TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1145, 6 September 1883, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. Loi&GN, Sept. 3.

Accounts are to hand of a dastardly outrage which has been committed at New Ross, County Watford. A party of forty harvesters, who were engaged in getting in crops on a property in the vicinity of the town, were boycotted by the residents. Subsequently, however, they were supplied with food; which proved to have been poisoned. The atrocity was successful, two of the men having died and others being in a critical state.

M, Ivan, a Servian General, is attempting to organise a quasi military trading English expedition to New Guinea.

Sept, 4.

A gale of unparalleled fury raged yesterday on the South coast, and reports of numerous wrecks are to hand from various places. The number of vessels lost has not yet been ascertained, but it is known to be exceptionally large. Telegrams which have been received here state that according to some estimates 75,000 persons lost their lives by the recent tidal wave and .earthquake in Java.

Australian hops-‘are quoted at £9 per cwt. The recent volcanic eruptions at Java have changed the Straits of Sunda and endangered the navigation, The Admiralty have ordered that a survey he made without delay.

An extension of the Austro-German alliance has been arranged. The latest despatches received from Hong Kong state that the relations between China and France are daily becoming more strained, and that war between those countries is inevitable. The Chinese are sending a large number of reinforcements to Canton. Paris, Sept. 2. The late Comte de Ghamhord having decided in his will that his nearest relative should act as chief mourner at his funeral, the Comte de Paris declined to attend the celebration of the. funeral rites. 'Berlin, Sept. 2. The express train from this city on arriving at Stegliz (sic Strelitz) 1 ,ran beyond the proper stopping place at that elation and into a crowd of people. Forty persons were killed or seriously injured. Vienna, Sept. 3, The funeral of the late Comte de Chambord took place to-day at Golitz, near Trieste. None of the Orleanist Princes attended the ceremony. The Magyar disturbance in Crotia still prevail. In various towns serious rioting has taken place, and the military had to be called out to restore order. Later. It is announced that a military commander is to be appointed to administer the Government of the Province of Croatia, in place of the Ban (Viceroy), who has hitherto filled , the position, | Alexandria, Sept. 3. The cholera epidemic is now showing undoubted signs of abatement, and there is every reason to believe that no further outbreak will occur. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, Sept. 3. Mr Service has agreed that the Annexation Conference should be held at Sydney, in the beginning of October, in order to suit the convenience of New South Wales, and he is now consulting the other colonies with the view to a general agreement as to the date. Brisbane, Sept. 4; The second engineer of the steamship Duke of Westminster, now quarantined here, has been attacked with smallpox,

Mr Lauchlan Mackinuon, cne of the proprietors of the Melbourne Argus, in a letter to the Standard, warns Lord Derby that the refusal of the Imperial Government to annex the Pacific Islands will lav the foundation of discontent and distrust among the colonies, ultimately resulting in separation. The Standard considers that the meetings held in Australia in regard to the annexation question shows ithat the threats made by the colonies in reference to it are not merely idle ones.