LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 135, 4 May 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright, PEU PEES:? ASSOCIATION). London, May 2. The Star says it is reported that the Duke of York was secreil.y married to the daughter of a naval officer daring his recent visit to Malta. In his will the lute Earl of Derby has left a million sterling to his widow, besides which he has bequeathed large legacies to other persons. Ma} 3. The American Consul in tho Bohring Sea arbitration insists on entire prohibition of scaling upon the shores of the disputed waters. The Lord Mayor, Mr Knill, presided over a meeting in the city protesting against Home Rule. A thousand merchants, shipowners, bankers, and leading citizens, inarched in procession from the Stock Exchange to Guildhall. As a proof of the extraordinary mildness of the spring, it is mentioned that strawberries grown in the open air in Cornwall are already selling in London. This is the earliest on record. The idea of amalgamating some oE tho Australian banks is much favored in the city. Sir E- Gray, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs m replj to a question said the Russian Government had promised to refrain from further operations in Pamirs , and to despatch no more troops thither ponding a delimitation by a commission. The Govern meut hoped tho question would be amicably settled. In the Honse of Commons, Sir Charles Dilke moved that the time h?d arrived when the Imperial Government should declare its intention with regard to Egypt. Mr Gladstone said the present position was one of extreme delicacy, and it would not be wise for the House to bind the hands of the Government in dealing with the question. Paris. May 3. The French pross condemns Gladstone's speech on the annexation of Egypt. News from Dahomey reports that King Behazin has offored to snbmit to the French, and negotiations are now going on as to a place of exile, to which he is to be deported. BEnLiy, May 3. Chancellor Caprivi, by reducing the number of men and also the amount of taxation, has efficted a compromise with the Centre Party over the Army Bill which is now likely to pass. St. Petersburg, May 3. Twenty-throe thousand poople are starving at Shadrinsk, in Asiatic Russia. They are living chieily on roots and grasses. Labourers' wages in the district are only five farthings a day.