LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 46, 4 October 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

(pun phess associationl. London, October 3. Tom Mann, John Bums, M.P., Geo. Shipton, and Keir Hardie, M.P., have refused to attend the Socialist meeting in Trafalgar Square. The Church Missionaries decline to withdraw from Uganda. The Government will grant the British East Africa Company £13,000. It is reported that a Commissioner will be appoiuted to administer the district. The Duke of Connaught sprained his knee while out shooting at Balmoral, but is recovering. It is reported that after the British East Africa Company evacuate Uganda the British Commissioner will remain to manage affairs. Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, is seriously ill, suffering from influenza and gout. Four members of the Life Guards have been arrested at Windsor on charges of mutiny. The personalty in the estate of the late Lord Sherbrook is proved under i' 15,000. The Spectator says Germany is taking measures to increase the army by 140,000 men in two years, which it thinks indicates a preparation for a prolonged struggle with France. Sir J. Yogel concurs with Mr Deakin, that direct taxation to a moderate amount will strenghten the financial position of Victoria and promote economy. He suggests that Victoria should follow the New Zealand system of land settlement. Yokohama, October 2. The Japanese Press is indignant at the expulsion of Japanese labourers from America, and urges that reprisals be made. Calcutta, Oelober 2. The Ameer has defeated the Hazarae, and captured Wzughnn. The Ameer is making great preparations for the reception of Lord Eoberts at Jellalabad. General Lockhart has destroyed the village of Huzzangai and captured the chiefs. St Petebsbitbg, October 2. A Russian scientific expedition has been despatched to Thibet. It is expected to be absent two years. Paris, October 2. Figaro publishes what are asserted to be the suppresed details of a recent spinners' slrike at Lomzn, in Poland. A mob attacked the Jews, outraged and murdered their women. The Cossack troops intervened, and 200 of tljemob were shot. Figaro says that General Gourko the Governor-General, issued orders to "Kill without mercy. Do not spare powder. Advices frcm Dahomey report that Colonel Dodds, French commander, is inyesting Abomey, the capital of the country. The Dakomevans, after losing several hundreds in the recent battle, kept the field under fire ia order to collect the dead, and the slaughter was so grent that the total loss was increased to 1300. Le Temps doubts whether England will really give Uganda up. Washington, October 3. It is reported that the real murderer of Dr. Croniu is a man named Geohegan, who is a prisoner iv Portland, Oregon. Some navvies in Pennsylvania dynamited an Italian ganger named Sporati in his bedroom, and mutilated the bod;, iv revenge for his imposition of fines and general tyrannj. Berlin, October 3. Tbo Vossische Zeitung congratulates Mr Gladstone on his determination to have uothing to do with Uganda, and thinks the decision shows that the British are weary of missiouary troubles. The Vossische Zeitung declares that Germany has no hankering after Uganda. Schultz and Viette, bankers, of Berlin, haye been arrested on a charge of fraud. Their liabilities are stated to be a million and a half sterling. Constantinople, October 1. The Sultan has appoin'ed a commission consisting of Moslems and Chris • tians to report on the present condition of Armenia.