LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 84, 5 January 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION). London. January 4. Sir W. V. Harconrfc, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr A. J. Mtinrlella, President of the Board of Trade, will receive on the 25th instant an important deputation (including the Agents-General of the colonies) in favor of the decimal system in respect of the coinage and weights and measures. The river Seine, in France, and the Thames are frozen in many places. At Market Harboro, sixteen miles south of Leicester, a cricket mutch was played on the ice, and there was heavy scoring. Great Britain agrees to guarantee; Italy the cost of the transport of the Brindisi mails to the extent of .£20,000. Delegates representing three hundred thousand members of the miners federation of Great Britain will discuss the eight hours question at Birmingham on Monday. The statement that the Irish police are being disarmed is officially deniod. It is reported that Mr Gladstone proposes to reduce the Irish tribute under Homo Rule from l'loth to I'lSth on condition that there shall be tt'J Irish members of the House oi: Commons. Nkw York, January 3. A conspiracy to at» x n\ the body of the la'e J:iy Gould has been discovered, the plan of the thoives being lo tunnel into the vault. The tomb, to which electric alarms have been attached, is now guarded night and day by two watchmen. Pakis, Jnnuary 3. The arrest of four members of the Chamber, including a former Minister, on charges of bribery, has been sanotioned. Prince Waldemar, of Demark, the Czar's brother-in-law, is reported to be a candidate for the French throne in the event of the overthrow of the Republic,