LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 65, 19 November 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

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! A SHOCKING OUTRAGE. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PKB PBESS ASSOCIATION). London iN ovember 18. Obituary— Rev. Charles Clarke, Uni tarian minister, Birmingham. Reports from the wool consuming centres coHvey a good general impression , thai prices will rise at next series. 1 here is Rood enquiry for Bradford tops. The Chronicle sajß Government will not release prisoners who ure serving sentences for participation in dynamite outrages. Mrs Annie Besant is sending Mrs Cooper Oakley to Australia to preach theosophy. Owing to the marvellous low prices ruhiig for stock many meetings of farmers have been held for the purpose of or* gauising sales of meat to customers on co-operative lines. A sensation was caused in social circles on it being learnt that Mrs Catherine Maude, the wife of an officer of high rank, had committed suicide at tbe hotel at which they resided. Her daughter had been arrested on a charge of stealing silver plate from the premises of Mr Spinks, a well-known jeweller, and it was alleged the crime was instigated by the mother, A letter in the Pall Mall Gazette warns etninigrants against proceeding to Aus tralia. It states there are 23,000 unem* ployed in Sydney, anu 21,000 in Mcl» bourne. Archdeacon Farrar deplores the lack of interest in religion displayed by the working classes, only 10 per cent of whom, he contends, attend church. He considers the principal remedy must be the abolition of pew rents. Sir Julius Vorcl has been appointed secretary to an English insurance com' pany. New Yoke, November 18. Wall, the Australian bookmaker, arrived in Chicago last March with 60,000 dollars, and opened a book on the Garfield Park meetings. He usually kept his money in a leather satchell. Wall, who apparently was a loser at the meetings, mysteriously disappeared, and it was thought he was disgusted at his luck and had returned to Australia. The satchell was recently found empty on the Prairie near Chicago, and this gives rise to the fear that he has been murdered. The police kept the matter quiet hoping to get definite information, but up to the present have not been successful. The Nicaragua Canal Construction Company is urging the United States Government to issue a hundred million dollars' worth of national bonds to raise funds for the purpose of constructing the cnnal While the electors were celebrating the election of Mr Clerelund in a school* house at Fayetteville, Arkansas, an explosion took place, destroying the build" ins. Four persons were killed and 15 injured. The outrage is attributed to political spite. areat Britain and the colonies occupy 450,000 square feet space at the Chicago exhibition. Mr William Lidderdale, Governor of tbe Bank of England, who is on a visit to New York, was welcomed by the pre« sulents of upwards of one hundred banking institutions.in the United States. Pabi.«, November 18 Owing to the extradition of the Anar* cliist Francios from England, the Anarchists have threatened to destroy the British Embassy The Russian Government is again at* tempting to float a loan of two hundred million francs in Paris, Baroness James Rothschild has been, converted to the Church of Rome. Beelin, November 17. The Vossische Zeitung says the United States have recognised that either Ger« many or England must possess Samoa. There is considerable excitement among press representatives in Berlin owing to the threatened expulsion of a New York reporter for adversely commenting on the Army Bill. St. JPetebsbubg, November 17. The Novoe Vremya says England has been ceaselessly creeping northwards in Asia, assisted by Russian inertia. Now her advance has been checked by Russia asserting her ownership of the Pamirs. Rome, November 17. Tbe Pope states the Vatican is deter mined to maintain cordial relations with France.