LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 72, 6 December 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

- — «*- By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (FEB FBESS ASSOCIATION). London, December 5. The newspapers publish thrilling details of a narrow escape the Atlantic steamer Spree (which hroke her shaft) had of foundering. The Mercantile Bank of India, with a capital of one and a half million pound 9 has been established. Owing to the improvement in the condition of affairs reported from South Africa, mining and land companys are being registered to operate in that coun* trj, The secretary of the Jewish Unemployed Committee asserts there are 15,000 in the East End without work. Some of them are so destitute that they tried to sell their children. Mr Gladstone was presented yesterday with the freedom of Liverpool. Immense enthusiasm was shown, Mr Gladstone said he believed the Manchester Ship Canal would be an enormous gain to Liverpool. Mr Nelson, one of the well-known firm of Edinburgh publishers, has bequeathed f 50,000 to a workmen's club in Edinburgh, and £20,000 to chanties in the same city. Calcutta, December 4. The loyal Chitrals assembled and dethroned the usurper. The forces at Fort White are restoring order among the Chins. The latter attacked a police patrol, killed three, aud seized their ammunition. Paris, December 5. The Anarchists threaten to destroy by dynamite the residences of the English Judges who heard the charge against the Anarchist Francois and ordered his extradition to France. All recipients of cheques from Baron Reinarch deny they were bribed. Mr Charles de Lesseps denied the statements that he had sent an emissary to members of the committee on the Panama Lottery Loan Bill offering them large sums of money to support the measure. St. JfBTEBSBUBO, December 5. Twenty three of those taking part in the cholera riots at Saratov have been sentenced to death. It is reported that France is supplying. Bussia with a million Lebel rifles. The Russian gunmakers are also increasing the output. Washington, December 4. The lowest estimate of Jay Gould's fortune is L 12,000,000. His death flattened the stock market, which, however, soon regained its firmness.