LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 37, 13 September 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. [ I'BK UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I New Yobk, September 12. A goods train dashed into a passenger train in Boston, eight persons beinj; killed and 25 injured. London, September 12- i The attempt to establish an export trade i of beef from the Argentine has proved a ; failure. . Lieutenant Feary's exploring expedition in Greenland has been successfully relieved. News from Venezuela states that General Pepper, under the direction of Die tator Mendoza, has arrested the leading merchants and European Consuls, at La Gnayara, and insisted on a heavy ransom. The American Consul, acting in consent with the British and French Consuls demanded the release of their colleagues. Pepper showed some hesitation whereupon the foreign warships prepared for action. Mendoza then gave orders to release of the prisoners, and it is reported he has since resigned the Dictatorship. j A3 an instance of the condition of : domestic workshops it was stated at the Trades Union Congress that two months ago clothes were made for the Duke of York by the tailoreases in a fever stricken house with a child lying dead next door. Three thousand hands employed on naval construction and armaments at Barrow, in Furness, have struck against a reduction of five per cent. Mr Asquith, Home Secretary, has refused to release Mrs Maybrick. The Standard says the Russian Government hopes Captain Yanoff will be settled so securely in the Pamir by the Spring that it will be useless for China to attempt to dislodge him. Agrarian outrages and threats in Ireland are increasing. St. Petersburg, September 12. Thirty million roubles will be required for seed corn in the eleven provinces of Russia devastated by famine. Calcutta, September 12. The Euler of Chitral, a small district in the mountainous country on the northwest frontier of India, is dead. A younger son seized the throne, and it is feared the older will ask Russian aid to reinstate him. Berlin, September 12. The German Liberal Press is hostile to the proposed increase of the army at a great cost. St Petersburg, September 12. The Novoe Vremya says YanoiFs expedition is not for scientific purposes, but solely to strengthen Russian authority in the Pamirs. Tangier, September 12. The Sultan of Morocco has dismissed the Governor of Aughera district. Ottawa, September 11. Hedley, a suburb of Quebec, has been burned, and 120 families rendered homeless. The damage is estimated at a million dollars. Vienna, September 11. The Archduke Franz Ferdinand D'> Kste starts on a tour round the world in an Austrian warship in December. He will visit Australia and New Zealand. Tangieus, September 11. The Sultan lias pardoned 15 Aueherite Slifiks m order to secure their assistance agaiusl Human, rebel leader. Rome, September 10. The Italian press show much entliusiasm over the visit of the French Mediterranean fleet to Genoa during the celebration of tlie voyage of Columbus. Paris, September 10. It is reported that France and Russia have agreed to insist on the English withdrawing from Egypt. M StHilaire expresses the belief that Mr Gladstone will not evacuate the country, but is of opinion that lie does not desire to annex it. The Jews in Paris are being threatened with, dynamite, and are appealing to the Government for protection.