TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1237, 9 September 1884, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Sept. 4 The Cologne Gazette announces tha > Dr Nachtigal, the German Commis sioner now on the West African coast has formally annexed the town an< district of Little Popo, on the Guine; coast, near Dahomey. The Bank of Australasia has declarer a dividend at the rate of 14 per cen per annum for the past half-year, anc carries forward and places to the reservi £24,000. The Oriental Bank have allotted i quarter of a million pounds worth o shares to Au?tralia. Business is flowing in steadily, and old depositors are largelj supporting the BankThe British Association have been invited to make an early visit to Melbourne. Sir R. Torrens was hurried at Luesden. Sir Arthur Blyth, Messrs Fisher and Dutton were amongst those presentSept. 5. The cargo of frozen meat ex ship Mataura is ol fair quality, but not equal to the meat landed from the British Queen, which is considered excellent. The British Association will hold their next meeting in Aberdeen. Sept 6. The cargo of frozen mutton ex steamship Bombay, has been landed in excellent condition. A boat containing three men, belonging to the yacht Mignonette, bound from London to Sjdney, but abandoned at sea, was picked up south of the equator, A boy who left the yacht with the others, died on the nineteenth day after abandoning the vessel, and was eaten by the survivors. A vessel containing the cargo boats intended for use on the Nile, in connection with the projected British expedition into the Soudan, will leave London on Monday, The remainder of the boats are to be sent to Egypt shortly. Teenier, the sculler, Las challenged both Hanlan and Beach to row a race in England for £SOO a side. The team of cricketers which Lillywhite proposes to send to the colonies next season does not include the names of the Gentlemen Players. Von Janiczek, the Austrian Consul at Smyrna, will shortly leave in a man-of-war on a visit to Australia and the Pacific Islands to report on the facilities and desirability of opening up trade with those places. Vienna, Sept. 4, Earl Northbrook, who is now en route to Egypt to investigate the position of affairs in that country on behalf of the British Government, paid a visit to Count Kalnocky, the Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to-day. The interview, which lasted some time, was of a most cordial nature. Naples, Sept. 4. The cholera epidemic in this city is rapidly increasing, and the disease has assumed a most virulent form. The cases now number a hundred daily, and most of them terminate fatally. The inhabitants of the city are terror-stricken and obstruct the authorities and "medical men iu their efforts to stamp out the disease. ' St. Petersburg, Sept. 5. Rigorous measures have been adopted at Warsaw for the safety of the Czar whilst in that city. Alexandria, Sept. 5. News has been received that the Arab rebels recently made « vigorous attack on the town of Kassala. They were, however, repulsed by the Egyptian garrison with heavy loss. Capetown, Sept. 5. Ket Joubert has beer. elected President of the recently proclaimed Boer Republic in Zululand. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Sept. 5. Arrived, yesterday morning—Steamship Wakatipu, from Wellington. Sailed, yesterday afternoon —Manapouri, for Auckland. All the smallpox patients are progressing favorably. Sept. 6. Professor Liversige, of the Sydney University, states that the telegram sent to the meeting of the British

Association at Montreal, was to the following effect :—" Mr Caldwell finds that the monotreme mammals of Australia are oviparous, but > that their ovum is meroblastic, or only 'partially germinal." Melbourne, Sept, 5. Arrived, this morning—Union s.s. Waihora, from Bluff. '' Letters which have been received here from passengers by the steamship Lusitania, which left 0n... July 25th for. London, state that a fire broke out on board shortly before the vessel reached Diego Garcia. It is . understood the charcoal around the refrigerator ignited, -The fire, howeTer, was extinguished in a few hours, and no serious damage was caused. Adelaide, Sept. 5. The House of Assembly has adopted the resolutions of the Sydney Convention regarding the proposed Federal Council, and will on Tuesday next vote an address to the Queen covering the same. 'ii ' ■'■■