TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 395, 2 June 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOBBSON. > London, May 28. At the to-day 8900 bales were offered. The tone pf the auction was firm. ,' , Tricket and his trainer (ifelly) have started for New York. News is to hand from Ireland that serious riots have occurred at Mitchelstowu, in the County Cork. 12.000 (stc) peasants assembled there to oppose the service of writs for the ejection of some tenants, and upon the police arriving on the scene fighting of a very serious character took place. After much Woodshed on both sides the rioters were dispersed, and the evictions of tenants were finally completed.The Irish Land League is daily increasing its agitation throughout the country, and is showing signs that it will oppose any attempt to prohibit it meeting.

May 29. Rumors that complications are likely to arise between Russia and jGermany consequent upon the accession of Czar Alexander 111., are attracting attention throughout Europe; a growing coldness betwen the two couatnes being commented upon in diplomatic circles at the present time; Ma/ 30. At the wool auction to-day, 7800 bales we're offered t l?be tofte of the sale was firm.

Adelaide wheat, ex is at 495, and New Zealand wheat, 453. Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 48s 6(1. Australian tallow, best beef/ per cwtj s4s 6d ; beet mutton, 375. The Marquis of Hartingtofi, Secretary of State for India, has addressed a communication to the Times to the effect that th'efe is tlo foundation whatever for the statements recently published that a contention in the settlement of the frontier difficulty wrth Turkey has been signed by tlire Greek Government. The latter, Lord Hartington states,, has not up to the present agreed to tSw terms of the convention i Paris, May 28.

M. Gambetta made a speech tc-day r in the course of which he counselled a pacific policy, and said that order and peace were a necessity for the wellbeing of France, and ahcnlcl he rigidly maintained, CiLC&TTAj May 28.

Telegram* are to hand from Candaiiar stating that fighting has taken place at Ghirisk between bodies of followers of the Ameer, Abdur Rahman, snd Ayoub Khan. The latter is reported to be still at Herat. Berlik, May SO.

Prince Bismarck has presented a memorial to the Reichstag urging that

a subsidy be authorised to a line of steamers with a vinw to the extension of trade between Germany and Australia. «►__: _ AUSTRALIAN. Melbourne, May 81. Arrival—P. and O. Company's steam hip Bokhara, with tfie%rin--ward Suez m il, dated London, April 21st H.M.S, Bacchante will leave King George's Sound n*xt week, and will effect further repairs en her arriva[ here. Per M-ei chant Shipping and Underwriters' Association, London, March-28: —Arrived . Hurunui, ,hip, from Wellington (left Maicli 3rd); Canterbury ship, from Port Chalmers (left March* 20th). Svdxky, May 31. A telegram; has been- received from Woolongong, a- seaport about 60 miles' south of Sydney.- reporting that the barque Queen of Nations, of the White Star line, had been wrecked on a short distance' to the north of that place. The captain and all the crew except one seaman have been saved:- . The* vessel is bumping: heavily on- the sand,, and is expected to become-a total wreck.* She left London on February 25th, and was bound for Sydney.