TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1044, 16 December 1882, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN London, Dec. 12.

The Marquis of Lome and the Princess Louisa have left San Francisco, but, fearing Fenians, they have obtained a military escort.

Dec. 18

Telegrams have been received from Jamaica reporting that the whole of the business portion of Kingston, the principal town of the island, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at fully £6,000,000. The hearing of the cases against Messrs Davitt and Hcalcy, two of the leaders of the Irish National League, who were summoned to find sureties for their good behavior, has been indefinitely postponed. The member of the. Embassy sent to Europe by the Queen of Madagascar, who recently arrived in London, had au audience to-day of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor. The first of the prisoners charged with the murder of two bailiffs at Lough Mask bas been found guilty, but senlencc is deferred.

It has transpired that the Rev Edward Harold Browne, D.D., Bishop of Winchester, has declined the Primecy of all England, rendered vacant by the death of the Rev Dr Tait.

The Right Hon W. E. Gladstone bos received numerous congratulatory letters and addresses on the jubilee of bis Parliamentary life. He was first elected (in the Conservative interest) for Newark at the general election in December, 1832.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE

Melbourne, Dec. 13

Messrs Goldsrbrough and Co., (Limited), report a large attendance of buyers at their wool sales to-day, and brisk competition. Greasy wools realised from Scl to I3|d, and washed from 16d to 23£d. Five thousand bales were sold.

Wheat is quoted at 5s 3d to 5s 5d for shipping parcels. The price of barley is maintained, and malting is firm at 3s lOd to 4s. New Zealand oats are very quiet. Feeding qualities are worth 8s 9d to 4s 2d and milling from 4s 2d to 4s 4d. It is announced that the Union Steamship Company have purchased the steamer Suva, of 293 tons, from Messrs J. McEwan and Son, by whom she has for some time past been employed in the trade between Fiji and Melbourne. The Company intends employiug one of its large steamers on that line, and the Suva will be engaged in the islands as a feeder to the trade. It has further transpired that the Company has made arrangements to open a branch establishment in Melbourne on Januiry Ist, under the management of Mr David Mills.

Dec. 14

It is announced that Sir Charles Sladen, M.L.C., has definitely decided to retire from political life. At their wool sale to-day, the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, offered 2900 bales. The sale was well attended, and competition was aainiated at full prices. 2500 bales were sold at satisfactory prices. Good qualities are a shade higher.

Sydney, Dec. 14,

Parliament tvill be summoned to meet on January 3rd. The Parkes Ministry will probably resign before that date and announce the A'aot on the meeting of the House.

THE MirHNG ACCIDENT AT CRESWICK.

Mei.bouknk, Dec. lo

The accidental the Australasian mine, at Creswick was caused by the miners breaking into old workings. According to the latest reports the water, at midnight, was rapidly diminishing, fifty thousand gallons an hour being brought up by the pumps. It is expected that the men still in the mine will be reached this morning, but it is feared if they have not been drowned they will have been suffocated.

Later

Three of the bodies of miners drowned by the flooding of the Australasian mine at Creswick were recovered this evening. The water in the shaft is being reduced

rapidlyy'aiidsfee work of repairing the tubes which supply the workings with fresh air is now being proceeded with.

Dec. H

A telegram from Creswick, timed 7 a.m., reports that the relievers have ascended the shaft of the mine all cheering lustily, and they have stated that when the main drive, near the eleven pump works, was reached, the entombed miners plainly repeated " All right, we are all safe." It is hoped they may be rescued within an hour.

Great excitement and enthusiasm prevails at the entrance of the mine, where crowds of people are collected.

10.40 a.m

A telegram just received from Creswick reports that five men have been saved from the mine, but the remaining twenty one were all dead when the relievers reached them.

11.30 a.m,

Latest telegrams from Ores wick state that the rescuers' work was one of extreme difficulty, owing to t\ie qualities of mullcck and wash dirt in the drive?. Numbers nine and ten drives were searched unsuccessfully, but on arriving at number eleven the reliet parly heard a cry of '' all right," and tills led to the widespread belief that all were safe. The rescuers, however, subsequently found that five only were alive. The names are —Manley, Bowen, Corbett, Maloney and Kirk. They are all very ill from their long confinement. Ihe total numbei of deaths is now known to be twenty-two.

4 p.m

All the bodies of those who loat their lives in the Australasian mine were found near the survivors, and have been recovered. Manley, one of the survivors, states that the majority dropped down from exhaustion, and were suffocated by foul'air or drowned. Kirk is suffering from congestion of the lungs, and is in a critical condition. The distress of the relations of the deceased miners was increased by a groundless report that all had been saved. A subscription list has been opened for the widows and orDhans.

EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS

Alexandria, Dec. 12

The British officers despatched by General Allison have investigated the state of affairs in Soudan, and report that Khartoum is safe, and that all is quiet in the vicinity. The vanguard of the Egyptian expedition despatched against the false prophet has reached Khartoum.