LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 108, 2 March 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

MONSTER MEETING IN BELFAST. OPPOSITION TO HOME RULE. DISASTROUS FLOODS IN HUNGARY. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION). I London, February 28. The Danube overflowed its banks in Hungary with such rapidity that villages were submerged in a few minutes, and ' many families were drowned. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Ruahine, which left London for Auckland on February 4, has arrived at the Island of St. Helena. The Captain reports that the cargo caught fire, and it was found necessary to flood the hold to extinguish the flames. At a meeting of shareholders in the New Zealand Mortgage nnd. lnvestment Association, the Chairman said it had been ascertained that there would be no need to wind up, as the value of lan 1 wus improving. Great Britain will complete tho construction of 26 war vessels this year. The miners' delegates have agreed to a national stoppage of work. The price of coal is rising in oonseqnence. A caucus of llio Conservative Party has determined to obstruct the Government Bills. Mnrch 1. In the House of Commons, Sir H Meysey-Thompson, member for Handsworth, moved a resolution in favour ol bi metallisru. Mr E. W. Beckett.Jmember for Whitlov, moved a negative amendment, which was carried by 229 to 148. Mr Gladstone, who took part in the debate, said the Government had no scheme for remedying the divergence in the value of gold and silver. Mr B&lfour, Mr Goschen and Sir Henry James voted with the minority, while Mr Chamberlain, Lord Randolph Churchill, and members of the anti»Pnrnellite section supported the negative amendment. At a meeting of 15,000 citizens of Belfast is was resolved to resist Home Rule if the Bill passed. Great enthusiasm was shown, the audience singing the National Anthem. Tho Irish constabulary are to bo pensioned iv tho event of Home Rule being earned, Members of the Opposition are quarrelling owing to jealousy of Lord Randolph Churchill. The Archbishop of Canterbury recommenls the readinvr of a special collect for the sth, lGth, or 22nd, in view of Home Rule, but refuses a special prayer. Nkw Youk. February 28. Mr Gordon Mackay, a millionaire, has given a donation of £400,000 to Harvard University. An epidemic of typhoid fever has broken out in Chicago, and is assuming alarming proportions. The outbreak is attributed to sewer gas. St. l'KTKn<ncno, February 28. The Novoe Vermy.v says th.it M. Ferry aims at an alliance; between France and Germany, and is unfit to be trusted with power. Washington, March 1. The Senate has refused to hold an execnlive session to consider the treatment (?) of Hawaii. This virtually shelves the treaty of annexation suggested by the President.