TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1186, 3 June 1884, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, May 29.

The death i» announced to-day of Sir Henry Bartle Frere, Bart., a well-known ex-colonial Governor, aged 69. Telegrams are to hand from Gibraltar that Lieut.-General de Nachlegal, of the German army, is now in that port, and is about to proceed in a Germnn gunboat to formally occupy the territory of Angra Pequena, on the West Coast of Africa, which for some time past has been a German settlement, and regarding which diplomatic negotiatioue hare passed between the British and German Governments, owing to a dispute which occurred in October last between a firm of German merchants at the settlement, and the captain of a British schooner* over the question of payment of Customs dues.

May 30.

The prospectus of a new Oriental Bank has been issued. The capita! of the institution will be two millions sUrling. The tender for the Queensland loan of £2,670,000, bearing interest at I per cent, the minimum being fixed at. 98, were opened to-day. The tenders were found to amount to a total of £ 9,000,000. Tenders at £99 8s will receive 40 per cent of the allotment, »nd tenders above that price will receive in full. Both the ProTincial and London Press strongly condemn the Government for parleying about the French demands for a multiple control and a limitation of the occupation of Egypt to two years. The Conference is to meet in Londoß on June 23rd, but it is only to consider questions of finance.

The Pall Mall Gazette re-asserts that Turkey has agreed to send 15,000 troops to Upper Egypt and the Soud»n. The Times alleges that the most faithful adherents of the Liberal party regard Mr Gladstone's Egyptian policy as shameful.

Sir Henry Parke* if believed to hare succeeded in the principal object of his visit to England, but be is delayin.7 his return owing to some negotiations which are in progress relating to the investment of a large amount of capital in the colonies. He is expected to sail for New "York bj the Germanic on Jul/ 2nd. Sir Garan Duffy has announced his intention of publishing a series of papers on the lines of the Young Ireland Party, He considers the present National movement too selfish, and urges a revival of the College Green Parliament as it existed previous to the Union. It is likelr that he will start a newspaper in Dublin with the object of placing his views before the public. Arrangements are being made for holding a universal Exhibition at Paris in 1889, to celebrate the centenary anniversary of the French revolution. At a meeting of the Suez Canal Company the arrangements concluded be tween Baron de Lesseps and the representatives of the English shipowners were formally approved,

May 31.

An important article appears in the Fortnightly Review, and is Attributed to Mr Gladstone, which describe! the. main objection to the foreign policj of England as being that it retains the friendship of Russia and France. Victoria is supporting the movement to appoint a second liquidator for the Oriental Bank. The liquidator will probably make a call of £25 per share, but will nllow payment by instalment in certain cases.

The French demand for Australian wheat cargoes has continued, but the Home purchasers are few, and the average price is i\ *.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE

Melbourne, Msy 80

The report of the Melbourne Frown Meat Export Company, presented at the annual meeting yesterday, showed a small profit on the past year's business. The future'prospects of the Company are stated to be encouraging.. The Victorian Navigation Board has complained to the Adelaide Marine Board of their want of assistance in preventing Captain Lockyer from sailing ia the itesmihip Adelaide. Ths Ads-

laide Board, however, declined to taka any Action in the mutter, ? * Edgar Bastings, one of the cabifr passengers per steamer Ringarooaig, which arrived here this morning; ednimitted suicide yesterday by jumpirjg overboard. His body .ifas but life was then extinct.