TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1131, 26 January 1884, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Jan. 23

Tenders for the Victorian loan of £4,000,000 sterling, at 4 per cent, and par minimum, were opened to-day. The total amount offered was found to be £5,550,000. Tenders at £IOO Is 6d will receive 9 per cent, and above that price in lull.

The (J&tth is announced to-day of .to the cukcciojn, of Westminster, aged 81. *" "

The English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank has declared a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent per annum, and places 14 per cent to reserve. On arriving at Souakira, Colonel Stewart purposes advancing to Khartoum without an escort, relying upon his old friendship with the Arabs now in rebellion,

It is expected that Gordon Pasha will oppose the evacuation of Khartoum. Jan. 23.

In the course of an address to his constituents at Chelsea last night, Sir Charles Dilke alluded to the state of affairs in the Soudan, and announced that Gordon Pasha had been commissioned to execute a policy of evacuation CsicJ as regards the interior, but that it had been decided to retain possession of a boundary along the coast of the Red Sea.

It is believed by the authorities that the dynamite which was found in the tunnel near Euston Station was not placed there with the intention of causing injury to the Prince of Wales, who was about to travel on the line.

It is rumored that Lord Augustus Loftus will succeed the Marquis of Normanby as Governor of Victoria,

A large quantity of salmon and trout ova is to be shipped by the lonic to New Zealand. The estate or Messrs Alexander and Henry Brogden has been liquidated privately. Jan. 24. News is to hand from Zanzibar, reporting that the coronation of Queen Ranovolo 111., of Madagascar, has been celebrated with great rejoicings. Patriotic speeches were delivered on the occasion by the newly-crowned Queen, and by her Prime Minister, both of whom declared their determination of preserving the integrity of the kingdom against French claims, and of refusing to yield an inch of territory at the demand of the besiegers. A violent storm passed over Great Britain last night, and many wreck's attended with loss of life have occurred. Several persons were killed by falling chimnevs.

Messrs Young and Lark, Australian merchants, have sequestrated the.r estate, with time liabilities amounting to £280,000, and reported assets in the Colonies representing 30s in the £,

The Council of the London Chamber of Commerce has discussed the scheme for the Federation of the Colonies, as being one for the establishment of a great Trades Union. Paris, Jan. 23. Two transports have sailed for Tonquin with reinforcements, Pending their arrival no attack will be made upon Bacninh. Cairo, Jan. 23. It has been definitely decided to relieve the beleagured garrisons ot Sinkilt and Tokat without further delay, and active opeiations to that end are imminent.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, Jan. 23. Enquiries which have been made into the circumstances under which the murders of Beach and his wife were committed near Geelong yesterday, have led to a belief that the crime was committed from motives of revenge, and not for plunder. Black trackers have been employed to trace the criminals, but no arrests have yet been made. Jan. 24. Some clue, it is believed, has been obtained in connection with the murder recently committed near Geelong. The police have found a revolver in a pond near the scene of the outrage, and also a bullet, which it has been proved was purchased at Geelong a fortnight ago.

Nearly 4 inches of rain have fallen in Melbourne since Sunday last. Such a fan is quite unprecedented. Sydney, Jan. 24. Disastrous bush fires have been raging to-day in the neighborhood of Newcastle, and have caused great destruction to settlers’ property in the , district. Brisbane, Jan. 24. The Colonial Treasurer made his financial statement in the Legislative Assembly last night. He estimates the this year at £2,500,000, an increase of £121,000 on last year, and calculates there will be a surplus at the end of the pretent year of £BO,OOO. In the Legislative Assembly this afternoon, the Polynesian Laborers’'Bill was brought up for discussion, and read a second time.