LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 66, 22 November 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (PKB PBESS ASSOCIATION). Calcutta, November 21. An expedition has been ordered to Chitra, where the natives are showing signs of uneasiness. St. Petersburg, November 20. Villagers in Brest-Litovsk, Russian Poland, murdered ten horse atealers, hacked their bodies with scythes, and threw the remains into a fire. Count Tolstoi predicts a terrible famine in Eussia. He states that the rye liarVest is a partial and the oats an absolute failure. London November 20. Mr F. James, the Conservative member for Walsall. has been unseated, owing to his agents illegally purchasing and distributing cockades. No corruption was proved. The jury returned a verdict of insanity in the case of Mrs Maude, who committed suicide this week. She was the daughter-in-law of General Maude, formerly Equerry to the Prince of Wales. The Merchants' Exchange at Cardiff and other buildings have been burned, and great damage done, Paris, November 19 The city bankers are, it is alleged, paying a large sum to the Anarchists to secure exemption from attack in dynamite outrages. Tho Paris press assert that M. Floquet's Government blackmailed the Panama Canal Company before permitting it to issue lotteries, in order to provide a secret fund wherewith to oppose General Boulanger. M. Floquet denies the accusation. Count de Lesseps intends to resign the chairmanship of the company. The Countess has written to the Paris papers, asserting her husband's innocence. Noy ember 21. The Premier's victory re the Press Bill was only nominal, the Chamber modifying most of the stringent clauses. M. Ferroul, a Socialist, created quite a scene, as in the course of a violent speech, he commended the attempt: made to murder the Czar in 1884. The majority of the members of the Chamber were exasperated at this statement. France is expelling German Anarchists. Cholera has suddenly increased in Bessarabia. New York, November 20, A tornado destroyed the town of Washington, in Arkansas. An Irish Revolution Society has been formed in America to supersede the Clan-na-gael. Zanzibar, Noyernber 21. . Another Arab rising is feared in German East Atrica.