LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 109, 4 March 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright FEB FBEBS ASSOCIATION). Loudon, March 3. Mr Gladstone, replying to a deputation on the eight hours' question, said that until the miners were unanimous there wonld be little cbance of Parliament legalising compulsory limitation of the hours of labor. Lord Howard de Walden is suing for divorce from bis wife. Two co-respond-ents are joined in the suit. Lady de Walden, on her part, applies for judical separation on the grounds of gross cruelty, drunkenness, and personal assaults. The evidence is expected to be very sensational. In his match with Peall, Roberts made a spot-barred break of 737, beating his previous record of 690 in 1880. March 2. The Conservatives nre favouring Lord Randolph Churchill as their leader in preference to Mr Balfour. It is reported that Australian Orange men are supplying funds to the Ulster men. At a great Orange meeting hfdd at Belfast speakers referred to the numer ous assurances that had been received from military and police officers of high rank who were ready to assist iv the defecne of Ulster, which they declared was worth shedding blood for. The audience took a public oath on tho Bible to resist th<* Home Rule proposals even to the length of fiiihting. Lord Rosebery defended the expan* sion of the empire, on the ground of the necessity ot Dogging out ciaims for the future, remembering that it was the aim of our race to mould the world according to Anglo-Saxon ideas. Capetown, March 3. The Ruahine has arrived at Capetown. New York, March 2. Severe floods bave been experienced in Guatemala, and sis villages nre submerged. About one hundred lives were lost. Berlin*, March 2. The Emperor, speaking at Brandonberg, reiterated that his belief was unshaken that be was entrusted with a mission hy God, and he was confident that he would succeed in satisfying all.