TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 924, 2 March 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.. London, Feb. 27, It has transpired that Mr Gladstone, has summoned a meeting of the Liberal Members for today, to consider what course should be pursued in view of the action of the Lords in regard to the. Committee of Enquiry into the working of the Irish Land Act. Later. At a meeting of the Liberal members .oday, to consider the action of the House of Lords in appointing a Committee to. enquire into the working of the Irish Land Act, Mr Gladstone declared that he would not allow any-, thing to be done to impair the provisions of that measure. The meetingexpressed its unanimous approval of thePreraitr’u decision. In the House of Commons this afternoon, before any business was dealt, with, Mr Gladstone rose and moved the, postponement of the. Standing Orders; with a view to the. consideration; of the. motion, of which he. gave notive last week, setting forth that the proposed-; enquiry by a Select Committee of the. House of Lords info, the working of the Irish Land Act was untimely, and; would defeat the operation, of that, measure apd prove, injurious to good; government in Ireland, Mr. Gladstone. , addressed the. House at some length,, and stated that a. compromise between; the Government and the House of Lords with regard to the proposed; enquiry would have been, possible had; that House agreed to.exclude the investigation of the judicial operation, of the. Act from, the functions of a Select Com-, mittee. Sir Stafford Northccte op-, posed the Premier’s motion. The House, divided and the motion was. carried, by a t large majority . The Hon. Saul Samjiel, Agent-General for New South, W'ales. in,London, was today presented to, the. Queen at Windsor by the Right Hpn.. Earl Spencer, Lord President of, the. Council. Her Majesty accepted, an. album of colonial drawings from, the, Hon. Saul Samuel. Pabis, Feb. 25. The Bill introduced by M. TirartJ. Minister, for Commerce, providing for,the “ most favored national treatment ”• of English goods under the French, tariff, has been adopted: by the. Chambers. The Bill comes into force, on. May 15th Vienna, Feb, 26: Intelligence is to hand that a dis-. astrous explosion has, occurred in, a. colliery in Styria, Western Hungary, resulting in the death, as far as it.Js, known, of fully 150.mjners. Telegrams are to. hand announcing that severe and general fighting is, proceeding throughout Herzegovina, between the insurgents and the Austrian, troops. Seveial encounters have taken, place, resulting in the defeat of the. insurgents, large numbers of whom are. now in great, distress and homeless.. One thousand destitute refugee insurgents have fled from the scene of hostilities, and have forcibly entered; Montenegro, tp obtain goods and, shelter. Constantinople, Feb, 26. A, detachment of Turkish troops been,ordered to the. frontiers of Montenegro, and Bosnia, to prevent the Albanians joining the insurgents in th ose provinces, which, from .information, to hand, it is feared they are doing, under pretence of friendship towards the. Austrians,

AUSTRALIAN. Melbourne, Feb. 27. The Victorian. Parliament; will reassemble, on,the 25th, April. Peb. 28. The passengers, and others by the Mirzapore, who have suffered from smallpox but are now convalescent, will be released from quarantine, today . Mr Bliss, who , was injured in the railway accident which occurred at Jolimcnt in August last, has.been awarded £2500. damages* The cricket mptch between the All-. England Eleven,and Eleven Victorians, was concluded today. The Englishmen, won,with.eight wickets to spare. The scores, were, Australians—Jst innings, 249 ; 2nd do, 92. Englishmen, Istinnings, 286 ; 2nd do, (tor two wickets)*. 66,

gg - ! Sydney, Feb. 27. Arrived, yesterday afternoon steamer Arawata, from A ucklaml. News has been received that the steamer Kameruka came into collision with a ketch off the New South Wales .coast, near Bicroft Point. The ketch sank and one of her crew was drowned. Albany, Feb. 28. Arrived, this morning, at King George’s Sound—The P. and O. Com* pany’s steamship Shannon, with the inward mails pig, Suez and Brindisi, dated London, January 27th. Adelaide- Feb, 28. Messrs Hicks and Barber, insurance Agents of this city, have been arrested on a charge of attempting to defraud the Australian Mutual Provident S.opi.ety, NEW ZEALAND. (Rbr Press Association.) Wellington, Feb. 28. Mr R, G, Fountain, Under-Secre-tary for Justice, today retired from the Civil Service, owing to the reductions resulting from the reorganisation, by which the Justice Department will in future be attached to the Colonial Secre* tary’s D e P ar tment. Two hundred A.C.s, who are to be removed from Opunake, are being transferred to the Waikato, as it is believed they can be more usefully employed in road making, «kc., there than on the West Coast, Greymouth, Feb. 28. The Customs duties collected for the month of February amounted to £2388, and for the corresponding month of 1881, £3456- Gold duty,' £571 ; beer duty, excise, £46, Christchurch, Feb. 28. Payable quartz reefs have lately been discovered at the head of the Mania fiver, on the line of the West Coast railway, and a rush is expected to set in, - The report re garroting seems to be unfounded. It evidently originated from several persons being assaulted separately while going home on Saturday night. One man was brutally illpsed, and is now confined to bed. The paqse of the assaults are unknown. The Chamber of Commerce has decided to incorporate itself under the Amended Joint Stock Companies’ Act. The Chamber today passed a resolution in favor of amending the bankruptcy laws, so that a debtor shall not be Allowed his discharge till he has paid a dividend of not less than 10s in the £, save in exceptional cases where a majority of creditors in number and value should bo empowered to secure a discharge. The Chairman said amongst other things that '■ having analysed the declarations of insolvency throughout the colony for the last six months, I find that 25 per cent of the number aie by people not in trade, and who consist chiefly of persons described as laborers. It might also be remarked that the colony would perhaps not greatly miss a certain class of legal practitioners, whose special avocation would seem to be to pave the way through the Bankruptcy Court for persons for whom its protection could hardly have been intended.” Oamaru, Feb, 28 . A son of the Rev. Mr Clover, aged 20 months, fell into a water-closet today And was suffocated. Dunedin, Feb. 28. The Customs revenue collected at Dunedin for Februnry is £38,235. For January it was £38,114, and for February last year it wa^/^29,636. ~ ‘ Inveb'cargill, Feb. 28. The Riverton'election petition comes pn for tomorrow. Messrs McDermott and J. Macdonald are the solicitors tor the petitioner, and Messrs i Stout and Finn for the respondent.