TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 407, 30 June 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, June 25

There is at the present time much agitation in commercial circles throughout England against the proposed intention of the French Government to increase the duties imposed on British goods. The determination dc'ays negotiations for the renewal of the AngloFrench Commercial Treaties, and public feeling against their renewal, without a reduction ot the French import duties, is increasing daily.

June 26

Intelligence has been received that a rising has commenced among the natives employed on the plantations at Kirwani, Senegambia, on the West Coast of Africa. Some excesses have already been committed against the planters, and a general panic has con sequently arisen among the European settlers in the district, many of whom are leaving. Telegrams are to hand reporting that a terrible disaster has occurred in Mexico. A train conveying a number of passengers was precipitated into the river Cimtila, anl over two hundred persons were drowned. June 27. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, is at 5Us ; New Zealand wheat, 47; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 44s ; Australian tallow, best b>ef, per cwt, 35s 6d ; best mutton, 37s 6d. Paris. June 25. The death is announced to-day of M. Jules Aufaur, the French politician, at the age ot 88. AUSTRALIAN. Melbodrnk, June 27. Mauritius advices to the 17th inst. report tint the present season's crop is expected to be an average one. Late engagements for the colonies are slight. Sydney, June 27. Two fresh cases of smallpox were reported to the authorities to day from Surrey Hills, The sufferers are another child of the carpenter, Edward Rous, who died of the disease on the 16th, and her mother. The house and all the inmates are still kept in strict quarantine in eider to prevent any probability of the disease spreading. The steamship Ocean, with 480 Chinese on board, did not proceed to Melbourne, but has entered Port Jackson. She was at once quarantined, and it is expected that she will not be released for forty-two days. Brisbane, April 28. Government has wired to the Agent General to arrange to send emigrants every mail by the British India Company's steamer to Cooktown, Townsville, Mackay and Rockhampton. Instructions have also been sent to send 4000 emigrants annually by sailing vessels, instead of 2000,