TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1012, 3 October 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOKEIGN. London, Sept. 27, Colonial breadstuff's continue rery dull. Adelaide Yrheat has declined Is, to 465, ex warehouse ; and Adelaide flour has.also declined Is, to 335. Sept. 28. The shipment of frozen meat ex ship Mataura Ironi Dunedin has arrived in excellent condition. The mutton realised

per lb. Salesmen expressed themselves delighte i both with its condition and quality.

The ceremony of consecrating the Czar as Alexander 11., Emperor of Russia, was secretly performed during his recent visit to Moscow, on pretence of opening an Exhibition. Six cruisers for the Australian squadron are being fitted out and armed at tfie Chatham Dockyard.

At to-day's wool sales 3900 bales were catalogued. The tone of the sal§ was steady, but the demand was not netive. 30,5<»0 bales have been withdrawn from sale smce the opening of the series. Lafer. A further quantity of the Mataura,'* mutton was sold to-day at an average of 5d per lb. The Mataura's; sheep are pronounced by competent judges to be over fat. . n A portion of the cargo of mutton, ex steamship Garonne,' from sold to-day at an arerage of s|d. The reported secret coronation of the Czar roquireg copfirmajjion.

Serf- U9.'-'-Frazer's Magazine has discontinued publication. A superb comet has been seen at the Paris observatery. The Daily News says that the Australian cricketers have taught their Home brethren a useful lesson, and have completely humbled them. News from the Cape states that the native chiefs of the Transvaal have refused to submit to the taxation imposed by the Boers, and have ordered the collectors to withdraw from their territory. Russia has seized the control of the Kilia, one of the branch mouths of the Danube, and has occupied the town, which is fortified and situated on the bank of the river in Bessarabia, about 25 miles north-east of Ismail, The land agitation in the Isle of Skye is assuming a serious aspect, and a military force is now being used to enforce the interdicts of eviction. A young man named Bechag, the son of a Sydney medical man, was one of the passengers by the Potosi, but on arriving at Plymouth he was found to have been attacked with smallpox, and was accordingly taken ashore to the hospital there. The steamer was then admitted

to pratique. Henry Edmund Knight, an Alderman for Cripplegate ward, is the Lord Mayor elect of London. He was Sheriff in 1876. The Turkish tioops are now being withdrawn from the disputed frontier, as the Turko-Greek difficulty is at an end. At tht banquet to the cricketers, Murdoch made an excellent speech in responding to the toast of the evening. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 1,900,000 quarters, being a decrease of 50,000 quarters during the week. Sept. 30. The Bank of South Australia has declared a dividend of 5 per cent for the pist half-year. Tht Government has issued a notifition announcing the existence of a smallpox epidemic at Capetown, and declaring the Cape to be an infected district, MrE. D. Gray, M.P. for Carlow, who was sentenced in August last to three months' imprisonment and pay a fine of £5500 for publishing in Freeman's Journal certain articles reflecting upon the Judges and jurymen engaged in a recent agrarian murder trial, has has been released trom custody. The Australian cricketers sailed for New York by thy steamer Alaska today. Vienna, Sept. 30. Serious anti-Jewish riots have occurred at Pressburg, a town in Hungary, about 35 miles east of this city, and containing 46,000 inhabitant?, of whom 700 are Jews. The riot lasted a considerable time. The mob defying the authorities, martial law was proclaimed, and is still enforced in the district.