TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1068, 8 February 1883, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Feb. 4. Eight men have been ctiarged with complicity in the Phoenix Park murders, and of these O’Brien, Brady and McCafferty have been fully identified as having been seen lurking in the grass near the scene of the murders. The medical evidence shows that Hie wounds on the bodies exactly correspond witli those likely to be inflicted by the amputation knives found in a lolthou.se belonging to another of the prisoners, James Carey; a resident in Dublin. Tinprisoners at first laughed at Hie charge, and then appears 1 greatly alarmed. The most intense excitement exists in Dublin over the arrests. Feb, 5, Consols have further advanced and are to-day quoted at U2-|. New Zealand securities arc firm at the following quotations : —5 per cent 10-40 loan, 105| ; 5 per cent 1880 loan, 104; 4-| per cent 1879-1904 loan, 103^. Colonial wheat has advanced la per quarter. Adelaide, ex store, is now worth 51s 6d, and New Zealand dit'o 45s 6d to 495, Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, has risen to 34s 6d. Australian tallow is unchanged, Bed is quoted at 425, and mutton 45s lor average brands. The homeward mails via Naples, which left Melbourne on December 24th: per steamship Orient, were delivered here to-dav.

Earl Spencer, the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, has left Dublin for London. The departure of His Excellency was not previously announced, and was quite unexpected. Feb. 6.

The four men who were recently arrested on charges of complicity in the Phoenix Park murders were again brought up yesterday at the Dublin Police Court. Evidence was given connecting the prisoners with the murder of an informer, who was killed after an extensive discovery of arms had been made by the police. The case was further remanded.

New York, Feb. 5. Serious floods have occurred in the States of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana, causing an immense amount of damage to property. Vienna, Eeb. 5. Several severe shocks of earthquake have occurred at Agram, the capital of Croatia. Paris, Feh. 5. The Committee to which the Bonapartist Bill has been referred by the Re late is composed of a majority of members who are opposed to the provision for the expulsion of members of dynastic families from France as agreed to in the Chamber of Deputies. Bombay, Feh, 5.

Intelligence is to hand from Joonaghur in Buroda territory of a serious affray between the police and a number of malcontent ryots (native peasants,"! A body of two hundred of the latter were attacked by a large force of armed native police, and seventy ryots killed. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Feb. 5. The necessary preparations for raising the Austral are now nearly complete, and it is expected she will bo floated this month. .Melbourne, Feb. 5. All attempts to float the ship Rerancaria, at Barwon Heads, have as yet O ; , %> proved unsuccessful. 300 tons of cargo have been lightered and a quantity thrown overboard. Of the latter, several cases of brandy, chemicals and furniture have floated ashore, and fell into the possession of pillagers who looted the spirits, A scandalous scene, amounting to a wild orgie ensued, and lasted for several hours. The police were powerless to interfere. Later,

The position of the ship Bcrcngaria is unaltered, but it is expected that she will be floated off when more cargo has been removed. 250 tons have already been jettisoned. Fob. 0. The ship Berengana was successfully floated off last night. Adklaidk, Feb, D.

Mr Redmond, M.P, for New Ross, Ireland, arrived hero to-day, and was accorded an enthusiastic reception by the lochl supporters of the Land League.

