TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 170, 20 August 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. Loxdox, August 13. The Pope is sick and restless. Taafe is to be President of the Austrian Ministry. It is believed Fuat hop crop will prove a total failure. The new advance on Ulundi has commenced. The chiefs interviewed Sir G. Wolseley. August 14. A conference of the delegates of some 200,000 miners, held at Manchester, resolved to encourage emigration. The Dominion of Canada offers to defray the expenses of delegates of English farmers to Canada with a view to emigration. The iron trade is reviving The total reserves of notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £21,125,000. News from the Capo to the-29th of July has been received. The re-advance of the two British columns was ordered to take place on the 3rd of August, to rendezvous at Magdibonium, near Ulundi, on August 6. p" , ,

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Sydney, August 15. The cholera is very prevalent. General Grant received a royal reception from the Mikado. Pollio,’ an outsider, is hacked £7OOO to £l4O to win the Cup. Democrat is being hacked at 100 to 4, and is likely to supplant the blew Zealand norso 11' Loup, who remains firm at 100 to 5. 1000 to IjO is booked against Darriwell. The following are the particulars of the Lancofiold Rank robbery The accountant had barely opened the doors when the affair occurred. Tie manager was in the garden, when two persons suddenly entered it and thrust revolvers into his face, and told him to bail up or lie would bo shot dead. lie returned inside, and one of ilm bushrangers seized him and gagged him, and proceeded to search for’eoin, ’ ut <v ly y>! the loose cash and immediate 1 v lO'eauino.;. Tie' muico insist that it Xed Kelly and Sk-vo Hart, but this die accountant doubts.