TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1097, 26 April 1883, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 23.

A box which is supposed to have contained dynamite was exploded yesIsrday close to the Imperial Small Arms Factory at Enfield, The explosion did not, however, cause any damage to the factory or buildings in the neighborhood . Two blocks of warehouses have been totally destroyed by .fire at Liverpool. The loss is estimated at £250,000. In the House of Commons to-day, Sir H;- James,- Attorney-General, moved the second reading of the Affirmation in Lieu of Oaths Bill, and the debate is now proceeding. In the appeal case of Bradlaugh v. Newdegate, judgment has been given for the appellant, and Newdegate has been condemned to pay th 6 whole of the expenses. April 24.

The distress from which the peasantry of Ireland has been suffering is being alleviated.

A Fenian attack on Curragh camp is meditated.

The Vienna bakers have struck work, The reported dynamite explosion at Enfield has proved a hoax. Mr Creighton, as representing the New Zealand Post Office in New York, is protesting against the high charges for carrying the San Francisco mail across America.

Capetown, April 21. S. J. P. Kruger, one of the Triumvirate appointed in December, 1880, pending the election o.f a President of the Transvaal, has been elected to the Presidential office. New York, April 23. News has been received here that a cyclone passed over the Mississippi States, destroying several villages and doing immense damage to property. According to the latest news, thirtysix persons lost their lives, and a hundred and fifty suffered injuries of a more or less serious nature.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, April 23,

The Legislative Assembly has resolved that hotels should be closed on Sundays, and that the mileage requirements in the case of travellers shall be increased. Melbourne, April 24, A fall of stone occurred in the Ellenborough mine at Eaglehawk lasts night, and five uaen who were in it at the time were buried iu the debriti. Two were found to have been crushed to death, but the other three were rescued, though seriously injured. The trustees of the Melbourne Library have decided in favor of opening that institution on Sundays. Obituary—Mr R. Clarke. Adblaide, April 24. The South Australian agricultural returns for the past season show that the yield of wheat was 730,000 bushels below last year. The total yield has been 7,350,000 bushels, of which 8,650,000 are available for export, the smallest quantity during the past twelve years.