TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1105, 15 May 1883, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN London, May 10.

The Bank rate of discount has been to day fixed at 4 per cent, being an increase of 1 per cent.

The dynamite conspirators, who were arrested in London and Birmingham last month, were again brought up at the Bow street Police Court to-day and further remanded.

At an influential meeting of shipowners held in London to-day, a Committee was appointed to take steps to promote the construction of a second canal through the Isthmus of Suez. May 11. James Mullett, who confessed to complicity in the Pius nix Park murders, has been tried for attempting to assassinate Juryman Field in November last. The jury found a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was yesterday sentenced to penal servitude for life. In the House of Commons last night one of the clauses in the Land Revenue Bill, which was under consideration, was rejected. This decision of the House is considered tantamount to a defeat of the Government. Mr Dodson, Minister of Agriculture, yesterday introduced his measure for compensation to tenant farmers. May 11. O’Brien and Doyle have pleaded guilty to complicity in the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr Burke.

The dynamite conspirators were again charged at Bow street to-day, and all were committed for trial.

The proprietors of nine lines of vessels, employing a tonnage amounting in the aggregate to 3,G00,000, supper! the scheme for making a second Suez Canal..

The Standard Oil Works, Jersey City, TT.S., have been struck by lightning, and half a million barrels of oil burned. Six lives were lost in the conflagration. Sixty thousand troops are now assembled in Moscow tor the Czar s coiouation.

Sir John Pope Hennessy has sailed for Mauritius to assume the Governorship. Prince Bismarck is reported to be quite exhausted' by the violence of constant neuralgia.

The Right Hon Mr Dodson’s new Bill compels landlords to pay outgoing tenants the value of their improvements to incoming tenants. Mr Herverd, M.P. for Bedfordshire, will move its rejection, Constantinople, May 10.

Lord Dufferm had an audience of the Sultan to-day upon his return to Stamboul, and was accorded a cordial reception by His Majesty, Calcutta, May 11.

Intelligence is to hand from Cabul that an engagement had been fought between the Ameer’s troops and a large force of the rebel Shinwarris, resulting in the complete defeat of the latter. Kingston (Jamaica), May 11.

News has reached here that rebels in Hayti have blown up a bridge at Mira' goane (sic) by dynamite and killed two hundred Haytian troops, who were operating against them.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, May 11. At the Postal Conference yesterday, resolutions were adopted in favor of joining the Postal Union. The resolutions will be forwarded to the New Zealand Government for their concurrence. Later. The Intercolonial Postal Conference concluded its sitting this afternoon. May 12. Before the conclusion of the silting of the Intercolonial Postal Conference, a resolution was pa-sed in favor of a reduction of rates on Press telegrams from Europe by 25 per cent. It was also decided that Intercolonial telegrams between Yictoiia and New South Wales should be reduced to one shilling per ten words, llio other colonies i(‘presented would not agree to a similar re duction. Melbouiink, May 11. Great satisfaction is expressed Irre at the result of the Postal Conference at Sydney.

A fatal accident occim'ed at Garden Gully Mine, Sandhurst, this afternoon, Two men wore ascending the shaft, when the bucket was somehow jerked and both men were thrown out out, and fell to the bottom of the shaft, a distance ot 170 ft. Both bodies were terribly mutilated.