IRISH-AMERICAN CONVENTION.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 43, 19 August 1895, Page 2

IRISH-AMERICAN CONVENTION.

THREATS AGAINST ENGLAND. ILLNESS OF THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA'S NEPHEW. REPUBLICAN RISINGS IN SPAIN. THE CHESS CONFERENCE. SELF-PROPELLED ROAD CAR. RI AGES. FREETRADE SUCCESSES. NEW ZEALAND IRONSAND. (Per Press Association). New York, August 17. At the Irish-American Convention fiOOO Irishmen, representing Pcunsylvauian societies were present. The Mayor of Pittsburg presided. Besides deciding upon physical force tho nieetiDg advised the formation of a secret service. A resolution was carried that a corps should arm in readiness to strike the hereditary enemy if a European war took place. Vienna, August 18. j The Archduke Francis Ferdinand, eldest nephew of the Emperor of Austria, is seriously ill with a pulmonary complaint. He is spitting blood, and his con ■ dition is critical. Madrid, Aiw. 18. A number of small Republican risings have taken place at Valencia and Castillon. The gendarmes had no difficulty in dispersing them. London, August IS. The Corean Reform Ministry has collapsed, and the leader of the reformers j has fled. He is accused of plotting with Japanese to sei/.c the King. Lasker beat Steinitz in the Chess Tournament. The Engineer offers a prize of a thousand guineas for a self propelled road carriage. The Statist urges Mr Chamberlain to terminate the commercial treaties with Germany and Belgium. Bishop Barry has been appointed Rector of St. James', Piccadilly. Mr Stewart his paid a fourth dividend of a shilling in the estate of the Federal Bank of Australi-i. At the annual meeting of t':o Cobdeu Club the Secretary reported the prospects of Freetrade iv New South Wales were highly encouraging, and there were better tokens of a reaction in Victoria than lor many years. Siemeu's offer to devote .£200,000 to establish works to treat New Zealand ironsand is conditional on the Government granting a bonus of £i per ton on the iron produced until the trade is placed on a firm foundation. Sir J. Farrar declines to make it. He declares Mr Chamberlain will fiud himself unable to depart from Lord Ripon's attitude on the differential treaties.