japanese Government is supporting a thousand persons rendered destitute by the earthquake in Japan. The barque Roma, from Quebec, was wrecked at Port Elizabeth, and all hands lost. Sofia, August 24. Prince Ferdinand, in the course of an interview with a representative of the French newspaper Figaro, declared if he fell it would be by the knife or a bullet of a Russian assassin. Calcutta, August 24. The cholera has reached Cabul. The Uazarns have driven back the Governor of Gandahar from Chamian to Choorcb. The Ameer's troops are suffering from want of food. The Ameers troops have defeated the rebel Usbegs at Kaisar, and have quelled the rebellion. St Petebsbobg, August 24. The Russian officials have been instructed to allot land to Afghans taking refuge in Russia territory. Ottawa, August 24. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company declares that if necessary they are able to transport troops to Vancouver at the rate of 12,000 per day. New York, August 24. The prisoners arrested during the strike in Nashville assert they belonged to a brotherhood which enforced the death penalty if they refused to strike. Bkhlin, August 24. Of the 340 persons attacked by cholera in Hamburg 300 died yesterday. Dr Koch, who was ordered to report on the outbreak, pronounces it to be of the Asiatic type. Many of the streets in Hamburg are closed to traffic. Pabis, August 24. Cholera has broken out in Hayre. A number of deaths from cholera is reported in Havre. Attention is being given to the study oT the customs and wants of the Russian middle class to enable France to assist Russia in the economic struggle with Germany. Congo despatches prove that M. Poumayre, the French explorer, and 3d followers have been murdered by the natives m a manner similar to that id which M. Crampel's expedition was annihilated. Zanzibar, August 24. Baron Paul and four other leaders oi the German punitive expedition havt been murdered a} Kilimanjaro. Callao, August 23. A great fire has been raging in Callao, seaport of the Peruvian capital. Capetown, August 23. A general election is going on in Natal, the question at issue being the acceptance or rejection of Responsible Government. The opponents of acceptance fear that the English troops will be withdrawn, and the cost of defence thrown on the colony. Washington, August 23. A lady attempting to descend from a balloon, with a parachute, fell three hundred feet, and was killed at Columbia, Ohio.