LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 23, 27 July 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

_ _-% By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (PBB PBBSS ASBOCATION.) London, July 25. The World says that at the instance of the Marquis of Queensbury, the Queen has remonstrated with Mr Gladstone for raising Viscount Drumlaurig to the peerage over his father's head. Dr John Kae, the Arctic explorer, is dead. July 27. Arrived, the ship Pleiades, from Lyttelton, April 29. The barque Waimea, bound from Wellington to Boston, which put into Bio de Janeiro on May 10 for medical assistance in consequence of a number of the crew having been injured by an explosion, having completed necessary repairs, has resumed her voyage. I The ship Wellington, bound from Picton to London, has put into Bio de Janeiro having been partially dismasted through a collision. News has been received that the Maharajah pf Taitaibraga has committed suicide at Brindisi owing to the theft of his jewels. The libel action brought by Mr J. Wilson, secretary of the Seamen's and Firemen's Union, against the proprietor of the London Evening News, claiming £1000 for accusing him of recklessly expending the funds of the Unjon, concluded today. The jury found that the comments of the paper were fair and reasonable, and returned a verdict for the defendants with costs. Cardinal Moran, of Sydney, is improving in health. He has been suffering from an affection of the lungs. His eminence returns to the colony shortly. The Durham miners demand an increase of 15 and the Northumberland miners of 16£ per cent. A young woman named Golding alleges that poisoning and immorality are practised in ten convents. A commission, composed partly of Protestants and partly of Roman Catholics, is enquiring into the charges. Among the Commissioners are Cardinal Vaughan, the Duke of Norfolf and Dr Guinness. It is reported that the Emperor of Germany and the Prince of Wales intend to race the Meteor and the Britannia at Coweß next week, each captaining his own yacht. Miss Shaw, in the Times, says there is a wide field in the colonies for experiments in land settlement, without the danger of encouraging pet theories. At a meeting of the members of the House of Commons interested in Imperial Federation, resolutions adverse to suspending propagandism were carried. Capetown, July 25. The De Beer's Mining Company, of Kimberley diamond field, has just sold to a syndicate stones of the yalue of £1,000,000. Nrw Yobk, July 25. - : Insurgent steamers on Lake Leon fired 30 ahelU into Managua. Only two per« sons were killed, but the buildings of the town were greatly damaged. St. Petbbsbubg, July 26. The oholera is increasing in Russia.