TELEGRAMS.
ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Nov. 12
News is to hand from Sicily announcing that a disastrous explosion has occurred in one of the sulphur mines in that island, resulting in the death, of fully fifty miners. The police to-day made an important seizure of arms and documents belonging to Fenians, at Bradford, in Yorkshire. Constantinople, Nov. 13. M. Novekoff, Russian Ambassador, has issued a further communication to the Porte in reference to the consideration of the question of the payment of the Russian war indemnity. M. Novekoff now states that the Russian Government is willing to modify its recent demand, and agrees that the claims of forc’gn bondholders’ delegates shall receive priority in recognition over the question of the payment of the war indemnity.
AUSTRALIAN. Melbourne, N>\.ls. Private London telegram report a rise of lOs in sugar. Sydney, Nov. 14. 'I he outbreak of smallpox is now sensibly decreasing. Nov. 15. Ncw-i has been ’’cceived that the schooner Henrietta, 29 tons, of this t ort owned by Mr \V. J. Passhelj, has foundered at sea while on her voyage to New Caledonia, and that ten persons have lost their lives by the disaster. It has been ascertained that the Henrietta was overloaded when she left port,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 607, 17 November 1881, Page 2
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207TELEGRAMS. Temuka Leader, Issue 607, 17 November 1881, Page 2
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