LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 75, 13 December 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PBE PBEBS ASSOCIATION). London, December 12. The unemployed accuse Sir Vernon Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, of stating that he will not believe in the discontent until shops are looted and the docks tired. The Chronicle states the Government j will shortly adopt Imperial penny postage. The Nationalist newspapers in Ireland allege the Chief Secretary intends to release the murderers of Inspector Martin, in Donegal, in 1889. Tiui Healey was stoned in the vicinity of Eunis owing to his action oyer the East Clare election petition. The police are guarding him in Cardiff. The Irish National League have expelled Sir E. J. Reid, Liberal M.P., from membership. P. Esselmont, Liberal M.P. for East Aberdeen, having resigned, another election took place, which resulted in Mr Buchanan, Liberal, defeating Col. F. Russell, Unionist, by a majority of 1326. Cairo, December 12. It is reported that the Mahdi is collecting forty thousand troops to attack Egypt in the spring. Eomk, December 12. Several European sovereigns will make gifts to the Pope on the occasion of his jubilee. Ottawa, December 12. The Canadian officials have collected and are forwarding to the Imperial Go» vernment evidence that Americans are becoming officious, and harassing the sealers in the Bearing Sea. Copenhagen, December 12. Five dwellings in Copenhagen were destroyed by fire, and six persons, including three childrtn, burned to death. K bw Yobk, Deeembei 1 12. The adoption of the eight hours system has added 15 per cent to the cost of public works in the United States. Washington, December 11. Bourke, one ofj the murderers of Dr Cronin, at l hicago, is dead. Paris, December 11. 1 bunker named Obendoerffer deposed to receiving three and a half million francs as commission for issuing Panama lottery bonds, and joining the guarantee j syndicate. Baron Eeinnch's body has been exhumed and identified, showing that there i is no truth in the story of a fictitious Funeral.