LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 43, 27 September 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PICE PRESS ASSOCIATION). London, September 24. Mr Gladstone has an article in die North American Renew, in reply to the Duke of Argyll. He ridicules tbe idea thnt the British would allow the Irish to oppress the minoiitv, and points oat that England retains that power vested in the old Irish Parliament. If the Duke is right, contends Mr Gladstone, the Irish would not be human people at all, but a combination of the brute and the demon. The analogy drawn between the relations of the white people and the negroes in the I nited States is erroneous, A syndicate has made an offer to expend £15,000,000 on railway and harbour works in Portuguese Africa. September 26. Ruby Russell, an actress, living at Fulham, with Heron, a surgeon, from tbe Gambia district was found dead. Poison is suspected. Heron committed suicide. The Rev Thomas Spurgeon is willing to succeed his father aB pastor of the | Tabernacle. There is, however, some tension between his supporters and the adherents of tbe Rev Mr Pearson. The newspapers praise the music of Sir A. Sullivan and Mr S. Grundy's new opera, but the libretto, by Haddon Hall is considered weak. The Star publishes a report that the First Lifeguards at Windsor are being harassed by needless drilling and that 80 saddles were found cut to pieces. Fearing the funds invested in Paris may fall into tha hands of the French Government the Parnellities are now willing that they should be withdrawn, reinvested, and administered by a committee chosen from both sections of the Irish party. The Times says Mr Lyne, Minister of Public Works, New South Wales put his finger on one of the weakest spots in the policy of the Australian colonies, when he denounced the too great dependence of people on the Government. The Times dwells on the danger of nationalising the mines, and thinks the demand of the Sydney mob for the immediate release of the labour leaders through the direct interference of the Government, is a significant illustration of what would happen if the labour party succeeded in creating a class Government. Mr John Dilion was thrown from a car to-day, and sustained a fracture to one of his arms. Meetings continue to be held throughout Ireland in favour of the reorganisation of the National League. The Standard, in commenting on the decision of New Zealand to protect its fauna, says the Ministry is wise beyond most colonial Governments, and that the colony will be honoured by the visits of naturalists from all parts of the world. Three hundred cattle were killed at Maryborough in Ireland owing to an outbreak of cattle plague. St Petebsbubg, September 29. During the army manoeuvres at lvanjorva a gun burst and wounded a number of soldiers. The Czar and Czarina personally assisted ttie sufferers, the latter nursing the man who was most hurt and afterwards accompanying him to the Hospital. Zanzibah, September 26. The attempts to raise cattle and sheep in German East Africa, have failed. Pabis, September 26Comte de Housson- Ville, in a manifesto issued on behalf of Comte de Paris, declares that the French Republic will yet crumble. It is reported tbat the Russians havo seized four sealers, and taken them into Vludirostock, An English man«of»war has been ordered to Vladivostock to enquire into the circumstances attending the seizure. A Spanish painter named Pedro, resident in Paris, had a quarrel with his wife, whom he accused of adultery. The result was that he killed his wife and her mother, and fatally injured hit brother-in-law. Hong Kong. September 25. The Yellow River has overflowed its banks and inundated twelye towns, causing great distress, A typhoon swept the Loo Choo Islands, causing frightful damage. Five thousand buildings and sixty junks were destroyed, a vast quantity of crops swept away and many people killed. New Yobk, September 25. A cry of ' Fire ' caused a panic in a synagogue. Twelve hundred women rushed for the stairs, and in the crush that ensued four were trampled to death.