LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 49, 11 October 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PEB PEESS ASSOCIATION). London, October 10. The Times considers it would be a retrograde step to abandon the 'Frisco mail service, and thinks an equitable agreement might easily be arranged. Sir G. Portal declares the evacuation of Ugarida will certainly be the signal for a general war and a massacre of Christians on a scale not seen for centunea will be inevitable. The Times thinks it is not surprising the Broken Hill Proprietary Mine owners have taken steps to emancipate themselves from the tyranny of the unions. Clement Scott, a leading theatrical critic, of London, visits Australia next year. He will reach Melbourne in March and give a series of lectures on " Thirtytwo Years at the Play.". East, the sculler has returned the Searle Memorial Cup to the trustees, who offer it to English and Australian oarsmen as a Trophy for a race over the Putney to Mortlake course early in December. Lord Houghton, on attending a theatre in Dublin, was accorded a most enthusiastic reception by the audience. Cheers were given to Mr J. Morley for his proposals in favour of granting autonomy to Ireland, and the band played the National Anthem. In the course of his remarks in the debate on vivisection at the Anglican Church Congress in Folkestone, Bishop Barry declared that the system was practised with hideous cruelty, and he insisted on its prohibition. The Irish Eyicted Tenants' Society threaten to boycott the annual collection of funds for the Irish Parliamentary Party unless the money in the Pans banks is released and applied to their relief. The 6nal estimate of the British when* crop is placed by The Times at 18 per cent below average, but the storms usually experienced this month are likely to render the result still worse. The farewell sermon of Rev Thomas Spurgeon m the Tabernacle was listened to by a crowded congregation, the members of which cried ' God blesa you, you will return again.' St. jfETEBSBUBft, October 8. The total number of deaths recorded in Russia from cholera amounts to 300.000. Paris, October 8 Several suspicious deaths have occurred at Marseilles, which, it is feared, are of a. choleraic nature. Capetown, October 10. The Bishop of Capetown has forbidden his clergy to celebrate marriage with a deceased wifes sister, despite the pasiage of the recent act legalising them. Caracas, October 10, General Crespo, leader of the Legahstors, as the revolutionary party is called, was elected provisional President of Venezuela, and was warmly welcomed on his arrival in Caracas, where he has put a stop to pillaging. After the surrender to the insurgents the mob sacked Caracas and La Guayra. Sailors from the foreign warships landed at the latter place to protect the resideuts. Washington, October An Anti-Convict Society in Knoxville is pledged to kill anyone giving evidence against Munroe, their leader, who is being tried for the murder of a militaman during the recent riots in Tennessee. Rome, October 9. His Holiness the Pope, on the occasion of his" jubilee, is inviting the Eastern schisms to rejoin the Boman Catholic Church.