LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, 17 June 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

.% By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PER FBRB9 ASSOCIATION). London, June 16 The Australian first innings closed for 142, and having to follow on fared Httl c better, only putting together 169. Sout h of England require only seven runs to win. The batting of the Colonials is described as poor. It is generally believed thnt the Australian cricketers will be decidedly unequal for a match against a combined English eleven. Captain Thos. Hope (Conservative) was elected for Linlithgowshire, in place of Peter McLngan (Liberal), who became bankrupt and had to resign. J. Morrogh, Nationalist member for Cork, has resigned. '11l is action is the outcome of a dispute between Messrs Sexton and Healey. Morrogh was a partisan of the latter. Lord Brassey succeeds Lord Wolverton, one of the Lords in» Waiting who resigned the position in consequence of a dispute with the Government over Home Rule. At the request of the Victorian Government, Sir M. Daries was arrested on tho arrival of die Salter at Colombo He will probably return by. the Rome, which leaves on June 19. In the mean while he will stay at a hotel, under police surveillance. His health is good, but he •uffercd severely from the bad weather experienced during the voyage. The band of the Coldstream Guards has been forbidden to play " House Ye, Ulster.'* It is reported that its author, who is an cx-enptain in the Gu ird.«, his been removed from the Commission of the Peace. The dady death rate at Mecca from cholera has reached 50 Mr Joseph Mncdonrdd, a New South Wales colonist, has given a donation of 1*25,000 to the Free Church of Scotland. Berlin, June 16. The German elections, so far, are re* marknble for the success of the Socialists, which is held to indicate the opposition of the Army Bdl. Paris. June 16. Owing to the drought and want of forage, French farmers are sacrificing and killing their cattle- The Government favour a spacial credit lo enable the Minister of War to have potted meats made lo a large extent from the French oxen. The import duties on forage have been suspended for three months. M. Turpin has invented a mitrailleuse capable of projecting I'JO.OnO missies a distance of tiro unlet in a quarter of an hour. The Court of Cassation has annulled the judgment en Charles do Lesseps, Fontaine, and Eiffel for fraudulent practices. The first has been released, but the two others will have to complete their sentences for corruption. It is expected '.hat Charles do Lesseps and Cottu will shortly be pardoned Washington. .June 16. In consequence of the reee t failures the Associated Tanks in America have mutually agreed, in cases i-f procure, to lend money up to 75 per o-iit of the m-irkel value ol apurnTed securitio*. St. PiTKHsKruo, June 15 A number of monks iv Moscow have been arreted owing to valuddts being discovered in their colls, also on a charge of roui >ving jewels from tbe -acred vestment*, and of cohabiting with women. They will le doported to S:beriii.