LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 86, 10 January 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

LEGAL JEALOUSY. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (PKK TRUSS ASSOCIATION'). London, January 9Four hundred ixnA eighty vessels, representing 850,000 ions, are lying idle at English and Scotch ports The Lancashire strikers have offered to meet the masters on Thursday with a view to a settlement of the dispute. Mr W. lledmond is again demanding an amnesty for all political prisoners, | and contends the national question cannot be settled until these men receive their liberty. Kiver Plate mutton is being sold in large quantities in Liverpool i\t 3jd. Mr tTenniker Iloaton states that tho reduction in tho postal rates has increased colonial letters 10 per cent and inland letters 3 per cent. Dr Graham has been committed for trial on tho charge of giving false certificates of death m connoction with the victims of Neill, tbo Lambeth poisoner. A dinug robbery was committed in the Strand in bioad daylight yesterday. A showcase, containing diamouds aud jewellery, which was on view outside a jeweller's shop, was removed bodily by a band of thieyes, who took matters so coolly that tho passers by imagined they wero bona fide workmen. There is no clue to the identity of the robbers. Mr J. Morley, replying to a deputation, said he houed Parliament would sanction the compulsory purchase of farms in the west of Ireland, To stay emigration by means of relief works had in the past proved to be false charity. Sir Julius Yogel welcomes tho decision of the New Zealand Government to establish State farms in various centres as they will encourage settlement, and declares that Europe, will watch with keen interest tho results of co-operative farming, as capable of the successful solution of her own difficulty. In view of the erictious at Bodyke, the tennants have barricaded the roads and stationed scouts on the hills. Armed police are patrolling the country to pro* tect the bailiffs in the execution of their duty. Mr Joseph Chamberlain declares that this griintiuu of autonomy to Ireland wiil compel the Imperial Government to give similar eovi-rnment to both Wales and Scotland, and thus destroy the Empire. Nkw Yokk. January 8It is stated that Sherman, a member of a Pari? secret society who neglected tho orders of tho society, was traced for ten years, and eventually murdered in Michigan, U.S. Murray, a colleague, has confessed to tho crime, Pamis. January 9 The Panama Committee are searching the Foreign Office for evidence. The French press shows some irritation at Sir J. West Hidgewny's mission to Morocco. Several nrrests have been made in Paris in connection with tho recent discov ry of infernal machines. A further general fall has taken place on the Bourse, nnd the fear of fresh reyclations is increasing daily. The general belief is that Baihaut is guilty of the charge of having been bribed, In future the police will attend all Anarchist meetings held in Funs, and be fully empowered to disperse the gatherings. Owing to the apathy displayed by the Comte de Paris, the Royalists .suggest that he should abdicate, and that the Due d'Orleans be chosen his substitute M. Biiihaut implicates President Carnot in the Pannm-i scnudals. Berlin, January 9. A quantity of dynamite was placed on the railway line of Dormunt, in West* phalia. and exploded shortly before the arrival of the Berlin Cologne express. The permanent way was destroyed, but no ouc w&s injured. Stockholm, January 9. The .Socialists carried a majority of the seats at the general elections, owing to the Tories abstaining from voting. Madrid, January 9. The Spanish Government decline to sanction the publication of the chart of Ferrol Harbor, prepared by the English officers, in connection with the enquiry into the loss of H.M.S. Howe. Calcutta, January 9 The agent of the Ameer is reported to bo paying a secret visit to the Russians on tho Upper Oxus. Brussels, January 9. A Belgian expedition, under Dhanis, has left Gasarabo to punish the Arabs for the massacre of Mujor Hodister's expedition. Romk, January 9. The Pope has begun the Jubilee celebrations, and blessed the Roman children, whom he decorated with medals. Vienna, January 9. Games of chance have been forbidden by the Vienna Jockey Club, owing to the increase of gambling among the nobility.