TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 708, 10 December 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

KNUMKU ANl> FOREIGN. Lonix>n, Dec. .1. A l*,irne'.lil*, wiio w.\s a candidate (~- ,•!:--, i., nl, tor Lmuioud< it,v in the 1-iuuiii', ,->'! (VniiuMine. rendered vacant by dm appointment of tlie Rijlil Hon Ilugb Law to Use Lord Chancellorship

of If land, has retired from:the contst. In ;tn address to the electors 'announcing his retirement, he supporters of th<* Panvllite l'ku e to vote for';Sir Sa;nuel Wilson, the* Conservative can- i didate. I . Apkn,. P*c. 6. News has reached here ol the death of Captain Ch;>rfea J. Brownr gg, and four the ©few of Her Majesty's ship London, a store vessel,. siation d at Zanzibar, whilst endeavoring to effect the {Nature of an Arab slave dhow. Capfcaiu Brownrigg, in. charge of the ship's pinnace, fully manned, came up with the slaver off the African coast n.-'ar Zanzibar, and at onceaU»cked lies. The crew of the dhow, offered a strong re.sis.'rtiice, end desperate fi,;htiugensued lesiving in, Captain, Brownrigg and four of h'.s men being killed ami seveuil wounded. The slaver succeeded in heating off the pinnace and escaped. Washington, Dec. 6. General Arthur delivered the usual Presidential Message to Congress today. Ihe United- StaUs Government would- renew parleying with England in regard to British Columbia It wuuhi be proposed that the British Governin 'tit should modify the Cla)ton-Bulwe.r' lresitv. The President then stated that it was deemed imperative that the ihe army should be increased by at east, five thousand men,and that a. reorganisation, of the navy should be proceeded with, without- delay..