THE LATEST.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 139, 16 May 1891, Page 2

THE LATEST.

London, May 15. A reyolt has broken out in Dutch Guinea of an alarming nature. The lower classes are rebelling against the domination of the upper class. The rise in the Bank rate of discount is ; due to the expected withdrawal of gold, to ! the value of £3,000,000, by Kusaia in June. The French warship Seignelay was I stranded on a sandbank off Jaffa, on the I Levant coast. Her position was supI posed to be hopeless, but Lord Charles Beresford, who commands the TJndaunted, ran a hawser half a mile out in the teeth of a gale, and extricated the ship after 52 hours' work. Mrs Donkin Birtmore has been found dead on Bettwskowd Mountain, in Wales, with, her head battered in. Her husband who was arrested on a charge of committing the murder, has confessed to the crime. Mr Gladstone is improving. While Mr Parnell was addressing a meeting at Limehouse, London, a hostile mob attempted to gain entrance to the building. The outcome was a row, in which blood was spilt. Calcutta, May 16. The Manipuris who were tried for the murder of Commissioner Quinton. Lieuts. Skeue and Simpson, and Mr CossinOj were sentenced to be beheaded by thepublic executioner. Washington, May 14. The Italian Cousul at New Orleans claims that he is preventing the Italians from killing the Mayor, Lawyer Parkinson, who headed the mob, and other leading lynchers.