LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 89, 17 January 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. PBK PRESS ASSOCIATION). London. January 16The St. James' Gazette states the Duke of York's betrothal to the Princess May will be formally announced at an early date. The British Government claims a monoply of the pearl fishing on the J southern coast of Burmah, and has compelled au Australian firm to desist operations under a penalty of criminal prosecution. There is cold weather all over Europe. Hamburg is iced-bound, and skating has been renewed in England. The New Oriental Bank has paid a tinnl dividend of Is in the pound. The evicted tenants in Ireland threaten to commit outrages unless they are reinstated, j Washington, January 16. President Cleveland is urging upon the j Democratic leaders the necessity of repealing the Silver Act. Intense cold is being experienced iv the United States. In Missouri the thermometer was below zero for a month. A blizzard has devastated Irona, and many wrecks are reported on the west coast. Blame is sinking An accumulation of ice in the Ohio River is causing some distress, as supplies cannot be forwarded to district s along the banks. The authorities have ordered an attempt to be made to remove the obstruction by dynamite. Berlin, January 16. ' Herr Von Boetticher, Secretary of State for the Interior, speaking in the Reichstag, ridiculed the alleged distress uviGennany-, and refused State aid on the ground that both exports and wages are increasing. Speaking in the Reichstag, General Von Caprivi said that in the event of war the Balkan States would not be likely to assist Germany against Russia, though Russia is really their most dangerous enemy. Vienna, January 16. The Wiener Tageblatt says that Russia and France have agreed, in case of war, to each mobilise 600,000 men in six weeks. A report is current here to the effect that the Czarewiich is to marry the Princess Alice of Hesse, granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Brussels, January 16. News has been received that a trainload of dynamite exploded at Matadi on tne Congo, resulting in the death of .>0 persons, including many Belgian officers. Ottawa, January 16. The Canadian Government has resumed the levying of hostile canal tolls on American vessels. Hoso Kong, Jiiauarv 15. A batiJl of Chinese robbers who were raiding t-lio village of BLambi, set fire. to a temple, in which fourteen hundred villager?, consisting of men. women and childreu, were praying, all tho ininntes being burnt to de;ith. There is a great outbreak of small -pox in Shanghai. The Emperor of China has been attacked, but is recovering, and the tteirnApparent is ill. Tangier, January 15. The Governor of the prison in the city of Morocco is brutaflv using the Jews. The Powers will probably protest. Madrid, Januury 15. The Spanish navy is watching England's action with reenrd to Morocco. The Government fear that she may srek to establish supremacy in that country similar to her position in Egfpt.