TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1010, 28 September 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London Sept. 23,

At today's wool sales I<*,ooo bales were catalogued. The tone of the market remains quiet. The Merchant Shipping and Under- ! writers’ Association report the arrival I of the Duchess of Argyle, from Lyttel- [ ton (left June 2nd) ; Firth of Forth, I from Lyttelton ("left June 19th); and Mataura, from Port Chalmers (left Jane 12 th). Sept. 24r. A serious railway accident has occurred in a tunnel near New York. Two trains were telescoped, and 12 persons were killed and a large number weunded. Sept. 25. In consequence of the prevalence of piracy in the Chinese Seas, the English Admiralty is arming a number of merchant cruisers. Six are being prepared at Bombay aud six at Hong Kong. The railway bridge over the Drive, at Essek, a town at the junction of the Drave and Danube., sank gradually as . the train passed over it. The coupling of the carriages gave way, and the rear of the train consequently was saved. Thirty soldiers were drowned. Jay Gould has succeeded in obtaining control over the New York Associated Press. Tiie fact has caus*d a considerable sensation in commercial and political circles.

A number of powerful native chiefs in the Transvaal threaten to commence a war against the Boers, in order to torce the English Government to re-annex the country. Mr Dillon, M.P., has issued a manifesto of his resignation on the ground of continued ill-health. St. Pktebsburo, Sept. 23. The Czar has returned to the Capit. 1 from Moscow, Elaborate

were again taken for his Majesty s safety during the journey. Constantinople, Sept. 23. The Porte has conceded all the demands of the Hellenic Government in connection with the disputed boundary in Thessaly, and the Conference which was proposed to be held to decide the question has according been abandoned.