TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 994, 22 August 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London Aug., 17. The Irish condition i# unaltered, and the people still discuss Gray’s case. ; Sydney Taiwhanga and his fellow Commissioners sail oh September 7th. Cctewayo returns to the C*pe,;leiving England in about a fortnight. He will be accompanied by several officer# as advisers, and by a temporary British Resident. , : A revolt has occurred in . Corea China, and the King and Queen hare been murdered. . Later, A national fund is being raised by members of Parliament in connection with the anti-foreign rebellion at Corea, in which the K’ng and Queen were killed. . Ui It has been decided to despatch i Japanese raan-of-war to protect the menaced embassy at Corea. . Aug. 18, 5.45 a.m, A powerful party in Ireland are organising an extensive fund for The purpose of assisting the tenants against the landlords. It has bees put in the form ot a company, and Mr Parnell is the chief director. p.m. A family of four persons, supposed to be informers, have been murdered near Lough Conn, in Connaught. Both Houses of Parliament adjourned to-day till October, when an extraordinary autumn session Avill bo held for the purpose ot dealing with Mr Gladstone’s proposed new rules of procedure, |i Aug. 19. i Consols are unchanged it 99|. The market rate of discount has been raised from 3£ to per cent, and is now £ beloAr the Bank rate. Colonial wheat has fallen 6d, and Adelaide, ex store, is quotted at 495, and New Zealand ditto, at 48s. Adelaide flour has declined iy to 355, ex ’ warehouse. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Aug. 17. A man named Burns, who was yesterday acquitted of a charge of murdering another named Forbes, whose headless body was found at Deep Lead, was immediately aftenvards ‘ rearrested fur the murder of Michael Quiulivan, in 1860. A further Avarrant is out for Burns for a murder in’ South Australia* Melbourne, Aug. 19. Burns has been remanded to Hamilton on a charge of murdering Michael * Quiuliyan in 1880.

Adelaide, Aug. 18. Messrs Elder Smith and Co. 3 of this city, are shipping supplies of horse feed for the use of the British troops in . Egypt. Fifty tons are being despatched ‘by each outward mail steamer. Aug. 19. Wheat is firm at 7s. Town flour is quoted at £l4, and country brands at £l3 15s. Brisbane, Aug. 18. Mrs Plimsoll, wife of Mr S, Plimsoll the * sailors’ friend,’ died here to-day.