TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1069, 10 February 1883, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FORETGN. London, Feb. G.

A vacancy having occurred in the representation of Haddingtonshire in the House of Commons, owing to the succession of Lord Eloho to the Earldom of Wemyss, on the death of the late Earl, an election took place ts day, and resulted in the return of Lord Elcho, the eldest eon of the present Earl, by a large majority over his opponent, Air Finlay, the Conservative candidate.

Mr Healey, M.P. for Wexford, lias resigned his seat in the House of Commons.

It has transpired that Earl Spencer was girded by detectives on the jonrnpy from Dublin, and rema ; ns under the pa ne protection whilst in London. His Excellency attended a meeting ol the Cabinet to-day, but nothing is known as to the object of his conference with Ministers. St. Petkrsburo, Fob, 6.

An Imp-rial ukase has been i«su>d, summoning the chief of the nob'lity, the prefects, and the Russian princes to thCzar's coronation at Moscow in May next.

Capetown, Feb. 6.

The Rouse of Assembly has passed a resolution approving of the withdrawal of the Cape Government from Basutoland, but demanding that details should be presented to the Houße of the proposed settlement of the future of that territory.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, Feb. 7.

Sir Julius Vogel is a passenger for London by the Sorata, which sailed today.

The Melbourne manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealan.J (Limited; reports of the local grain market as follows : Wheat is in good demand 5s to 5s 3 I ; malting barley, 5s 3d to 5s 7d, also in pro! demand; N<*w Zealand oats artless depressed, and rather more enquiry is now experienced ; feeding qualities 3s to 3s 6d ; New Zealand oats, under bond, 2s 6d to 3s. Sydney, Feb. 7. In the Legislative Assembly to-night the Colonial Treasurer delivered his Budget statement, He estimates the revenue for the year at £6,819,200, and tho expenditure at £6,482,565, leaving a surplus of £336,635. This added to the surplus remaining at the close of the last financial year, gives a total estimated surplus for the year endirnr December 31st next at £2,135,574. No alterations are proposed in the Customs tariff, but it is announced that a loan will shortly be raised to recoup the «onsolidated loan fund, in which defieiences have occurred owing to the stoppage of land sales. Feb. 8. In the Budget speech last niuht, the 'Ton J. It. Dibbs, Colonial in referring to the railways of New South Wales, announced that th* G<> vernment w- re taking steps to ext< ik the line from Red fern Station to Cir cu'ar Quay, Sydney, and that a further j extension of the tramway system was also co ttemplated. He further announced that the railways during the past year ha 1 yielded 5.31 per cert on the capital invested in their construction, and that this percentage was higher than any other railway system in the world,

The Gazette to day announces . the appointment of Mr Hausman as Attorney-General of Western Australia,