LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 104, 21 February 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright PKB PHESS ASSOCIATION). London, February 20. Stewart, the official receiver of the English aud Australian Mortgage Bank, advises a searching enquiry should be made into its affairs. The liabilities are set down at half a million and the assets only three thousand. Rome, February 20. ! Six thousand people, half of whom were Pilgrims, including a thousand Enelish and Irish, attended in and around St Peter's on the occasion of the Papal jubilee. His Holiness officiated at mass, and gave his blessing strongly and clearly to Catholics, and to the members of the Royal Family. The Roynhsts have arranged a display to show attachment to the King with, the view of counteracting the recent greetings of the Popr. Sydnev, February 20. A man named Smedley to-day stabbed bis wife to death at Guirindi. This Day. A cyclone demolished three houses in the Tweed district. Destructive bush fires are again raging and causing heavy looses in crops, stock, and buildings. Pkrth, This Day. A squatter named Gloss, living near Northampton, shot his two daughters dead and poisoned himself because one of them, encouraged by the other, decided to marry against his will.