TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1009, 26 September 1882, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

I ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London Sept. 21, 3 The cricket match between Shaw’s ■ eleven and the Australians was concluded yesterday at the Oval, and * ended in a draw. Colonial breadstuff’s are dull at last quotation 3. At to-day’s wool sales less demand was experienced, and prices were occasionally easier. The catalogue comprised 11,400 bales. 22,250 bales have been withdrawn from sales since the opening of the series. Sept. 22. Obituary—Lord Tenterden, aged 48. Deceased was Permanent Under-Seere-tary for Foreign Affairs. Adelaide wheat remains at 475, cx store, and New Zealand do at 45 s to 475. The Atclmnose have defeated the rebels with great loss. The greater [tart i f the Tyrol is suffering from a terrible inundation,, end famine, ruin and death meet the unfortunate inhabitants on every side. Stanley, the explorer, has arrived at Lisbon, and reports the expedition as having been most successful. Several stations have been established. Five of the Hon. Ivo Bligh’s cricketing team hare left for Australia by the overland route. Wafer does not go, Tiie Hill tribes offered protection to the Christians at Scutari. The English farmers refuse to «upport the Laborers’ League. Kilmainham Gaol, so long the place of confinement of political suspects, ig at last empty, its last suspect prisoner having been released. Sept. 23. Walsh has been executed for the murder of Lyndon. At the wool sales to-day. 282,000 bales were catalogued, 25,000 being withdrawn. The market is steady, and prices remain unchanged from last quotations. St. Petersburg, Sept. 20. Intelligence is to hand that the Czar has reached Moscow, and has received a great ovation from the people. It now transpires that the object ot His Majesty’s visit to Moscow is to attend the Exhibition now being held there, and not, as was supposed, for his coronation ctrgmony. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 21. It has been discovered that a plot has recently been formed among adherents of the Albanian League to attack and massacre all Christians at Scutari, a town in the south of Albania. The conspiracy was detected, and a number ot irrests hrve been made. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Sept, 22. The whole of the Garden Palace was completely destroyed this morning within an hour after the announcement of the fire. A few portions of brickwork are all that remain gtanding. There was no insurance upon the building or upon its contents, except upon the art collection. The losses are incalculable on account of the great destruction of Government dtcuments, many of which cannot be replaced. All papers relating to the last census, and p'ans and records of the railway surveys perished in the flames, while the collections in the Technological Museum will be difficult to veplace. The flames spread with great rapidity, and rose to an immense hfight, being visible for miles around. Tiie origin of the fire is entirely unknown, hut it is hinted that it is due io incendiarism. The art collection in the Garden Palace was insured for £3OOO. This was the only insurance on the building or its contents. Sept. 23. New Zealand wheat is unchanged at 5s 4d per bushel, and New Zealand oats at 3s 3d. Maize is quoted at os, and Sugar Company’s No. 1 pieces at £35 per ton.