TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 929, 18 March 1882, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

London, March 11. -v*The trial of U. G. F. Damson, the surgeon who was arrested on a charge of poisoning his brother-in-law, Percy Malcolm John, at Wimbledon, in December last, was concluded today. The accused was found guilty of murder, and sentenced to death. Her Majesty the Queen left Windsor Castle today for Mentone, in the South of France . March 14. The Leaders of the Radical party in the House of Commons, and outside, are agitating with the object of inducing Government to order some mitigation of the prison treatment of the “ suspects ” who are in custody in various gaols in Ireland. Consols ar 10(1|. New Zealand securities : 5 per cent 10-40 loan, 104£exd'v. ; 5 per cent 1889 loan, 104£ ; 4£ per cent 1879-1904 loan, 102. Colonial breadstuffs are dull at unchanged quotations, viz,:—Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse. 53s ; New Zealand ditto, 495. Adelaide flour, ex store, 48s. Australian tallow is dull at 40s for best beef, and 45s for best mutton. Best Scotch pig-iron, Nn. 1, free on hoard in the Clyde, is quoted at 50s. an advance of Is. At today’s wool auctions, there was an active demand for most descriptions, end 8600 bales were catalogued. March 15. - Jtyfthw intelligence to hand from

Costa Rica, regarding the earthquake which has been experienced the/e, shows that the acc; urns first received were greatly uverdrawn. The loss of life and property has b en much less than was then reported. Mr Kelley, one of the Land Leaguers, who has been in custody for some time past, has been released. Paris, March 14. It is announced that M. Brediff, who has been appointed to temporarily succeed M. Blignieres as ComptrollerGeneral in Egypt, will act under the French Consul-General. Athens, March 14. A new Ministry has hen formed under the Presidency of M. 'liicoupis in succession to the Government of M. Coumoundouros. Washington, March. 14. The Bill providing for the abolition of polygamy in the United States has been finally passed by Congress. Capetown, Ma'-ch 15. Telegrams to hand from Bloomfontin report that the question for the bestowal of the Cross of St. Michael and St, George upon President Brand has again been under consideration in the Volksraad, and that that Chamber has now passed a resolution authorising th President’s acceptance of the honor of knighthood.

AUSTRALIAN

Melbourne, March 15. In an action for libel brought by Mr Williams, who was Minister of Mines in the Berry administration, against the proprietors of the Argus, a verdict has .been returned for defendants, the jury finding that the comments of the Argus were fair and justifiable. March 16. The widow of Mr Bailliere, the p üblisher, has been awarded £3082 compensation for the loss of her husband by the Jolimont railway accident. The Australian cricketers are passengers by the steamship Assam, leaving fur Galle today, Adelaide. March 15 At the Police Court today, Messrs Hicks, Baiker, and Horton were committed for trial on the charge of conspiring to defraud the Australian Mutual Provident Society and the Australian Alliance Company

NEW ZEALAND

(Per Press Association ) Auckland, March 16

Two attempts were made last night to burn the National Hotel, at Cambridge. At 7.30 two rooms were discovered to be on fire, the bedding and furniture being destroyed, but the fire was extinguished without much difficulty. About 10 o’clock a eraell of burning was again detected, and another bedroom was found to be on fire. Some clothes on a chair near the door had evidently been set on fire. There is no clue as to the

perpetrator. Shortly after twelve o’clock last night Roe’s sawmill at Onehunga was burned. There being no fire service in Onehunga the fire burnt itself cut. Fortunately the wind was blowing fresh from the north-east, or the mill sheds and a por» tionofthe town would have suffered. The mill and outbuildings were insured in the Colonial Office for -G650, but the probable loss to the company will not exceed £SOO. Roe estimates his uninsured loss at £3OOO. New Plymouth, March 16. Joseph Garden Parnell was charged with breaking into the Windsor Castle with the intention of criminally assaulting Mrs Daniels. The evidence went to show that the prisoner climbed a ladder and got into the upper storey of the hotel. He was caught by Mr Daniels, and given in charge. Parnell is one of the A.C. stationed at PungarehUj The case was adjourned till Friday week, bail being allowed in two sureties of £SO. each. Ch'lUSTchucrch, March 16. The return of the criminal statistics gives the total offences reported in 1881 as 2(98, against 2239 in 1880. The number of apprehensions was 1927, against 2080 in the previous year. The total number committed for trial was 63 men and 1 woman in 1881, as against 77 men and 2 women- in 1880. The prisoners summarily convicted in 1881 were 1391 men, and 254 women, making a total of 1645, against IPOB. in 1880. The accused persons discharged numbered 181 men and 87 women in 1881 and 227 men and 66 women in 1880. As usual, the chief item was drunk and disorderly, of whom there were 840, an increase on the previous year. There were 314 cases of larceny, one more *; than in 188 C, and 284 of vagrancy,

also an i';or«*ase. In addition to these t ere were 962 summons cases.

With reference to the statements abmt a scandal at the Normal School, the Chairman'of the Board of Education today reported that the Head Master had held an investigation, giving the gentleman who had laid the complaint an opportunity of questioning the children said to be implicated. There was no evidence adduced, he said, substantiation the charges, and the complainant expressed himself satisfied with the course adopted by the Board ; but in future a teacher would take charge of the infants in the playground daring the dinner hour. Information has been received that four more bays in the Exhibition will be required for exhibits in the French court, two more for the German, two for the Victorian, and two for the New Zealand courts, Ashburton, March 16. The Commissioner of Customs has been pleased to order that beer seized at three local breweries a short time since shall be returned. This will make a great difference to the brewers, who have already been heavily fined. Had the beer been forfeited the loss would have been very severe. Dunedin, March 16. A house belonging to a miner named Ellis, near Cromwell, on the northern goldfields, was burned down today, and a child was burned to death.

The Kailangata Coal Company has declared an interim dividend of 10 per cent for the halt year.