LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 63, 15 November 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PKR PRESS ASSOCIATION). Washington, November 14. President Harrison has issued orders for all immigrant vessels to be quarantined for twenty days in order to test the right of the Government to restrict immigration. The United States will shortly declare a protectorate over Hawaii. The warship Ranger will go to Samoa instead of the Alliance, the latter remaining at Honolulu. The Senate is composed of 44 Democrats 40 Republicans and 4 Farmers Alliance. Cleveland's total poll was 430,000 over Harrison's. Paris, November 14. Colonel Dodds has been authorised to arrange a peace with the Dahomeyans and on the condition that certain points along the coast are ceded to France, that France be allowed to appoint official residents in Kana and Abomey, that trade routes be constructed and the custom of human sacrifices abolished. The French Chamber has abolished the privilege of exemption from arrest h itherlo. enjoyed by officers of the Legion of Honour. This measure is the outcome of the trial of M. De Lesseps in connection with the Panama Canal scheme. Calcutta, November 14. The demolition of Chin villages is proceeding. Many of the rebels bave been killed. Lisbon, November 11. A start has been made to blast the rocks around H.M.S. Howe atFerrol. London, November 11. France, Belgium, Italy, Holland and Greece are arranging to take combined action at the monetary conference which meets at Brussels. Speaking at a meeting of Socialists and unemployed in Trafalgar Square, Guelch, the Socialist leader, advocated a revolution and said he hoped to see the unemployed armed and drilling in the Square. Chief Rabbi Adler deprecates the proposed procession of unemployed Jews barefooted as an act of senseless folly. Dr Nansen, the Norwegian explorer, sails for the Arctic Ocean in June, with provisions for five years. He takes a boat specially constructed to bear great pressure from the ice and will endeavour to cross the North Pole by the route of a supposed current, along which wreckage drifted from the Jeannette, in 1884, to the coast of Greenland. John Hums, M.P, advocates the establishment of labour bureaus under Nationui control. Honest men out of work was, he said, the saddest sight in the world. November 14. Cholera has reappeared in North France, and is spreading in Hungary, where thirty deaths were recorded on Saturday in a single village. St. Johns, November 13. Gales off the Newfoundland Coast have destroyed 10 vessels, with a loss of 25 lives, _______________