TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 933, 1 April 1882, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, March 28. It is announced that the Most Rev. McCabe,. Catholic Archbishop

of Hub in, lias received the Cardinal's ; hat. Serious outrages continue to be committed in tff; disturbed districts in Ireland. News is tQ hand today that an attempt has been made in Donegal to destroy a farm house with an explosive j bomb. The missile was thrown and | the explosion caused serious damage,to ! the house, but the inmates escaped without injury . Jt has transpired that Government hi)ye refused the request of Messrs Parnell, Dillon and ICelly, that they should be liberated on parole. In the House of Commons today the Right Hon W. E. Forster, Chief Semv tary for Ireland, made a statement with regard to the position of affairs iu Ireland. He said there were hopeful signs of a cessation of disorder, but that outrages must be stopped or the Government would be compelled to ask the House to authorise the adoption of stronger measures for the suppression of agrarian and political crimes. In the City of Dublin today a murder has b/een committed under circumstances which point to the crime as haying beep committed from political raotiyen. Mareh. 29. Five persons have been arresed on suspicion of being implicated in the murder committed yesterday in Dublin, the motive for which is supposed to have been a political one, and a number of arms and several papers of a seditious i)ature were found in the possession qf the accused, and have been seized by the police. The Right Hon. John Bright has introduced in the House of Commons, on behalf of the Government, a Bill to disfranchise, on account of corrupt practices, the Boroughs of Boston, Macclesfield and Canterbury, and to further suspend, for the same cause, the seats for Chester, Gloucester, Oxford and Wigefn. Adelaide wheat, warehouse, is uiir changed at 54s 6d, and New Zealand ditto, 51s. Australian tqllow—best beef, 39s 6d; best mutton, 44s 6d, At the wool sales today, 7300 bales were catalogued, and the tone of the sale was again firni.

The of Soqtli Australia has (lettered a dividend of 5 per cent for half year, March 30. A protest againt the construction of the projected tunnel under the Channel is being largely signed,, and by many influntial persons. The Universities boat race takes place on Saturday next, the Ist April. The Oxford crew are the favorites, betting being 3 to 1 on them. AUSTRALIAN. Melbourne, March 29. Bryant, the informant pf the Age regarding the alleged Russian designs on the colonies, has been identified as a French refugee from New Caledonia* whose real name is De Beaumont, and who was recently discharged from the Pentridge gaol. Perth, March 29. Most destructive hurricanes have been, experienced along the western coast of this colony, but more particularly in the north-west. The wind blew with great force, and has completely destroyed the town of Roobourn.e, the site of a pearl fishery, and Port Cossacks, situated eight miles off. All the houses and building in both places were levelled to the ground, and three deaths have resulted from disasters.

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association ) Auckland, March 30

The police made a raid on a house of ill-fame last night and eight women were arrested, nearly all of w s hom got six months. The police have got a list of 187 women of this claps,. A man named Pratt was convicted of systematic communication with the prisoners in Lyttelton gaol and was fined £lO or a month’s imprisonment The evidence showed that he got money out of prisoners p r promises of money and then in some instances swindled them after all. The Frozen Meat Company are communicating with the various Shipping Companies trading to New Zealand, in order to obtain a sufficient number of ships fitted; with freezing apparatus. By next season it is estimated five to eight large ships will be required, and endeavors are being ma le to get at least one steamer also. Goods are now arriving, at the Exhibition very fast, and quite an army of workmen are preparing to stand for them.