TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1163, 20 October 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND .FOREIGN. London, Oct. 16.

A serious riot occurred last evening at Gravesend between a number of roughs ami a detachment of the (Salvation Army that was parading' the streets. The fighting lasted some time, and the disturbance was only quelled by a body of police arriving on the scene, , The shipment of frozen mutton by the steamship British King arrived in good condition. The first portion was placed on the market to-day, and realised 6|d per lb. .! Oct. 17. A great congress of Liberals met today at Leeds. Delegates from all parts of the Kingdom were present, besides a number of Members of Parliament be broagfat

before the Congress is the .extension of the franchise, and at an inaugural nessii n to-day the leaders of the party delivered ' addresses bearing chiefly upon that sub- / ject. A. The shipment of frozen meat by x the steamship Catalonia, trom New Zealand, has been found to be in good condition. A portion of it was placed on the market to-day and realised 6d per lb. The London meat market is at present glutted, and lower prices lor all descriptions are ruling. The Duo De Fernan Nunez, Spanish '., Ambassador at" Paris, who resigned, has withdrawn his resignation. "' ' Twenty thousand persons have been rendered homeless by the earthquake at Aivali. One thousand lives Were lost. General Mclvor of the of the Servian army, who for some time past has been actively engaged in organising a quasimilitary expedition to New Guinea, 'states that,subscriptions, towards, defraying the cost of it amount to £20,600, and that applications from 500 arewilling to join have been received. Oct.; 18. The Figaro states that French sailors ! have butchered hundreds of the restd'ents • of Hue, refusing quarter to allVrfnd the "wounded were bayonetted. ' ' "11 A; lettor to the Times watrisjthe public of.the danger of acceptingiithe Bch^me'of General Mclvcir forf;heiselltle'f.ment'of New Guinea; -» .;; T,he trial of O'Donnell for the niurder < f 6f JainerCarey has been c poStponed uo"■'l titnextrnbfjtli. - 1 ' '"', ; 7.7". ■ ;;^ . , ~., . r .;.- Lisbon, Oct. 16. t ( ..-;> |A Republican outbreak ,of some magnitude has occuried, among the peasantry ih'the'westein portion of this country. . .. A large, number of .the rebels are armed, ,■'. cand a body of troops despatched against them were repulsed. Several persons have been wounded, but no deaths are leported to have occurred, 'Oct. 18. ' The outbreak among the peasantry in the western provinces has been completely' quelled and a number of the Republican agitators have been arrested by the troops who were despatched to the scene of the rising. •-■>'' -.■■'■■■'■'■ Capetown; Oct. 16. Telegrams from Pietermaritzburg announce that Cetewayo has yielded to the representations of Mr Osborne, and agreed to surrender himself to the British authorities. The King crossed the border into Natal to-day with an escort of British troops.

Washington, Oct 16

The Governor of Utah Territory recommends that a military force should be employed to enforce the laws of the Union against the Mormons.

Constantinple, Oct. 17,

The latest accounts from Anatolia, in Asia Minor, the scene of the recent earthquake, show that the catastrophe was one of extreme severity. Several villages were completely wrecked by the repeated shocks, and it is reported on good aathority that thousands of persons were killed and that fully twenty thousand are homeless and in great distress.