LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 74, 10 December 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (Pfiß PBE9S ASSOCIATION). London, December 8. Tn the City fears are expressed of a crisis in the silver market. The Indian Currency Association are urging Lord Kimberley, in yiew of the failure of the Monetary Conference, to protect the currency of India. Mrs Maj brick is reported to be dying from consumption, At the Agricultural Conference, Mr Chaplin, ex- Minister for Agriculture,said the losses incurred by landlords and tenants during recent years did not fall short of) 42 millions sterling. During 1891 produce shrank 77 millions in value, and stock also tell heavily. The causes were the foreign competition that had recently sprung up, and the rise in gold. He was in favour of partial Protection. The Fall Mall Gazette advocates placing the Australian railways under one authority, pointing out this would be imperative in case of war. It is stated that Captain Williams is still at his post in Uganda, his health having iniproyed. December 9. The Hon John Morley, speaking at Newcastle, said the Government would submit a scheme of Home Rule which Ireland ought to accept and England ought not to refuse. The outcry about the domination of Irish clericalism was all cant. The Daily Telegraph says a deluge of money is expected early in January, when very large loans will be paid on the market. A band of ten Moonlighters, in Kerry, nearly murdered an old farmer in the presence of his family. They gave as a reason for the assault that the old man was a land grabber. Washington, December 8. Mr Charles Poster, Secretary of the Treasury, states that thefe will be a surplus of two millions, and the Customs receipts will show a decrease of sis mil* lions. .1 sailor afflicted by religious mania committed suicide with a razor at the altar during Mass in a Baltimore church. He died immediately. Pabis, December 7It is reported that M. Bourgeois, the new Minister of Justice, has issued in si ructions for the arrest of the directors of the Panama Canal Company. M. Chevilliard, a clerk, declares M. Barbe, ex«Minixter of Agriculture, made him endorse and cash a cheque for 550,000 francs (L 22.000), and afterwards made him sign a letter denying he had cashed the Panama Company's cheque. Brussels, December 8. Information has been received that the survivors of Major Hodister's Ka> tanga Expedition have reached Stanley Fulls. They confirmed the report of the massacre of their leader and several other members of the party, and state that the Arab rising in the Congo district is spreading.