TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1031, 16 November 1882, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Nov, 12.

A company is being formed here, with a capital of £1,000,000,f0r thepurc hase of the shipping business with New Zealand of Shaw, Saville and Co. and the Albion Company. It is reported that an error, amounting to 1,000,000 francs', has been discovered' in the French budget. As Judge Lawson was walking to his club, protected by a police escort, a ticket-of-leave man named Carrigan approached him holding a revolver concealed in his breast. He was promptly knocked down and arrested.

Nov. 13.

It has now been ascertained that the name of the would-be assasin of Jud ge Lawson is Delaney. He is a convict on a ticket-of-leave, and is well known to the police. The latter are -sanguine that some valuable information will be obtained from the prisoner. The debate on the Premier's proposed new rules for the reform of procedure will be continued in the House of Commons to-day. Numerous amendments have already been proposed to the second.xule, and a lengthy discussion is expected to result. In the Houce of Commons to-day, in reply to a question by Sir Charles Dilke, the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated that Government were giving all necessavy attention to the questions now effecting Madagascar, owing to the importance ot English interests in the island.

The death is announced to-day of George Rose (Mr Arthur Sketchley.)

Nov. 14,

The debate on the Premier's proposed new rules of procedure was resumed in the House of Commons last evening, when Mr Gladstone moved the adoption of the second rule, providing that no motion for adjournment of the House shall be made, except by leave of the House, until after the Orders of the Day and notices of motion have been

entered upon. A large number of amendments were proposed, and the discussion continued till the rising oi .the Hwusp.

Breadstuff's are quiet and unchanged. Adelaide wheat, ex store, is quoted at 495, and New Zealand do, 43s to 46,

AUSTRALIAN CABLE

Sydney, Nov. 13

It has been ascertained that the most serious case arising out of the railway accident which occurred near Bathurst on Saturday is that of a boy named Headland, who has both his thighs seriously fractured.

Divers are still at work on the Austral. It is probable that other bodies, those of several Arab firemen who are missing, will be recovered. An inquest on the purser, engineer, and three seamen, taken from the wreck yesterday, will be held to-day. Later. The inquest on the bodies of the five men who were drowned in the Austral was commenced to-day, but was, after some preliminary evidence, adjourned until to-morrow. The divers have not found any more bodies. The persons who were injured by the railway accident at Bathurst are nil progressing favorably, and it is not expected that any case will terminate fatally. Nov. 44.

The inquest upon the bodies of the men who were drowned by the sinking of the Austral, was resumed to-day. Captain Murdoch was examined at length, but he was unable to account in any way for the foundering of the vessel. The divers have continued their examination of the ship, but they have not recovered any more bodies, and the fate of the Lascar firemen, who it is believed were drowned, is still unknown. Melbourne, Nov. 13.

The first Church of England Congress opens here tc-day. A number of bishops and clergy hare arrived to take part in the proceedings.

EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS

Cairo, Nov. 13

Lord Dufferin is urging the Egyptian Government to expedite the trial of Arabi and the other rebel officers.

It has transpired that, contrary to the understanding which was arrived at last month, the Commission of Enquiry appointed to conduct the prosecution of Arabi now decline to allow the latter's counsel the right of cross-examining the witnesses who give evidence for the prosecution.

Alexandria, Nov. 18.

The organisation of an expedition against the false prophet and his followers has been completed, and a force of 100 men have set out for the Soudan.