TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1022, 26 October 1882, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND , FOREIGN. London Oct. 20.

There is a fair demand for weol, ami a better enquiry Or all descriptions of New Zealand sorts.

Oct. 22

Intelligence jias been received here that the steamsiiin Gulf of Finland, 2580 tons, outward bound . from Liverpool to. Melbourne, has g-me: ashore at Gebbrihmagur, in the Red Sea, and is iu need of assistance, which has since been .promptly- sent from Aden.

A l '-' Oct. 23Telegrams are to hand from Manilla announcing that a terrific evcloac Ims l)pcu experienced in the Philippine Islam’s, and tlm greater portion of the town of Manilla lias been completely destroyed. -

11k i market tor colonial wheat is quiet but hi in at 4<)s tor ,-\i 1 < : I;w(i(: wheat, ex store, and 43 to 4Gs- for 1 New Zealand ditto. Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, is quoted at 345.

Paris, Oct. 22

A treaty has heeiv concluded between France and Tunis. Under the, terms of the same TVauce assumes the responsibility of the Tunisian debt. A judicial tribunal is appointed, and a-yearly allowance ol 28,< ! 0U trancs is accorded to the Bey,

Vienna, Ocp, 23

Serious riots have occurred at Belgrade, in the com se of which King Miliu of Senna, while in the Cathedral of that city, was fired upon by a rioter, fho attempted assassination was, however, unsuccessful, and the man, whose name is Markovich, was at once arrested.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE

Melbourne, Oct. 23.

T he Marquis ot .Norma nby received a telegram yesterday announcing the death of his mother, the Dowager Marchioness of Norman by, aged 84. The schooner Yarra, bound from Newcastle to Melbourne, became a total wreck at three o’clock this morning. All on board have been saved.

The death is announced of Mr John Hydes, the well-known actor.

Oct. 24,

Serious floods Lave occurred at Benign ira on the river of that name, 84 miles S.W. of Melbourne. Three persons have been drowned by the inundation of their homes.

At tb.e Police Court to-day Mr Win. Hill, manager of ihe Colonial Bank of Australasia at Becdy Creek, was committed for trial on a charge of being concerned in the robbery which was committed at that branch on the I2th August last.

SrcttEy. Oct. 24. Ihe strike of men employed at the Nepean waterworks has concluded.

BRISBANE, Oct. 24. The strike in the iron trade has ended, and the men have resumed work.

EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS

London, Oct. 22, A Military Commission has been appointed to enquire into the cause of the defects which were apparent in the army hospital and transport services during the recent operations of the British troops in Egypt.

Alexandria, Oct. 22,

In consequence of witnesses having been examined by special Commission at Cairo, in the absence of Arab! and his associates, or their legal advisers, the enquiry before the Commission will be reopened on Saturday next. Counsel employed to defend Arabi have secured the right of cross-examin-ing witnesses, and it is certain that Arabi and ids fellow prisoners will receive a fair trial.

Sir Garnet Wolseley has sailed for England. Under the scheme of reorganisation drawn up for the Egyptian Government by Baker Pasha, one half of the officers in the army will in future be Englishmen.