LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 88, 14 January 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PKR PRESS ASSOCIATION). Paris, January 13. At the enquiry into the charges against the Panama Canal directors, engineers gave evidence that the scheme failed Owing to De Lesseps insisting upon a level j c anai. General Von Caprivi's speech in the German Reichstag has had the effect of depressing the French Bourse. London, January 13. The Morocco Government has signified its willingness to make reparation for the remainder of the British subjects. A daughter of President Harrison has visited Mrs Maybrick in prison. Mr Perceval, Agent-General for New Zealand, denies the Standard's statement with regard to the conversion loan. A conference between the cotton operatives out on strike and the inillowners has failed to effect a settlement of the dispute. Mr Jabez Spencer Balfour, ex-M.P., whose name was connected with the Building Society frauds, has been declared a bankrupt. By a tire which destroyed a spinning mill at Osaka (Japan), 125 girls were burnt to death. Berlin, J anuary 12. In his speech in the Eeichstag General Von Caprivi said that the sudden appearance of a Dictator in France would not surprise anybody. As to the Triple Alliance, it was not certain whether Germany would renew the agreement, but personally be was desirous of seeing the alliance renewed, as in the case of a European war Germany would be the subject of the first attack. Constantinople, January 13. A conspiracy to seize Cettmge, capital of iMonteuegro, and replace Prince Nicholas, by his eldest eon of Damlo Alexander, has been discovered. Some 3000 peasantry were concerned in the plot, which was promotfid by the priests. 3ovoruinent troops disarmed the rebels, 40 ot the latter boing killed and 90 wounded.