TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1111, 21 June 1883, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, June 18. The latest accounts regarding the catastrophe at Sunderland states that one hundred and ninety children hare lost their lives, their ages being - from four to fourteen years. It has been Ascertained that the disaster was caused by the closing of a swing door leading from the building. A telegram has been received here reporting that the natives have butchered the whole staff of the North Borneo Trading Company stationed on the island. It is rumoured that Mr Richard O’Shannassy, M.P. for Limerick, has been appointed to the vacant Governorship of Queensland. Intelligence has been received that an engagement has taken place between the Turkish and Albanian forces, in which the latter were absolutely annihilated ; three Turkish battalions capturing all their guns. The Amsterdam Exhibition is now fully completed. Several German missionaries have been assegaied in Zululand. H.R.n. the Duke of Connaught assumes command of the Meerut military division in autumn. Later. The cause of the accident at Sunderland is attributed to the fact that the prizes were first offered to the children downstairs, and that the door was nearly closed by the doorkeeper to control the rush. The inquest on the bodies bAs been adjourned, Lord Derby, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in reply to a deputation urging the State to assist emigration, said that that would only be possible if the emigrants repaid the advances made, Mr Bright has admitted that his accusations against the Tories was too general. __ Juno 19. In the House of Commons last night, Sir Stafford Northcote moved that the Right Hon John Bright be committed for breach of privilege, for having, in the course of his recent address at Birmingham, accused the Tories of being in alliance with Irish rebels. The motion, however, was rejected. The representatives in London of the North British Borneo Company have denied the truth of the report, current yesterday, regarding the massacre of the Company’s employees by natives of the Island. The Agents-General of the various Australian Colonies and New Zealand are strongly urging the annexation of the New Hebrides Group by the Imperial Government. The difficulty in the way of carrying the project into execution, consists in an agreement between England and France to retrain from annexing any islands in the Pacific. Capetown, June 18. Intelligence is to hand ot a further difficulty between the Transvaal Boers and been received stating .ithatq the Usuba nfotcet ihtoJtheti’na'HgvaithiiWii' >arrf#‘bf v S l lWsj patthfrn ''•<7 AU Csl," 1 ,f * A \ ' ■•if •ncfmmlO -oA ,u/JA Melbourne, l^Jmtehiflioili.

Mr Service, the Premier, has'-rdn ceivcd a telegram from the Government of New Zealand, intimating that it is the latter’s intention to test in Parliament the question of sharing with other colonies the expenses of the annexation of the New Hebrides and other groups in the Pacific.