LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 53, 20 October 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

•♦■ A DISASTRIOUS FIRE. LOSS OF LIFE. (PKR PEKBS ASSOCIATION). London, October 17. Mr Arnold White estimates that there are half & million unemployed in London. October 19. The creditors of the Mercantile Bank of Australasia have resolved to obtain counsels opinion in Melbourne as to the criminal and civil liabilities of the directors of the bank, and if there is a reasonable prospect of a conviction they will take preliminary steps to get the Government to prosecute. A Hamburg «eaman is suffering from cholera in London. The Garter, which has fallen yacent by the death of the Duke of Sutherland, will be bestowed on Lord Roseberry. An Australian lady has presented the Prince of Wales, on behalf of the Imperial Institute, with a peal of ten bells, as a memento of the Queen's Jubilee. This peel will be seoond only to St. Pauls. Zanzibar, October 18. The Waheheis have revolted against German rule. They attacked the post at Ussum Ara, and killed the Governor and officers. St. .Petkrßbubo, October 14. The death rate from Cholera in Russia is 900 per day. . Addressing a meeting of the National Federation, Mr John Dillon said the worst clouds in connection with Irish affairs had passed over and the granting of an impartial commission was the best service that could have been rendered to the evicted tenants Calcutta, October 19. It is reported that the Ameer of Afghan istan will urge Lord Roberts to persuade the Indian Government to recognise his illegitimate son as his successor. The Chins are collecting men and guns and inciting the friendly tribes to join the rising. Nkw York, October 17. Mr Andrew Carnegie declares that the industrial outlook in Great Britian is dark, nnd thai the United States is easily able to undersell her manuiac* tures. October 19. An extensive fire occurred at Eaglewood, in Chicago. The damage is estimated at half a million dollars. Several persons were killed. Paris, October 19 Latest news from Dahomey reports the French troops as marching on Cana. They had many skirmishes with the enemy, but no loss was incurred. Owing to questions put in the Chamber of Deputies the premier offered his personal arbitration with the strike at Carmaux. It is believed that the allegations by the French officers m Dahomey that the Germans ate assisting the natives, will be the cause of a Franco-German difficulty. Constantinople October 19. The sultan, replying to Russia, denies that his reception of Stambuloff was a violation of the treaty of Berlin. Cairo, October 18. The Wahabees, a warlike Mahometan sect in Central Arabia, have rebelled and massacred the German Governor and his officers.