LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 36, 10 September 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

| PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I London, September 8. The barque Osman Pasha of 497 tons, Captain Wallis, which left Newcastle (N.S.W,) for Glasgow on March 14, is posted at Lloyds as missing. The Times states that it is rumoured certain building and other companies are in difficulties owin,<{ to the suspension of the London and General Bank, Limited. The Advertiser declares thut the liabilities of the companies referred to amount to six million pounds. It is reportod that the crew of the barque Windermere, bound from Glas* gow to Freemontle, Western Australia, broke out in mutiny in mid ocean and murdered the captain. It is reported that Mr R.L. Stevenson, the novelist, will shortly be appointed British Consul in Samoa. Mr W. B. Perceval, in communicating with the Post Office, represents that it is grossly unfair for the Imperial Government to throw the additional cost of the San Francisco Mail Service on New Zealand, especially since the postage rates by that route were reduced from 6d per £oz to 2\A on the initiative of the Im« perial Government. Mr Perceval also points out that the Suez mail is a week longer in transmission. September 9. The Trades Union Congress has carried a resolution urging the Government not to purchase foreign goods. R. J. Watson aud Sons, worsted spinners, of Bradford, have convened a meeting of their creditors. Sir Graham Berry's absentee tax, in* troduced in the Victorian Parliament, is cordially received in the city. The Daily News declares that the British trade is recovering from the loss sustained on the first introduction of the McKinley tariff. The manifesto issued by the supporters of the late Mr Parnell states that it is necessary to provide a safeguard against the possible treachery of the Government. Pabis, September 8. Information has been received here that the King of Dahomey's troops are submitting to the French. St John?, September 8. A. movement is on foot favourable to the annexation of Newfoundland to \ Canada. Rome, September 9. Great fetes in celebration of the voyage of Columbus have taken place at Genoa, and the fleets belonging to the various European nations tired salutes on the arrival of King Humbert. At night the < city was splendidly illuminated. Ottawa, September 8. The Hon. G. E. Foster, Minister of Finance in the Dominion Parliament, states that since the McKinley tariff came into operation in the United States, the Canadian exports have increased by £6,000,000.