LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 34, 6 September 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

| I'EK UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I London', September 4. Serious riots have taken place in the salt districts in Chesire owing to the Unionists refusing to work with the freelabourers. The military assisted the police in restoring order. Rains and gules have severely damaged the Imps in Kent, :ind the yield is only expected to be about the snine as last year. September 5. The British ship Aluinbagh was wrecked in a hurricane in the Atl inlic. Thirty- five lives wore lost. The ship Aiichmniintiun was insured for £20.000. The Standard, in discussing the harvest prospects, estimate that the British wheat crop will not average more than 26 bushels to the acre owing to the mildew. Mr Win O'Brien states that Curran's loan of £5000 from Australia enabled him to light the elections, otherwise he would

haye been penniless. Mi- Milledge, late manager of the Mercantile Bank of Victoria, in tbe course of an interview asserted that he knew the bank was insolvent some time after his return to Melbourne. He resigned the management because he was unable to press his friends to make a call, and he believes that a call of 25 per cent per share will meet all the wants. Mr Milledge declares that Sir M. Davies influence on the Board of Directors was too great to enable a manager of the bank to control advances to what were known as the " Davies Companies." The ship Auckmountain, burnt at Greenock, while loading for New Zealand ports was valued at £15,000 and the cargo at from £20,000 to £30,000. Lisbon, September 5. The whole of the Sardine Factories in Portugal are closed owing to the inability of the Government to pay the drawback on the foreign oil used in canning. Paris, September 4 The action of France in constructing a fortified harbour at Biserta, in Tunis, at a cost of £600,000, is causing some ex* citement in Italy and Austria. New York, September 4. Tbe Now York Herald alleges that the seizure by the British of Gilbert and Cornwallis Islands is tbe result of an intrigue on the part of the British and the Germans to expel American traders from the South Sea. While au excursion steamer was passnig Carnegie's works at the Homestead the passengers derided the freemen whom they called blacklegs. The soldiers in another vessel pursued the excursion steamer and overtaking her went ou board and arrested 25 of the passengers. In the struggle several persons were injured. Berlin, September 4 German warships have been ordered to prevent the natives umler the dominion of the German New Guinea Company from engaging themselves as labourers for other parts of the world. Buenos Aykes. September 4. The arrest of 11 officers prevented a military rising in the Argentine. St Petersburg, September 4. The Russian officers of the cruiser | Zabiinka defend their action in. seizing sealers at Copper Island on the ground that when sealers are expelled from liehring Sea by the British authorities they are not going to be allowed to pursue their c.illing with impunity on the Asiatic shore. Liverpool, September 5. Arrived — Opawa, ship, from Timaru, June 8, with frozen meat in good condition. Brisuane, This Day, Cunnamulla, a town situated in the county of Wellington, on the eastern bank of the Warrego river, has been visited by a cyclone and considerable damage done.