’FRISCO MAIL NEWS. The R.M.S. Australia arrived at Auckland cm Monday last with the '•n,d'sh and American mails, via San Francisco. She left San Fiancisco cn .) fin nary 16th, and Honolulu on tin.* 23rd. She brings the following intelligence : San Francisco, Jan 1(3. The death of Mr John Cody, of Michiirnyi,. is,_ reported, ..after a fast-of 102 days. Another self confessed Cavendish and Burke murderer, named O’Ueidy, turned up at It diester, New Yoik, on Jannaw Ot.e. He is hel'eved to hi* a humbug, seeking a free passage (0 Ir .-land or free 111 I Mi'll Mark T"ain has been nonsuited in nn •iction to nsni i Messrs Bedford, Clark and Co. from republishing his works. M irk Twain had failed to copyright his works, hut claimed the psi-ndon.ym as a trade mark Ti e Court don od the eb'im. nod said his books were open to pnbTcation bv nnvbody "’ho chose to do so. The Newlud House, a six-s’orey brick 'mililiim- at Alilwaukie, was Immed on January 11 Hi. There were 110 guests and Go "employees, >ll the hotel. Of these only 07 were saved, the rest cither being • ur'ned with the ImiMmg nr kilh-d by leaping from the win lows The fire is lidi jved to be the work i.f an ineemliary. Tom Thumb and bis wife Ind a close Mmve in getting away from i.ln* flames Me-srs R’chardsnn and NfV*"’s linen factory at B.Mast was burned on Jam: irv Hdi. The loss is estimated at £30.000. On the 13th the Prince of Wales nnveiled (ho statute erected to the memory of the Prince Imperial, by the subscription of twenty-five thousand officers and nmn of the British army. The floods in the Rlrne have made terrible ravages. Many districts will never regain the* prosperity. On January oth, Raab, on the Danube, was submerged, and many persons were drowned. The losses by fl oods in Germany are estimated at 80,000,000 marks. The Rappel ridicules (he unveiling of the h'atue’of the Prince Imperial by I In* Prince of Wales' It stigmatises the English nation as a ’herd of entile,’ and the English army as an ‘army of women.’ The rest of the Paris journals join in spiteful remarks. Henry M. S'anley, the explorer, was reported on January 10th 150 mi'ea up the Congo river with 300 tons of goods. He u ill'resem all interference wbh his movements by Deß-aZza, the emissary of the French Government.

The most tangible thing in Ir-lmd (savs a despatch of December 31st) is the distress and misery of the people iu the western districts, particularly in plm-es were there are hundreds of evicted families, without shelter and starving. Information ibi.nt these is derived chieflv from Catholic priests, whose own resources are all exhausted, and about whose dwelli - "s the unfortunate people are pa'lu ring, crying piteously for a potato or a little corn meal. Jas. Meet), a heavy financial op-racol-on the New York Market, predic’s that the United States, through overtrading and excessive railroad building, is on the eve of a financial crisis. The Pall Mall Gazette asserts, and the German Embassy denies, that German residents in London have (eceived notice to hold thems-lves ready to return to Germany to fu fi! their term of military service. The Thames petroleum stores at Exeter were destroyed by an explosion on December 22nd, and the explosion was followed by a great fire. Owr 60,000 gallons of blazing oil ran into the river, setting fire to the shipping. Several vessels were destroyed, as well as business and other buildings.

A tall chimney in Bradford fe'l upon a building full of operators and killed 36. and injuring 50 others, mostly women and children. The total damage was osti mated at £60,000.

Gaps have appeared in (he avals of Peterborough Cathedral, one of the finest in England, and the structure will bo demolished.

Dr Manning, a well known writer on political economy, shot his wife and himS"lf on D'e mber 27th. The nuivdor and suicide were committed by mutual agreement. Planning"was pecuniarily embarraised, and his wife suffered from an incurable bodily ailment.

A large meeting was held in Cork lor. the purpose of originating a movement for holding an exhibition in that city in 1883. Every class in the commiinii.y was represented. A company is in course of organisation in Dublin, with a capital reaching £I,OO ,000, for developing Irish matinfact tires.

De Losseps announces a scheme for the creation of an inland sea in Africa, to bo prosecuted by private enterprise.

One hundred persons on an average are searched nightly in Dublin under the curfew clause of the Repression Act. Starvation is reported at Baunascolc. A husband and wife were found dead on the sth from this emse. Large numbers of farmers at Skibboreen, with holdings of from one to twenty acres, are absolutely without stock or food. A priest accompanied the Chief Secretary fur Ireland iu bis inspection of the parish of Glen Colnrnbkiil. In twenty houses visited on January 4th there was not a morsel of food.

When Micbe;,l F.yan, the last of the Huddy murderers, was sentenced to be handed, lie said to the ju Ige ‘Thank y< U, sif. f am as willing to go there (looking ujnvar Is) as to go homo. I wish you all good day.’ His execution was fixed for January 1G h.

