LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 44, 29 September 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PKK PKKSS ASSOCIATION). London, September 27. Tlie Investigation Committee of the Mercantile Bank of Australia exhibit increased hostility towards the Melbourne management, and hold that all the menv bers of the Colonial Board deserve prose* cution, especially Sir Matthew Da vies. They assert that Victoria's credit is on trial, and that the report of the Colonial Committee surpassed all expectations. The shareholders declare that they have been deliberately and systematically, swindled. The relations of Andrew Mcßae, gro« ccr's assistant, committed for trial for the murder and mutilation ot Annie I'ritcliurd, at Althorpe, declare that the woman is still alive, and that she will be produced at the trial. They assert that the case is one of mistakeu identity. Lord Randolph Churchill has been appointed Chairman of a powerful .syndicate intending to explore in Transvaal and Mashonaland. The cotton spinners, after a conference with the masters, hare reFused to agree to a reduction, and will strike. The decision of the Colonial Office respecting the Legislative Council appointments in New Zealand is intended to apply to future cases, but the authorities considered that the constitutional course would have been for the Ministry to resign. September 28. A warship is going to the Siberian coast to demand the release of the British sailors seized by the Russians upon the sealing vessels. Mr Gladstone is reported to have invited Archdeacon Howell to propound a Disestablishment Bill on lines acceptable to the Welsh clergy. Rome, September 27. Anarchist plots have been discoyered at Bologna and Pavia. Many bombs were found. Eighty arrests have been made. St Petebsbubg, September 27. The Novoe Vreraya thinks that Mr Gladstone is not inclined and not able to quarrel with Russia,