LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 47, 6 October 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

UNITY OP THE CHURCHES. (PICK PRESS ASSOCIATION). '. London, October 5 A deputation, consisting of Congrega- I tional Ministers, waited on the Anglican i , Church Congress sitting at Folkestone, j and stated the distinctions in yarions communions were not impassable barriers to a union of the churches. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in replying, said he was yearning for unity, and thought it would be accomplished at no distant date. Over have a million of money has been redeposited in the Birkbeck Bank on which there was a heavy run lately. A. syndicate of bankers have taken £800,000 worth of Central Argentine railway stock belonging to the Barnip estate. The late Duke of Sutherland left all his property to his widow. The unentailed value is said to be nearly a million. Many enquiries by royalty and foreign persons of rank are being made as to Lord Tennyson's health. Latest bulletins state that he is a little easier. Lord Tennyson is completely prostrate and is believed to be dying. The Anglican Church Congress at Canterbury passed a resolution urging that the Church should take a greater interest in the welfare of the labouring classes. During the Church Congress at Folkstone party feeling ran so hi^h that the Ritualists tore to shreds the banner carried by the Low Churchmen in a procession, depicting the martyrs at stake in hmitlifield during Queen Mary's reign. The Liberator Building Society has been wound up ; liabilities 3^ millions A passenger from Australia by the Orient, named Rogers, disappeared from the steamer lona on his way to Leith, and it is feared he fell overboard. The Daily Chronicle says the Irish landlords have, givea notice to thirty thousand tenants. Vienna, October 4. The Emperor of Austria condemns the antioJewish agitation. St. .Fetebsbubg, October 4. The Russian Government n again de» mnndini; payment of arrears of the Tur» kish war indemnity. Steps are being t:iken to meet the deficit by the issue of credit notes. Pahis, October 4. A French crew was cast away in the Persian Gulf, and were a fortnight without food or water. Four died, and the others eventually drifted on to the Arabian coast, where they were rescued by the Bedouin 1 :. Washington, October 5 Mr Chauncey Depew, in the course of a speech, said there were scarcely a hundred thousand voters in America who were opposed to Mr Gladstone's scheme of autouomy for Irpland Berlin, October 5. Prince Frederick Leopold was the first German officer to complete the ride from Berlin to Vienna. A number of horses were killed in the ride. Tangier, October 5. There is considerable friction between Count Daubigny (the French Consul) and the Sultan over the indignities to which the former was subjected by Morroco officers while en route to Fez.