TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1087, 27 March 1883, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

London, March 20,

Mr Poyne, a Parnellite, lias been elected without opposition to the vacancy which has occurred in the representation of Tipperary in the House of Commons.

It is announced that Mr C. P, Butt, Q.C., the Liberal M.P. for Southampton, has been appointed Judge in the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the Supreme Court of Judicature vice the Right- lion. Sir Robert Philmore, Bart., resigned. March 21. A somewhat powerful movement against the employment of Irish is b> ing organised in Liverpool, and is expected to extend to other towns.

The death is announced to-day of the Right Hon. Sir George Jasel, Master of the Rolls, aged 59.

News is to hand from South America that hostilities have been resumed between Chili and Bolivia, and that large forces of Chilians are now marching on La Paz, a large town in the latter country, March 22.

Her Majesty the Queen is confined to her room at Windsor Castle, owing to the effects of a recent fall down a staircase. The injury wag originally only trivial, but Her Majesty's knee has since become badly swollen, and complete rest is necessary. March 23.

The six men who were arrested at Belfast charged with conspiracy to murder Irish landlords, have been tr.ed and found guilty, but their sentences have not yet been pronounced by the Court.

The Queen is -improving in health, the swelling in her knee having greatly lessened.

March 24

Great alarm is being folt in the neighborhood of Chatham by a belief that the Fepians" have projected an attack by means of dynamite upon the dockyard arsenal, and great vigilance is being shown by the nvlitiry authorities to guard against the expected attack.

The death is announced of the Hon Arthur Macalister, C.M.G., late AgentGeneral in London for Queensland. The Right Hou. Anthony Mnndella, Vice-President of the Council of Education, is indisposed. Parii, March 21.

De Brazza has organised a large party, and has started on another expedition to the Congo, in Central Africa.

March 22

The anarchists who were recently arrested here on account of disturbances in the Place ties Invalids, have now been released from custody. Naples, March 19.

Telegrams have been received from Messina announcing that Mount Etna is now in a very violent state of eruption, «nd that, as a result, severe shocks of earthquake have been experienced over the island of Sicily. St, Petersburg, March 20.

Intelligence is to hand from Moscow that the Governor of that city has received a communication warning him that the Kremlin, the citadel in which the Emperor is to be crowned, will he blown up unless a charter is granted before the coronation takes place. Cairo, March 20.

It is announced that Earl Dufferin will return to Constantinople early in May, by which time he will have completed the object (f his special mission to Egypt.

Washington, March 23.

It is reported that the Hon L, S. Sackville-West, the British Minister, has drawn the attention ot the United States GoTernraent to the nature of the language employed by American Fenians, who urge the use of dynamite in order to obtain redress for their alleged grievances, and has informed the American Ministry that the use of Buch language by American subjects will, if unchecked, tend to impair the relations between the United States and Great Britain.

A repott is current here that this person alleged to be the leader of the Dublin ' Inner Circle ' of assassins, and known as ' Number One,' has escaped to Mexico and is beyond pursuit.

Capetown, March' 22

Intelligence is to hand from Temba ■ land, in the Transkei, that the B'kts have refused the demand of the British authorities thit they should forthwith quit the territory. The Boers are understood to be now arming and massing, and an outbrenk of hostilities is feared.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Bkisbane, March 24. It is reported here that the Queensland Government has instructed the Police Magistrate at Thursday Island to take possession of New Guinea,