LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 79, 22 December 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. > (PEE PEESS ASSOCIATION). St. Pbtebsbubg, December 19. Ueporfcs from Moscow prove that two \ years' persecution has led to 18,000 Jewi being converted. Ottawa, December 19. Mr Mercier, ex-Premier of Quebec, declares that the Catholics and French residents in Canada are undergoing op« pression, owing to jealousy, and states that it was similar treatment which caused the Papineau rebellion in Mont real in 1837 by a bodj called Fi!s de la Liberte He ureed those suffering from oppression to demand the rights con« ferred on them by the Constitution. Washington, December 19. Enquiries made by a New York paper show that 168 Democrats in Congress favoured the repeal of the M'BLinley Tariff, while 94 proposed a special session. London, December 19. The will of the late Lord Tennyson has been lodged. The estimate is valued at £57,000 realty and £2500 personalty. New Yobk, December 20. A syndicate in Colorodo sold a Dutchman 15,000 acres, and pretended it was an act of patronage to his Government. Eight hundred Dutch people emigrated there, but found the whole thing a swindle, and that the Government were merely offered the option of purchase. Many of the new arrivals are in a destitute condition, and the public are subscribing a loan to assist the settle* ment. The New York Exchange is excited, and half a million shares have been sold.