THE LATEST

Colonist, Volume XXIV, Issue 7110, 7 September 1891, Page 4

THE LATEST

Received September 7, at 2 a.m. MURDER AND REPORTED MURDERS AUXILIARY FLEET. AFFAIRS IN CHILL CRISIS IN HAYTI. POSTMASTER-GENERAL. CORRUPTION IN CANADA. FATAL EXPLOSION. ANTWERP WOOL SALES. WHOLESALE LETTER STEALING. TRADES UNION CONGRESS. THE REVO. H. SPURGEON. THE BRITISH NAVY. OMNIBUS EMPLOYEES. TYNE SHIPBUILDERS. SMOKELESS POWDER. A SECRET TREATY. i AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. A FALSE REPORT. SEVERE STORMS IN PARIS. MOUNT BLANC OBSERVATORY. POLICY OF THE TURKS, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LONDON, September 5. The Antwerp wool sales closed fiat ; 8000 bales of Australian wool were sold at from *d to |d per lb below the prices realised at the close of the last wool series in Lou don. The situation in the manufacturing districts and on the Continent is very bad. Rhodes, employed as a sorter in the London Post Office, has been arrested on a charge of stealing two thousand letters, from which he abstracted in the aggregate a sum of £2000 as well as a large number of cheques and ; post office orders. j Mr T. Burt, M.P , Secretary of the Northumberland Miners Association, will preside at the Trades Union Congress, which opens at Newcastle on Tyne on Monday. Alexander Jacques, faster, has completed 35 out of his proposed 50 days fast, and keeps very well. A congress of colliery managers has carried resolutions strongly opposing the statutory eight hours work in mines. The Rev C. H. Spurgeon, who had been gradually regaining strength from his recent severe illness, has suffered a relapse. In connection with the visit of the French fleet, the Admiralty stopped leave of the crews on her Majesty's ships at Spithead, and neatly provoked a mutiny. The position became very serious, but eventually the Admiralty yielded. There is renewed agitation among the employees oi the Omniboß Companye, and a strike ia threatened. It is alleged that the Gompanya are infringing the agreement arrived at on the close of last Btrike. The Tyne ship builders have decided to rednoe, in October, the wages of 10,000 men by 6 per oent. The military manoeuvres of the Austrian and Frepoh soldiers in Vienna and Paris repeotively show that smokeless powder will come into nee extensively in the field. Balloons, telephones, semaphores, and revolutions! taotios were also 'practised. The 'Standard's ' Constantinople correspondent reports that Turkey has entered into a Efcret treaty, affeoting Bosnia and Egypt. The Austrian and German newspapers are' very indignant at the diplomatic victory of Russia in Turkey, and demand similar rights respecting the passage of the Dardanelles for other powers. They request that England should take the initiative in the matter. PARIS, September 5. The reported accident to a train conveying troops to the manoeuvres is incorrect. During severe storms in this city several persons were drowned. The sewers being flooded is causing thousands of rats to invade the houses. POST AU PRINCE, September 6. A crisis is pending in Hayti, and General Hippolyte, the President, has strongly garrisoned the seaports. . The Duke of Rutland has provisionally accepted the vacant portfolio of PostmasterGeneral. OTTAWA, September 5. The Hon G. R Foster, Minister of Finance, is aeooßed ol corrupt practice in subsidising the West Indian Steam Ship Company. CHICAGO, ■.■':*■■■■■ September 5. An explosion of twenty tons of dynamite at, White Pigeon, in Michigan, destroyed a factory and killed 16 persons. VALPARAISO, ■':'■■'■'■ Septembers. The Junta legalises the notes issued by President Balmaceda, but confiscates the Bank accounts of the Loyalists in order to meet such notes. The Insurgent army is being disbanded, and the censorship estab.

lished over telegraphic messages is being removed. The whole country is tranquil. Mr Patrick' Egan, United States Minister to Chili, who has been accused of siding with the Congressionalists, expresses anxiety for Congress to enquire. into his action, and denies. the charge of partisanship. - BERNE,- : / .■ ■« " ■ : September 5. ' It is now explained that the proposal to erect an observatory on the top of Mount Blanc has been abandoned, as the proposers were unable to find a rock for its foundation. ST. PETERSBURG, September 5. mx Arnold TVhite, representative of Baron I Hirsch, has had a satisfactory interview with the Czar relative to the Baron's proposals in connection with his conipatriots. A sensation has been caused in Warsaw owing to the preparations which are being made to concentrate a large force within a fortnight. The reason of the mobilisation is not known. A Russian Commission is preparing an elaborate commercial treaty with Servia, and is arranging to establish a Consulate in that country. CONSTANTINOPLE, September 5. The resignation of Kiamal Pasha, the Turkish Prime Minister, has resulted in a ohange of policy in Turkey, which has hitherto leaned towards the Triple Alliance. It is believed that the Sultan was much impressed by the reoeption accorded to the French fleet at Cronstadt. SIDNEY, September 6. News from the Solomon Islands and New Guinea states that a trader named Gunderson has been murdered and his store looted by the Natives of the first mentioned Island, and that at New Guinea a report was current, but not confirmed, that two missionaries and a Native teacher had been killed. The auxiliary fleet arrived yesterday, but there was no official reception. At Tattersall' meeting yesterday, the Spring handicap, 1$ mile?, was won by Rover, Lancer 2nd, Bustier 3rd.