LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 214, 8 September 1893, Page 5

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, Friday, noon. The Home Rule Bill. Three hundred and fifty peers attended the House of Lords yesterday. Lari bpencer in moving' the second reading of the Home Rule hill said that dur'iio* the laso 87 years, on the average, one Coercion Act, or renewal thereof, haci been passed each year, while the sentiments feelings and customs of the Irish were; totally neglected. He urged the Lor ;s to cast aside prejudices and embrace this peaceful opportunity of conceding their demands, instead of reducing' the Irish to despair. The Duke of Devonshire contended that the .bill would arrest prosperity, enslave

the loyal minority and disunite the Empire, The Duke of Argyle delivered a brilliant and scathing speech declaring that Gladstone was the Mahdi of Home Rule. Lou! Ashbourne and the jVlnnpiis of Londondery also made powerful speeches on their side. Lord Playfair and Marquis’ Ripou replied to the attack on the Bill. 5. he Duke of Argyle said he did not blame Gladstone for his strong language, because he was purely fanatic. The Conn try expects and demands, h e sa id, that the Lords shall reject the Bill 'to enable it to consider the measure. Railway Calamity. A train going from Chicago to Cincinnati collided with a cattle train and six persons were killed and twentv injured. Xiie debt is caught tire and sevetal persons

: o pt:isUU3 were badly burned. A number of bulls es- ; Gaped and gored many of tue passengers A Strong- Demand The Trades Union congress at Belfast which represented nine hundred thousand men, by two thirds majority instructed Labour members in House of Commons to support collective ownership and control of all means of production and distribution. John Burns says instruction of Trades Congress reaches the keinel of social problem. Labour Riots. Miners riots have broken out t,n Aifreton, Derbyshire Troops have been despatched to reinforce the police, and the liiot Act lias ben read. Ciie men are still out in Llnelif and the. houses of several workers have been wrecked. ii-.ot.ing has taken place in Bairsdy, Yorkshire ; miners ill treated the manager of mines and wrecked Colliery offices. Limy also set fire to a coal train" and attempted to burn trucks on main luxe in order to cause accident. A baud of six hundred miners attacked men at weak au vY att s colliery, destroying books and machinery, and setting fire to coal heaps. The outrages were repeated at Manner’s -Uaiu colliery and the rioters then returned to Watt’s Colliery in a drunken state and burned down offices and rolled blazing tuns down the shaft. The police were I summoned and succeeded in dispersing the mob. lhe Coal strike ux South Wales is ended. Tlie Czar in Danger A conspiracy against the life of the has been discovered in Moscow ; eighty live students, eight professor?, and five ladies of nobility have been arrested in connection with it, Sale of Colonial Produce. Sir J 0. Bray in an interview respecting sale of colonial produce thought it would be found impossible to abolish mid die men ; Mr Percival, however, gave it as his opinion that providing a strong company was fortned the scheme might prove workableFatal Fire in Aucklandwoman named Agues Harvey was burnt to death at a fire in Nelson street yesterday morning. Gum Market. Poor ordinary, £BO to £32; Ordinary, £37 ; Good Ordinary, £42 to £43; hast Coast, £B7 to £BB. Supplies from Ist iust. to date, liG tons. Market continues dull. Produce. Oats, 2s Sd ; Maize, 2s 7d ; Butter, wholesale lOu, retail Is ; eggs, fid ajD