LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 81, 29 December 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION). Buenos Aykes, December 28. The rebels in Corrientes Province iiave, on two occasions, defeated the GovBrnment troops. London, December 28. The steamer Islam, bound from Cardiff , to Bombay, has gone ashore at Cape ; Trafalgar, on the Spanish coast, and it is feared she will become a total wreck. The crew were saved. The loss is estimated at £70,000. The Atlantic liners arrive covered with ice and with their compasses frozen. The steamer Nordland broke down during the gale and was drifting helplessly about the ocean when her position was observed by a passing steamer and she was towed into Queenstown. Severe weather has been experienced throughout England, and many skating accidents are reported. Seven persons were drowned at Rochdale and four at Wanstead Park through ice breaking. BThe total amount of money impounded in connection with the • missing word com petitions is L 44.000. New York, December 27. Ths Cunard liner Urnbria is two days overdue, and grave anxiety for her safety is felt owing to the severe gales reported in the Atlantic Ocean. i Bishop Porter to-day laid the corner stone of the Episcopal Cathedral in New York. The cost of the building is estimated at a million and a half dollars, and will contain seven chapels, each with a distinct language. St. Pbtebsbubg, December 27. A terrible famine is being experienced in North Finland, and the only food hundreds of the poorer class hare to subsist on is bread mixed with powdered bark. The Russian Government is making only meagre efforts to relieve the distress, and it is stated that fully two thousand are in quite a destitute condition, It is reported that cholera is raging in the Caucasus provinces, and that hundreds of deaths have taken place during the last fortnight. Pabisj December 27. There was a great gathering at the Sorbonne to day to celebrate the 70th birthday of M. Louis Pasteur. President Carnot. several members of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, as well as a number of foreign representatives of science attended. Adelaide, This Day. While the mails by the Oruba were being fumigated on Monday a portion of them caught fire and a number of packages were destroyed before the flames were extinguished.