TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1088, 29 March 1883, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, March 26. In consequence ol the fears entertain ;d of Fenian outrages, two thousand men from the various infantry regiments have been told off as guards for the different public buildings in London, and strong detachments of the Coldstream Guards, from Chelsea barracks, are protecting the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace. ' Intelligence is to hand that a series of avalanches have occurred at Mount "Ararat, in Armenia, A nun*her of villages have been completely destroyed and hundreds of people killed. It is believed in Trebizond that Russia will occupy Armenia in the spring. An eruption of Mount Hecla has occurred. Tlie Khedive proposes that Prince Hassara shall command the army in the Soudan.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE

Melbourne, March 26. At the election for West Bourke today, the Hon A. Deakin, Minister for Public Works, was re-elected, defeating Sir Bryan O’LoghLn by a large majority. The state of the poll was —Deakin, 1882; O’Loghlen, 1186, Sydney, March 27. The Easter encampment ol Volunteers at Windsor and Middlehead passed off most successfully. There was immense traffic yesterday on trams and railways, and the harbor steamers were crowded with excursionists. At one o'f the favorite resorts, Balmoral, the steamer jetty, when covered with people, collapsed, and numbers wore precipitated into the water, but all were speedily rescued.