TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1108, 22 May 1883, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, May 17. Baron de Lesseps has published a statement to the effect that the present Company would bo prepared to construct a second canal through the Isthmus of Suez, Joseph Mullett and E. McCaffrey have been found guilty of participation in the Phoenix Park murders, and have been sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. Thomas Boyle received a sentence of five years; and Edward O'Brien, William Maroney and Daniel Delaney, who pleaded guilty, have been sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. The Special Commission for the trial of the Phoenix Park prisoners has now closed. H.M. Gunboats Goshawk and Raven have been ordered to proceed to Australia to replace the schooners now on that station. May 18. The Aborigines Protection Society have written a letter to Earl Derby, Secretary of State for the Colonies, regarding the projected annexation of New Guinea. The Society urges that the island should be annexed to Great Britain as a Crown colony, instead of being placed under the jurisdiction of the Queensland Government, animadverting upon the outrages which are alleged to have been committed by the Queensland police upon the natives of that colony. H.R.11. the Duke of Edinburgh and Lord Wolseley have left London for Moscow to attend the coronation of the Czar on Sunday the 27th iust. Daniel Curley, the second of the Phcenix Park assassins, was executed to-day. There was an immense crowd of people outside the gaol, and much sympathy was expressed with the murderer. May 19. The P. and O. Steam Navigation Company have declared a dividend of 2£ per cent for the past half year. It is believed that the Pope's recent decisive action in reference to Irish affairs is due to the instigation of Mr Errington, M.P., and Cardinals Manning and McCabe. The clergy in Ireland tacitly acquiesce in the decision of his Holiness, but the leaders of the Land League assume an attitude of defianco. St, PETBRS3una, May 18, Several officers of the Imperial Guard in this city, have been arrested, charged with being members of a secret revolutionary club. Paris, May 19. Various conflicting accounts have been published here regarding the alleged death of the Comte de Chambord, but no official announcement has yet been made. Capetown, May 19. Confirmatory intelligence has been received here regarding affairs in isululand, and the statement that an attack was on Sunday last made by Cetewayo upon Ohau, one of the Zulu Chiefs who refused to acknowledge the reinstatement of the King. It is now definitely known that Cetewayo was repulsed, but the report that he had suffered heavy loss has received no official confirmation. San Francisco, May 19, The Pacific mail steamship City of New York arrived here from Auckland yesterday, the lime-table date. New York, May 19. Information has been rccived here |o the effect that a cyclone has passed over the States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois. Many lives were lost,, and much damage has ken done to property by the storm.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE

Sydney, May 19

The Supreme Court lias decided that steam tramways are illegal, and as all the Government trams in this city are worked by steam motors, a special Cabinet meeting has been called for today, to consider the difficulty. Melbourne, May 'IS. The rumor that a manager of a bank at Eaglehawk, at Sandhurst, has been guilty of defalcations is now confirmed. The defaulter's name is Young. He was the manager of the local 'branch of the Bank of Victoria.

May 19. The Argus in a leading artic'e, supports Mr Twopenny's proposal for holding a Colonial exhibition in London. Adelade, May 18. The population of South Australia on, March 31st last is estimated by the Registrar-General at 300,000.