LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 73, 8 December 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (FRB PBES3 ASSOCIATION). London, December 7. Fifteen hundred delegates will be present tomorrow at a conference to con* sider the best means of dealing with the agricultural depression. Mr Justice Collins fined Sir Henry Tichborne, the High Sheriff, fire hundred guineas for being absent from the Winchester, Assizes. He is away shooting in Africa. The sales of Scotch and English cattle are the lowest for many years, and this is attributed to the overstock of New Zealand and American frozen meat. An unconfirmed rumour of a mercantile crisis in Melbourne or Sydney has greatly disturbed the C»ty ; A lawyer's clerk in Edinburgh named Alexander Smith was arrested on a charga of forging a large number of letters alleged to be by Burns, Macaulay, and Scott. Some had been sold at enormous prices. Heavy snow has fallen m Invernessshire and Monmouthshire, and railway communication is suspended. At the Smithfield Cattle Show the Queen secured first prizo for shorthorns. The Canadian athletes are making objections to Americans being allowed to compete in the Pan Britannc contests. < Mr Ashley Cooper, the original promoter of the competitions, proposes that the winners of the British and Colonial contests should compete against the Americans. Obituary— Dr Werner Siemens, the well-known electrician of Hanover, aged 76; also, Fred Leslie of the Gaety, actor of London. It is supposed that the fall in the Broken Hill stock was brought about in Sydney and Melbourne owing to one of the Melbourne banks throwing up on the market a large number of shares in the Proprietary Mine. St. .PfiTEBSBUBO, December 6. Several outrages by brigands are reported from Poland. One family of six was murdered and robbed in a village hotel. The murderers have been arrested. Madbid, December 6 Nine of the Xeres Anarchists were sentenced to imprisonment for life, and four to 20 yeai's solitary confinement. Calcutta, December 7. The Chitral tribesmen attacked a Cashmere regiment in the British camp at, Gor, but were repulsed with a loss of 50, and pursued for miles. Cairo, December 7. The Mahdi has sent a force to attack Kassala, and reinforce Osman Dioga, who is supposed to be meditating an attack on Tokar. Washington, December 6. The President, in his message to Congress, declares the prosperity of the country is unprecedented, and that wages were never so high, which he claims is due to Protection. The differences with Germany and England regarding Samoa had been ad* justed, and also the Behring Sea dispute.