A fanner named Curran was beaten to death at Dnrn.-ford, County Mayo, on January Bth. After spending £50,000 for the relief of small farmers and cotters in the west of Ireland, Lady Florence Wild refuses io raise another fund, for that purpose, believing it to be I lie duty of Government or of the League to move in the matter.

On the 12th a delegation of Catholic prelates brought the condition of the west r o the notice of the Lord .Lieutenant, md he promised to look into the subject at once.

Kagan .and Piggott arc engaged in a war of words. Eigan was Secretary and Treasurer of the Land League, and Piggut declares there are £IOO,OOO of Ihe League’s funds unaccounted for. Messrs Emerson and Huletfc, two Americans have been massacred in Madagascar. A .French interpreter and an African attendant were killed in the siruugle. Leri n despatches dated January 4th say tint the report that the Emperor William will abdicate on his 80di birthday in favor of the Grown Prince is generally believed. TheG/.ar found in his bedroom, on the Ist of Jammy, a lettei from the Revolutionary Committee, demanding a commencement of the promised reforms, and adding that the. Committee possess power to forcibly obtain the concessions they usk for. The Russian force concentrated along the Kars frontier consists of 17,000 men. J. Baldwin known as ‘ Lucky Baldwin ’ proprietor of the hotel and theatre in San Francisco thatbeirs his name, and one of the richest n.en in the city, was shot by a femaie consul named Vernon Baldwin on the 4rh inst., but not killed. The woman accused Baldwin of mining her in body mid mind, and refusing to make the slightest reparation, B.ldwin siys she is partially insane. Os ar Wide sailed for England the day after Ol.ristmis Day. Previous to leaving New York he fell into the hands of 1 Bunko-shearers,’ with whom he played 'ill he lost 1060 dollars, fur wide i he gav* his chi qu-, and Ren took a cab, drove to he bank, and stopped payment.

Jem Mace’s arrival at Sail Franc’sco with I)is M.-ori friend Slade lias been the signal for the breaking out of a pugilistic mania nil over the country. Tom Allen the pugilist, has gone in o training at St. Louis, and will challenge any man in the world for a large sum. He looks for a match with Rourke, Mace, Cleary, or Mace’s unknown. Jem Mace lias been freely entertained by the ‘Fancy ’ of San Francisco since his arrival from Melbourne. and oft’ rs have been made to him to appear on the stage. The boxers Sullivan and Coburn (the latter just returned from the States prison, where he was confuted for murdering a policeman in cold blood) hail a set-to in New York on December 18th. Sullivan, in conversation with a reporter, expressed no fear of Mace, and scoffed at the Aus ralian hruis-rhe had brought with him from the colonies. He speaks of him as ‘ Mace’s half-breed,’

An ( athlete’ testimonial was given to Jem Mace and his ‘infant,’ Herbert Slade, the Timarn Maori, at the Metropolitan Temple last evening, at which there were present nearly 2500 people.

The receipts wore over 30,000 do!?.

Several ambitions young pugilists filled up the time till (lie lions of the evening. Mace ami his protege, appeared and had a rattlino- set-fr. amidst great applause. Sl,ide was inf l ined as the ‘(b-ntlemai who is to km.e.v u.*t am.loan 1l lac doe* not get knocked out himself.’ At the conclusion of his s cond round will, glade, Mace made a speech, in which Insaid lie had retired from the ring an ', would not go back In it again. He wished be was forty instead of fifty, but iheiv was no use saying tli >t a good old uii could always bett a bad young ’un. Hr would alwavs be ready to set to with the tdoves with Sullivan or any of them. Sullivan will meet Mace with hard "loves under the four minutes rule. Mac-' and his partner ere in excellent condition, as I hey keep up their training as the; travel, As soon as Slade', the young Mew Z-a hinder, arrives here, he will h • match* d for a prize fight for 2500d0l an ! the championship The tight wall lake phn e wit fin 100 miles of New Orleans Sullivan s-tys he has no fear of meetim M ice or the giant that accompanies him. but is willing to concede that in a mate; with Mace he has a strong scientific at - agonist.