TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. LATER EDITION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7409, 2 November 1892, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. LATER EDITION.

127 xlbctmo tblbqbaph.—goptblqbt.-\ [Special to Fbsss Association.] LONDON, Nov. 1. The Dynamiters. The American Government is urging the release of Gallagher and other dynamiters. Home aule. The Cabinet is at present discussing the Home Eule scheme. It is reported that Lords Rosebery and .Kimberley and Sir W. V. Harconrt claim that the Queen should have the power of vetoing, on the advice of the Imperial Government, the laws passed T)y the Irish Parliament. The Bon mania. The survivors of the JJoumania make serious charges of negligence against the officers of the vessel. Atlantic Liners Overdue. Two Atlantic liners are a week overdue, and some uneasiness is felt for their safety owing to the recent severe gale. Police Barracks attacked. The Balrinadrimma £?] police barsaoks have been attacked. Two policemen, a woman and a child were murdered. Lieutenant Crosbie. Lady Mabel Satton informs a society paper that she jilted Lieutenant Crosbie because he required the bulk of her fortune to be settled on himself- She has issued a writ for £75 lent to Crosbie after the Ascot meeting. Another Jewel RobberyCase. An action, Leader v. South, for th« recovery of jewels, is being heard in the Queen's Bench, and is exciting much attention, in consequence of its remarkable similarity to Mrs Osborne's case. The Cholera. There has been no fresh cholera at Hamburg for a week but ten deaths have occurred at Buda Pesth, and tike plague is seriously increasing at Lublin, in Poland. PABIS, Nov. 1. Melbourne Criticised. A French globe-trotter, named Max Beule, writing to Le Correspondent, a Paris paper, describes the Melbourne people as a light and frivolous race, not . destined for great things; although Melbourne, he thinks, will eventually become the capital of an independent Australia. Dahomey. The French troops have agam routed the Dahomey army, capturing

the defences on the river Kato and encamping close to Kano. j * 5 BERLIN, Nov. 2. A Gorgeous Pageant. The Emperor and the Empress of Germany and the Duke of York took part in the ceremony of the re-con-struction of the restored Schloss Zirche at "Wittenberg, containing the tomha of Luther and Melancthon. There was a gorgeous historical pageant in honour of the occasion. r YOKOHAMA, Nov. 1. The Bealinsr Question. The Japanese Government is mak- ! ing arrangement to seize sealers ' caught within her waters. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1. "The Bells.'* # Edward Livermarsh, a journalist, of San Francisco, is being tried i for murder at Santa Rosa. Ha j was hypnotised in Court and reenacted the crime in detail, to the ' I astonishment of the Court. The defence is that he committed the crime while in a hypnotic condition. [During his last season Mr Walter Bentley played The Bells, a play in which the criminal is mesmerised in Court and re-enacts the details of his crime. . This seemß to have been imitated in the American Court. That the defence is genuine is very doubtful.] SYDNEY, Nov. 2. The Broken Hill Strike. At » meeting of the surface and underground branches of the Minerß' Association at Br )ken Hill, the former decided it wbb inadvisable to declare the strike off, while ♦he latter expressed confidence in the Defence Committee, leaving it for them to Bay whether or not the strike should be declared at an end. Railway Returns. During th<3 past few weeks the railway revenue returns have not been satisfactory. The returns for last week showed a decrease of .£21,000 sb compared with the corresponding week of the previous year. The Commissioners are instituting strict economy in working the railways. Smuggling, The Customs authorities made an important seizure of a shipment which was supposed to be tea, but which was found, on investigation^ to consist largely of opium and tobacco. HOBART, Nov. 2. Sir R. G, Hamilton. The Marquis of Ripon has cabled to Sir R . G. Hamilton, granting him leave of absence during the remainder of his term o.{ office as Governor. Sir R. G. Hamilton leaves for England next month, and ib is understood that he will confer with Mr Gladstone as to the details of the Home Rule scheme.