TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1135, 5 February 1884, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Jan. 31. Parliament meets on Tuesday next sth February. The Opposition Whip has already announced the intention of his party to move an amendment on the Address in Reply to the Queen’s Speech, condemning the policy pursued by the Government in Egypt. It has been arranged that Mrßradlaugh shall appear at the Bar of the House on February l-ltiVj'and make a further appeal for admission to Parliament.

Thomas and Sous, stockbrokers, have become defaulters for the amount of £BOO,OOO, and the principal in the firm has absconded.

The shipment of butter ox Chirabo razo has realised thirteen pence per lb. It is reported not to have been sufficiently salted. A Russian Envoy has left for Honolulu in order to present a diamond decoration to King Kalakauaof the Sandwich Islands. Feb. I, The inquiry into the wreck of the Duke of Westminster on the Coast of the Isle of Wight, was concluded to-day. The Court found the master at fault, and suspended his certificate for six months.

Bishop Barry’s library was on board the Simla, and has been lost. The reports about the French troops having been repulsed at Bacninh are not confirmed.

The Gazette to-day contains an announcement conferring the following honors :—To be Knights Commanders of the Order of St Michael and St George, Hon Frederick Whitaker, exPremier of New Zealand, and Sir George Wigram Allen Knight, exSpeaker of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales. To be Companions of the same Order, Mr Murray Smith, Agent-General for Victoria, and Mr Thomas Archer, late Agent-General for Queensland. Fully 60 per cent of the New Zealand frozen meat per lonic was damaged by fire.

Acceding to the request of the Victorian Government, PostmasterGeneral Fawcet t has agreed to cancel the order requiring letters to bear special directions as to the route by which they are to be forwarded to Australia. Feb. 2.

The P. and O. steamship Ballarat, leaving for Australia, takes the following specie shipments : —£150,000 for Adelaide ; £70,000 for Melbourne ; and £2uO,COO for Sydney. It has transpired that Thomas and Sons, stockbrokers, who have become defaulters for an amount of £BOO,OOO, have defrauded the London Chartered Bank of Australasia to the extent of £120,000 by wholesale appropriation of securities belonging to the Bank’s customers. An East Indian Institution is also reported to have been the victims to the extent of £50,000. Mr Postmaster-General Fawcett states that many thousand of letters and papers, obviously intended for transmission by the P. and O. mail boats to Australia, are every week detained owing to the regulations as to special address. Sir Hercules Robinson will return to the Governorship of the Cape shortly.

More gold withdrawals for Australia are expected at an early date. A slight fall in the London Chartered Bank’s stock has taken place. The Dunedin’s cargo of frozen meat is realising per !h. Lo Temps says that the only effect of the Kecidivisite scheme will he to swell the ranks of ruffianism in the Pacific by the banishment thither of those whom it has been proved impossible to reform, Vienna, Jan. 31. Owing to the number of murders and outrages recently committed by the Socialists, ordinary law has been suspended in this city and suburbs, and martial law has been proclaimed. Much ahum prevails at the disturbed state of affairs. Feb. 1. Several arrests have been made of persons implicated in the recent outrages, and the expulsion from the city of many others concerned in the Socialist agitation will he ordered.

Paris, Feb. ]. A French Goycrmnent loan of £14,000,000 sterling is announced. Cairo, Jan. 31. News has heen received here that the garrison at Sinkat is now without food. Owing to a number of Arabs surrounding the town, relief is impossible. Feb. 2. News has been received here that Baker Pasha, after landing at Trinkitat, made a rcconnaisance in force, and had a skirmish with the enemy. The latter fled southwards. Baker’s cavalry pursued the rebels for t-evera! miles, killing hundreds of them.

Gordon Pasha, (he recently-appointed Governor of the Soudan, passed through Korosko yesterday, and entered the desert en route for Khartoum. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, Feb. 1. At a meeting of Riverina residents to-night, a Committee was appointed to inaugurate a Separation League. . Feb. 2. The officers of the Melbourne office of the London Chartered Bank of Australia, state that according to Loudon advices the Bank’s losses by the defalcation of Thomas and Sons will not exceed £90,000 —more than covered by the reserve fund, which is invested in consols, apart from ordinary business. Sydney, Feb. 1. In the course of a debate in the Legislative Assembly to-day, an angry altercation took place between the Hon Robert Wisdom and Mr Buchanan. Subsequently both went into the Speaker’s retiring room, and while there Mr Wisdom struck Mr Buchanan and both rolled on the floor. The House broke up in confusion, and the galleries were cleared. On the return of the members an excited debate ensued, and Mr Wisdom was ordered to attend the House on Tuesday next on a charge of breach of privilege, Brisbane, Feb. 2. A hurricane of a most severe character hai been experienced at Bowen, a seaport town about 725 miles north of this city. The wind blew for some hours w ith terrific force and caused immense destruction, every building in the town being more or less damaged, and many being blown down. Hundreds of people have been rendered homeless. Both bank nuildings have been razed to the ground and all the hotels have been so damaged as to be unfit for occupation. 'The jetty has been blown away, and the steamer Fiado, which was lying alongside it, has been driven aground, So f..r as is known, no loss of life has been caused.