LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 59, 5 November 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PICK PEESS ASSOCIATION). London, November 4 It is feared that H.M.S. Howe will become a total loss. Her keel is destroyed, and the bows submerged. The crew are safe. Admiral Fairfax telegraphs he is making every effort to secure the ship on the rocks. Mrs Leader obtained £'500 damages in the jewel case. The Dockers' Union protest against the injustice of the sentences on the Broken Hill leaders. The bankrupt estate of James Alexander, of the Alexander Redtern Company, shows a deficit of £166,268. It will probably realize not more than 3s in the £. Keir Hardie, addressing a meeting at Tower Hill, declared a million and a quarter of the people in Great Britain were starying or in want of work. General Booth visits Winnioeg, Canada, in the summer, with the view of settling some of the ' submerged tenth ' there. Tlie friends of the poisoner Niell are petitioning for his reprieve on the grounds of insanity. Washington, November 4. The Democrats are now less confident of winning the Presidential election. Twenty-five persons haye been drowned during the gales on Lake Michigan. Suakim, November 4. Osman Digna is trying to persuade the neighboring tribes to join the Mahdi. The garrison at Tokar has been reinforced. Paris, November 4. The French Courts have awarded Mr Deacon, who shot his wife's paramour, custody of the children, and recognised his riyht to apply for criminal divorce. Mr Loubet, the Premier, declines to appoint a bishop at the bidding of the Pope. Beblin, November 4, Prince Bismarck, in criticising the Army Bill, favours longer service than that proposed. He declares that Russia could not be prepared for war under three years, and that it is only the newspapers and the Polish nobility who desire Bismarck insists the Army Bill necessary, and that there need be little fear of war for several years to come. France, he considers, is incomparably more peaceful now than at any time since 1888. ' A tresh case of cholera is reported in Hamburg. A party of poachers shot Baron Goltz and liis gamekeeper near Strasbourg. Vienna, November 4. Tins city is officially declared free of cholera. New York. November 4. Tlig tunnel in connection with using the Naigara Falls for motive power for electric lighting purposes is completed. The power obtained is immense, and at half the cost of steam. Calcutta, November 3. The Pioneer states there is clear evidence that Colonel Yanoff deliberately picked a quarrel with the Afghans.