TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1043, 14 December 1882, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN London, Dec. 10.

Tiie Privy Council lias allowed tin appeal in the case of Blackwood against the Queen, with costs.

* The trial of the Lough Mask murderers has resulted in the jury disagreeing, and being discharged without giving a verdict. A fresh trial will take place.

Serious hemorrage is feared in case of M. Gand'ctta’s wound. Chief Justice Wren ford- succeeds Chief Justice Gorrio at Fijis. Sir Talton Sykes, a recent, convert to the Catholic faith, intends to erect a Roman Catholic Cathedral for the db - cese of M estminstor.

The Indians have made a raid upon Cliecchuhalba, a town between Mexico and Santa. Fee, and have massacred 80 Mexican? and Americans.

The wool sales have closed firmly. One hundred ami thirty-six thousand bales were catalogued ami sixteen thousand bales withdrawn. September rates were recovered on all except faults wools, and coarse and cross-breds, which averaged from [> to 10 per cent lower. Sixty thousand bales were taken for export.

Dec. 11

The Right Hon Earl Derby has accepted a seat in the Cabinet, and will take office at an early date. It is understood that further changes in the constitution of the Ministry will thereby be entailed, and it is expected that a redistribution of the various portfolus will shortly be announced. Another block of buildings, occupied by Messrs Silber and Fleming, were destroyed by fire on Saturday. Five of the prisoners who confessed to a participation in the murder of the Joyce family at Mautrasna. and were duly found guilty and sentenced to deatli, bare now had their, sentences commuted to penal servitude for life. The deatli sentence will be carried out in the case of the other prisoners.

Intelligence is to hand from Ireland that, despite the prohibition issued, a meeting of the National League was held yesterday at Loughrea, County Galway. The second warehouse occupied by Silber and Fleming, which was burned down on Saturday night, formed part of the block situated in Wood street, be • tween Addle street and London Wall, which was the scene of the conflagration of December Bth. A fresh fire broke out among the still smouldering ruins, and the flames spread rapidly, and before they could be got under the building and its contents were completely destroyed. Mr Gladstone has resigned office us Chancellor of the Exchequer, but retains that of First Lord of the Irea—sury. Tubar Pasha lias declined a scat in the Ottoman Cabinet, and it is expected that Ayoub Pasha will be appointed to succeed’Riaz. Mr Parnell is endeavoring to find a purchaser for his estates in W icklow. Dec. 12. The German Reichstag has rejected the proposal for biennial budgets by an immense majority. The Chinese Government have sent a force of 10,000 men to the T onquin territory. At a large meeting in iamdoii. iepresenting IiO.UUO working men, resolutions were carried demanding the opening id Museums on Sundays. In its issue this morning the Slam.aid announces that i l , il l Derby will sit in the Cabinet as .Secretary for India, vice the Marquis of Darlington, who will take tiie portlolio ol V> ar, Mr Cbm.. its, the present Secretary ol State for \\ nr assuming (be Chauceilorsliip of tiie Exchequer, about to he resigned by the Premier.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, Dee. IE Tiie sufferers by the recent railway accident all continue to make favorable progress towards recoverv. Dec. 1A News has been received from Crcswiek that the Australasian Gold Mine has been flooded. Forty men were at work when the outburst of water oc-

curred. Of these fourteen escaped, and twenty-six are still underground. There is now 40tt of water in the main shaft, and the pumps available are quite inadequate to cope with the task of pumping out the mine. Arrangements are being made for additional pumps and engine. But faint hopes arc entertained, however, that those in the mine will succeed in escaping. The scene at the mouth of the mine when the disaster was made known was mo ,t distressing. ' Later. Great etloi-ts; .are being madfe at the Australasian*mine' of water. By the aid of additional pumps which have been obtained, the depth has already been reduced by (ift. All hope, however, of rescuing the men alive, who are underground, has been abandoned. The Melbourne Manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand, Limited, reports of the local grain market as follows :—Wheat, shipping, per bushel, 5s to 5s sd, with • a dow 7 nward tendency. Malting barley is firm and in active demand at 3s lOd to 4s 2d. Netv Zealand feeding oats, duty paid, 3s lid to 4s 3d ; ditto, in bond, 3s 4d to 3s Sd, the market being quiet and prices barely maintained. After several days’ rainfall the weather is now very fine, and arrivals of grain from the country are increasing. The Legislative Assembly met to-day after an adjournment for the purpose of considering Mr Muuro’s vole of want of confidence. Before proceeding with the discussion o i Mr Munro’s motion, Mr Woods, the member for Stawell, moved that the proprietor of the Age be summoned to the Bar of the House for having published in that paper an article reflecting upon the efficiency of the Woods railway brake in connection with the recent railway accident on the Hawthorne line, tiie publication of the article being alleged'by Mr Woods to y be a breach of privilege. The motion was supported by the Premier, but after an animated discussion of some length, it wms ultimately withdrawn, and the debate on Mr Munro’s motion for appointment of a Committee of seven to investigate the railway administration ; of the colony was then resumed. The debate proceeded with vigor, and at ton o’clock Sir Bryan O’Loghlen was replying in a lengthy speech.

Sydney. Dec, 11

Intelligence has been received here that the crew of a vessel, sixteen in all, have been killed ami eaten by the natives of New Guinea. A life buoy, with the name ‘ Favons ’ on it, was found near the scene of the massacre, but the

vessel’s name is uncertain, as no trace of her was left.

Dec. 12

Telegrams are to hand to-night from Newcastle reporting that a serious fire has broken out in the centre ot that city. The conflagration has assumed large dimensions, and is still raging. At ten o’clock five shops were in flames, and all efforts to extinguish them had proved futile. It is feared that a large block of buildings, of which they form a part, will be consumed.

EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS

LundoXj Fee. y

France insists upon continued political interest in tin; conduct of affairs in Egvst. The Gamhetta .Press threaten' rej risais against the Government, winch, is accused of seeking to enlist the aid of Prussia ii.ni Italy against England. Dec. 11. ( «eiieia! Sir Eveiyn \\ tied sails for Egypt :>t an early date, to take the command ol the reorganised Egyptian army. Rumors am current here that lour battalions of Uriiisii troops now serving in Egypt will shortly be withdrawn. The Egyptian Government will con-; tribute +'.;Jgy ) monthly to defray the expenses if England in connection with tiie recent campaign in Egypt. y' : ; :d} Caiuo, Fee. 10, ■ Mahmoud Eehmy and Yohoub Sami, who tok a leading part in the rebellion; have, been sentenced to exi'e. Fee. 11. Fifcy-l'our of the rebel prisoners hare been released from custody without being brought to trial.