TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 933, 28 March 1882, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, March 23. Mr Burnaby yesterday ascended in the balloon Eclipse from the south coast of England, with the object of crossing the, Channel to Prance. Telegrams are to hand this morning showing that he has been successful, the balloon having been sighted from Boulogne, on the French coast. The, total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £15,000,0(0. There arc no changes to report in the colonial prpduce market. 12,200 bales were catalogend at today’s wool auction, the tone of which was strong. Superfine and fine qualities of all classea of wool are firmer. 11,500 bales haye been withdrawn from |9.lu eince the opening of the eeries..

Obituary—Henry Wad worth LongfePow, pnet, aged 75. Paris, March 24. Mr Burnaby, who recently ascended from England in the balloon Eclipse., has successfully crossed the English Channel, He lauded today in the neighborhood of Caen. Constantinople, March 23. Intelligence has reached here that a vessel containing a .cargo of dynamite and gunpowder has been seized by the Russian authorities at JCertch., a seaport in the Crimea. Cairo, March 23 . The political crisis is believed to be imminent, and it is anticipated that Mahmoud Baioudi Pasha will resign And be succeedud by Arabi Pasha, the leader of the National party and the present Minister of War, as President of the Council of Ministers. Ottawa, March 23. The Canadian House of Commons has passed a Bill legalising marriage with a deceased wife’s sister.

AUSTRALIAN.

Melbourne, March 25. Sir Bryan -O’Loughlen, the Premier, has received a telegram from Earl Kimberley, .Secretary of State for the Colonies, stating that Henry Bryant’s information to the Melbourne Age regarding the alleged Russian designs upon the colonies is wholly incredible, aijd adding that Great Britain’s relations with Russia are ot .a friendly character.

NEW ZEALAND

.(Per, Press Association) Wellington, Mai'ch 25. A meeting of the Directors of the Wellington Frozen Meat Company was held yesterday, when it was decided to procure a Haslatu ipachme, similar to those ordered by the Christchurch and Dunedin Companies. It is expected the machinery will .arrive during the spring, and that the Company will be able to commence operations during the season. At the Police Court this Edward Arnold, formerly third cook of the s.s. Hawea, was sentenced to six months’ hard labor for stealing four aprons and sonie forks from the Union Steam Shipping Company. A man named Charles W. Bell, a stationer in Coprtney place and Secretary to the Britannia Lodge of Oddfellows, burst a blood-vessel in the Street this morning, and bled to death in a few minutes The deceased was Consumptive, and leaves a wife and two children. Christchuckch, March 26. Mr Federli has returned from a visit to Akaroa and the Peninsula, where he has persuaded a number of persons to undertake the silk industry on a large scale. He has successfully hatched many silkworms, and raised cocoons superior to any he has seen before, and will exhibit a bay of interesting specimens of sericulture at the International Exhibition.