LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 82, 31 December 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION). Berlin, December 29. Eight thousand miners have struck at •Saarbruck, a town situated on the left bank of tbe river Saar. New York December 29 Fierce fightinit has taken place over the gold claims in San Juan, a county in i Sio, part of the Colorado. Eleven fatalities huve been recorded December 30, I Mr Rockfeller, head of the Standard Oil Company, and one of t'.ie most wealthy citizens in America, who in March last made a donation of L200.00U to tlie Baptist University of Chicago, has made an additional donation of the same amount to that institution* War is pending between Nicaragua and Costa Rica owing to a dispute over the boundary of Panama. News from Mexico states that General Estrada has joined the insurgents, and the latter are reported to have defeated 300 Government troops. London, December 29 The British Government are arming the Belfast night police with revolvers. The Council of the Colonial Institute are arranging with the public and middle class schools to give greater prominence to the teaching of colonial history and geography. December 30. At a meeting of the Channel -Tunnel Company to-day, Sir Edward Watkin accused the Hon J. Chamberlain of ruthless, tyrannical and abominable conduct in stopping works when he was President of the Board of Trade. It is reported that Archbishop Logue, of Armagh, will be created a cardinal instead of Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, because the latter failed to promulgate an important decision of the Pope in Ireland. Mr Michael Davitt, recently unseated for North Meath on the grounds of intimidation by the priests, has been asked to contest North-east Cork, for which constituency it is said Mr William O'Brien will shortly resign. The Prince of Wales, Lord Brassey, the Hon J. Chamberlain, Mr C. T. Ritchie ; (late President of the Board of Trade), and Mr H. Broadhurst, M.P. for Nottingham, are among the members of the Royal Commission set up to enquire into the question of making provision for the aged poor. The Times condemns tbe ex--1 elusion of members of the clergy of the Church of England from the commission, i Cabul, December 30. The Governor-General of Turkestan publicly thanked Col. Yanoft for his expedition to the Pamirs. Ottawa, December 30. Owing to the rapid circulation of old . notes the Canadian Government is issuing • additional Dominion notes to the value of twenty million dollars