LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 107, 28 February 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

i By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright PKB PBKBS ASSOCIATION). j LuMjon, February 20. , The Admiralty, in not accepting the , decision re the grounding of the H. M.S. , Howe, wnrr.3 oiiio6rs of Ilei lUMJosiy'H i , fleet to prevent Ivrnvy losses being sus- j tinned by the notion. _ ■ De Cobain'B cast 1 is being tried in camera. A Trustee and Committee of InspecI tion have been appointed in the estate of < the late l'hilip Vanderbyl, of the linn of Itedfern, Alexander and Co. The present liability amounts to £87,700 and the assets to £300, February 27. The Standard, in an article on the political situation, accuses the leaders of the Opposition of mismanagement and carelessness at the penornl election. It further states they wasted opportunities rvnd by Hlconceiveil tactics allowed the Government to gain ground both in the House and the country. Tho import of arms into Ireland has been prohibited, except undor spociul conditions. Brussels February 27. News received from tho Congo states that the Belgian expedition under Dhanish sent to punish the Arabs for the massacre of Major Hodester's expedition, have defeated the Arabs at Lomani and 500 prisoners including 6 chiefs were taken and 600 rifles secured. Zanzibar February 27. The expedition under Captains Jacques and Delcommes which it was feared were massacred, have arrived safely at Lake Tanganyika. They had a hot engage- , inent with the Arabs at Yambui.ya, in , which the Belgian Resident and his assistant were killed, but the Arabs were , routed, CoxsTANTiNor-LR, February 26. A serious fire has taken place in the 1 city. Three hundred houses were destroyed and three thousand people ren--1 dered homeless. The damage is estimated at a quarter of a million sterling. Sr. Pktkhsbubo, Februaiy 26 Twelve children have been frozen to 1 death at Kaluga, on the road to school. I New York. February 26 Judge Parker, of Kansas, asserts that ! there have been 25,000 murders committed in the United States since IBSB, , and that there has been a great increase in lynching. The strike of Chicago switchmen lias , collapsed. Washington, February 26. The United States Government insists on its claim that Russia ceded the Behring Sea along with Alaska. 1 Bouer and Knoll have been sentenced 1 to five years' imprisonment for abetting in the attempt on the life on Mr Frick, manager at the Homestead works. Zanzibar, February 26 1 Soden, who is necused of acquiring a fortune in East Africa by secret traffic in slaves, has fled to India. Arab slavers are raiding tho district north of Lake Nynssa. They captured 1 the inhabitants of a native village in an 1 ambush, butchered the men, and carried 1 off 200 women and children, whom they 1 afterwards speared when pursued by a force of white men. Rome, February 26. ! Fourteen Anarchists have been ar--1 rested in Rome for conspiring to blow up i the Pope at St. Peters. The memiers of the Chamber of De» putiss resent ttie appeal of the Pope, and 1 warn him that it is passible to deport 1 him for menacing tho State. 1 Belgbadb, February 26. The Russian Government is said to be i intriguing to unite Servia and Montcn- ' egro, and encircle the Balkan provinces.