LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 48, 8 October 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (PEE PEESS ASSOCIATION). Beelin, October 7. Count Starhemburg an Austrian completed the ride from Vienna to Berlin in 71 hours 34 minutes and secures first prize and silver bust of the Emperor of Germany presented by the latter. Baron Reitzenstein, a German, finished the journey in 73 hours 6 minutes, notwith- , standing that he was lost in a fog for a time. London, October 6. Mr Perceval has proposed to Mr Munro that New Zealand and Victoria shall take joint action to urge the British Government to enforce the provisions . of the Margarine Act. which is now a dead letter. He thinks that the colonial butter trade would benefit if the Act were strictly carried out. The French troops routed the Daho meyans at Ponguesse, killing 2000. Their own loss was only 19 killed and 22 wounded . The Standard advocates the appoint* ment of an Indian Frontier Commission in order to avoid so many little wars John Burns is of opinion that ' we shall soon see Socialism applied to municipal, industrial and national questions.' October 7. Manager Hirth believes that the evacuation of Uganda by the British East Africa Company will result in a repetition of the Soudan disaster. At the Anglican Church congress an animated discussion took place on the suggested vivisection of the Church during which Bishops Barry and Moorhouse attacked the proposal of the Bishop of Edinburgh, and declared disastrous results would follow. It was supposed that Bishops Barry and Moorhouse were the voice of the Church in this matter. Dr Victor Horsley F.R.S. attacked Bishop Barry with considerable warmth and quite a scene was the result. The Official Receiver has published his observations into the affiairs of the Mercantile Bank of Australia. He states that many of the matters connected with its management .demand searching enquiry. The funds in hand, he considers are sufficient to pay a first dividend of 20s in the £. The Beceiver has realised all the assets in England and estimates that the amount will reach ±'57,000. Total amount owing to unsecured creditors in London is £1,036,000 of which £998,000 is due to depositors. The Rev. Mr French, speaking at the Church Congress, said the children in Victoria and New Zealand were ignorant of the Bible, and that unbelief was general. Washington, October 7 The Democrats have carried Georgia by a majority of 79,000. New York, October 6. Despatches from Venezuela, regarding the civil war which is still lingering on in that country, say that General Crespo defeated the Government forces at Valencia, and captured some of the Ministers. Six hundred were killed. For assaulting white girls in Tennessee a negro was tried by lynch law and riddled with bullets. Paeis, October 6. The French oarsmen defeated the English crew in a two mile race on the Seine by 2£ lengths. Time, lOimn 2osec There is a growing agitation in France against the protection tariff, especially in so far as it affects wool. Buda-Pesth, October 7. Forty-seven cases of cholera are re>ported, of which seven were fatal.