TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 936, 11 April 1882, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. Paris, April 7. Telegrams have been received from Tunis reporting that the French troops succeeded in engaging with the insurgent Arabs yesterday, and that a desperate battle was fought, which resulted in the annihilation of the Arab forces. Bon Amen a, principal leader ot the rebels, was in command of them .during the battle, but subsequently escaped. April 8. Later despatches from Tunis state that after their recent defeat the Arabs fled for refuge across the border into Tripoli. St. Petersburg, April 8. The authorities have succeeded in discovering the dynamite mine, the existence of which was recently reported to them. A mine was constructed in the neighborhood ot Moscow, and was intended to destroy the line of railway over which it was expected the Czar would travel. Investigations which have since been made by the police have led to the arrest of eighty persons who are charged with being connected with the projected assassination of His Majesty, A renewal of the outrages upon Jews in Southern Russia has recently taken place. Attacks in their worst foims have been made upon the Jewish quarters of various towns. At one township near Oherson, hundreds of houses have been demolished, and their occupants brutally treated. Cairo, April 6 . It has transpired that Ismael Yakouk, Minister of Finance, has hypothecated the public revenue in order to raise money. April 7. The encashment of the revenue by the Minister of Finance is the subject of warm criticism. Arabi Pasha, the leader cf the National Party, has, however, repudiated the transactions of his colleague, and disavows all knowledge of them. AUSTRALIAN. Melbourne, April 8. Telegrams have been received reporting that the steamship Leura, for whose safety fears were entertained, has not met with any disaster. The cause of her detention is not stated. NEW ZEALAND. (Per Press Association.) Auckland, April 8. Frederick Fairburn, the surveyor who was committed for trial for breaking and entering the residence of the Rev. William Gittos, at Kaip ra, was, when discovered in the house, horse-whipped by Mr Gittos’ two daughters, and knocked down by the servant man, who came to their assistance. He had been forbidden the bouse. Mr Gittos was away preaching at the Kaihai station that evening. Dunedin, April 8. The steamer Koputai, ran down by the Waitaki, has been successfully floated and taken into dock. The sports have been postponed, owing to bad weather.