LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 125, 11 April 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

« DISASTERS IN AMERICA— GREAT DESTRUCTION op PROPERTY. THE COMMERCIAL BANK of AUSTRALIA. THE HOME RULE BILL. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. ' PKU PEEBS ASSOCIATION ). j Ni?w Yor.K, April 10. j A tidal wave in the Chicago river tore j thirty vessels from their moorings. The j district w&a also visited by ft blizzard, which destroyed two monster hotels, and levelled tho panorama buildings to the ground. An awful prairio fire is raging in the vicinity of Omaha city, Nebraska. Fifteen miles of country have already been devastated, and the fire is now travelling at the rate of forty miles an hour. Several villages are in its path, and the inhabitants are in a state of terror, despairing of being able to savo their homes. London, April 9 The feeling in Glasgow among the depositors in the Commercial Bank is favourable to the reconstruction. The total amount of the Glasgow deposits is about a million sterling, but there are only four shareholders in the city. The leading English and Scotch journals continue to discuss the affairs of the bank, the opinions: expressed being conflicting, but in the main favourable. Spencer Ualfour. ex-M P . is in Buenos Ayres, and Mr George ttowell, lnmnb-T for Belhnnl Green, is asking the authorities to expedite his capture The shipping trade at Hull is entirely suspended. All the dockers, seamen, and firemen have struck. The Unionists attacked the hands engaged in unloading the steamers, but were repulsed by the police at the point of the bayonet. The naval authorities have been asked to send gunboats to Hull to protect the shipping interests. Mr Wilson, the shipowner, his declined to dismiss the noil Unionists, faying he would prefer to remove his vessels from the port. April 10. Two gunboats have arrived at Hull to protect tho docks and other property in case of an attack. London, April 10. Eight thousand stand of arms have been landed in Ulster, where 44 corps are drilling in secret. Stones were thrown at Mr Balfour as he was returning from Lord Ivcagle's (?), hitting some of the occupants of the carriage. Reinforceincuts of police are to be sent to Belfast. Lord Houtfhton, Viceroy of Ireland, hns issued a proclamation restricting the importation of arms into the country. WASfTINOTOX, .April 9. A wing of the Clan rm-Gail party, which follows Devoy owing to dissension in the society, and tho introduction of tho Ifonio Rule Bill, has decided to abandon revolutionary methods and join the Irish National Federation. April 10. It is rpporfed here tint Selimid', iho ] Goyernorof rhe Marshall Island*, intends to deport t!ic American missionaries Calcutta. April 10. The Russians hive penetrated from Murguthab river into the Wakhan district, west of the VamirsJ, abutting on the British political frontier. They have ordered the Afghan commander to surrender Kntnprwijnh, fi to\wi on a tributary of the Oxus, and frontier fighting is feared. Caiko. Apiil 9. Turkoy is indignant at Lord Cromcr's treatment of tho Khedive, and has sug gested that bo should be recalled. The anti European feeling is spreading in Egypt, find is being fanned by tho Ministry, who are blocking all reforms. Yiknna. \pril 10. Several severe shocks cf earthquake have beon experienced generally throughout Huugary and Servia. llousos collapsed, and many people were killed. Tho damago is estimatod at several milhou francs. Paris. April '.). If a company is formed to complete the Panama Canal by October of next year, the Colombian Government will allow it 10 years to finish the work.