IRISH DELEGATES FOR AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 9476, 23 August 1892, Page 2

IRISH DELEGATES FOR AUSTRALIA.

London, August 22. Mr John Kedruond, M.P., has proposed to the party, of which he is the head, that delegates should be sent to Australia to collect funds on behalf of the evicted tenants in Ireland. ; BEET SUGAR PRODUCTION. Liclvt, sugar expert, reports that for i eleven months tho beet production has decreased 189,000 tons, and ho estimates the J campaign will show a decrease of 195,000 .tons. INFRINGEMENT OF PRIVILEGES. A crowd quietly removed four hundred yards of the railway line on the common lauds in Leyton, near London, as a protest against the infringement of tho privileges of the townspeople. DIRECT STEASIEU SAILED. The Rimutaka left Plymouth yesterday for Port Chalmers. Captain iSrreenslreet is in command. WORKMEN'S RIOT*. St Pkterskurg, August 22. A riot has broken out between the .workmen engaged at Hughes' Steel ■Factory, at Ekaterinsalon, and tho peasantry. The workmen's houses were .tired- and tho factory wrecked. The military were called out, and quelled the disturbance, but not before sevoral wero i killed. \ ' ' ,- CIIOLEKA RIOTS. Several of those connected with the cholera riots have been hanged, and a large number deported to Siberia. "RUSSIA ON AFGHAN BORDERS. Russia is colonising the Khoosja • .Valley, on tho Afghan border, and challenges the right of the Ameer to -occupy Shighnan.in the Pamirs. , SILVER DIFFICULTY IN INDIA. Calcutta, August 22. The clamour throughout India for the closing of the Mints to the coinage of- silver is increasing, and the refusal of the Government to indicate a remedy to avert danger has incensed all sections of the populace. 1 'RESIGNATION OF ARGENHXE • . PRESIDENT. Boenos Avkes, August 22. Owing to a dispute in Congress, the President Republic, Dr Carlos Pelligrini, has Resigned.