REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1033, 23 January 1880, Page 2

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. .: . London, January 21. It is .understood that the Home Rulers in the House of Commons have resolved to prevent work during the present session, with the object of obtaining increased attention to -State Affairs in Ireland. A terrible explosion occured to-dav at Leycett Cdliery, Staffordshire, 79 miners were killed. Berlin, January 21. 11 is stated here that Germany intends to acquire some of the South Sea Islands, in order to increase her influence in the Pacific. Dr. Richard Kraul, who has gone to Sydney, has been appointed ConsulGeneral of the German Empire for Australia. .. ♦ LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, January 21. The young French half-caste, who stuck up the station at Gippsland last Friday, has surrendered himself to the police. January 22. Parliament reassembled on Tuesday, and there was a scene and continued excitement in the Assembly. Strangers, were again excluded. Adelaide, January 21. The heat in this city to-day is intense, the thermometer registering 113 in the shade. Heavy bush tires are raging in the neighbourhood. Sydney, January 22. In the Legislative Assembly last night the Hon. Jas Watson, Colonial Treasurer, announced that the Government had no intention of proposing an additional tax in lieu of the intended excise dutieß on Colonial beer and tobacco, recently rejected or withdrawn. A meeting will be held at Newcastle to-morrow, to consider means to alleviate the distress existing amongst the miners in the district. An attempt was made to day by a mounted man to bail up some Chinese living near Gundagai. The matter was reported to the police, who are now in pursuit of the supposed bushranger. King George's Sound, ; January 21. Arrived—P. and O. Co.'s steamship Assam, with the inward December mails.