LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 110, 7 March 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

3y Electric Telegraph.— Copyright , PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION). 1 London, March 6. i Turnbull, Martin, and Co. are about to [ itart a monthly line of steamers to New Zealand. They are building two fast 10,000 ton boats for the frozen meat trade. Lord Howard de Walden denied the jliargc of drunkenness, but admitted joxing his wife's ears for impudence, and wisted her arm. The Duke? of Portland testified that De Walden was a drunkard, md a mm of disgusting habits. The damage at Saudgate was due to the subsidence and rains, and was not the result of an earthquako as at first supposed. A largo part of the town is gradually slipping towards the sou, and this is attributed to the explosions m connection with the removal of a wreck ; 500 houses wero damaged and fifty families rendered homeless. A great mooting was hold in Dublin when prayers wore oflered against the adoption of Home Eule. Archbishop Plunkett, of Dublin, presided, and many leading Methodists and Prosbyteriaus were present. St- Peteusbubg, March 5. The Czar has suspended the expulsion of Jews, and is reported to be framing remedial measures Zanzibar, March 6. Sey Yid \li Bin Said, the Sultan, died to-day from dropsy. Two hundred and fifty men of the crew of H.M.S. Philomel- were sent ashore to guard the palace. Prince Kaled and his secretary entered the palace and attempted to bar the British Consul, M.i Rodd, from doing so. The latter had the Prince conducted to his own house and then proclaimed Prince Hamid Sultan, the ceremony passed ofl' quietly. Washington, March 5. Dempsey and Beatty were each sentenced to seven years' imprisonment in connection with the Homestead riots, Gallagher to five years, and Davidson to three. Paris, Mnrch 6. The Pope, in a letter addressed to a French Cardinal, says lie does not desire to interfere with the civil power, bnt asks that freedom in spiritual matters shall be allowed. Tangieb, Mnrch 6. Severe fighting: has taken place on the Morocco frontier, whom the natives are resisting tho building of forts by the Krnnrh.