TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1242, 23 September 1884, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Sept. 18. Tenders for the Sydney Municipal Loan of £258,000 at 5 per cent, were opened to-day. The total amount offered was found to be £1,250,000. Tenders at £lO9 5s 6d and upwards will receive allotment in full. Mr J. F. Garrick, Agent-General for Queensland, is pressing Lord Derby to appoint a Commissioner for New Guinea, and it is believed that Mr John Doughs, C.M.G., formerly Premier of Queensland, will be an applicant for the position." 7 .•'.<-;i ; .;'; ■■•''•' ; i.- ■■ The Oriental Banking Company have appointed Mr G. H. Traill, manager, and the staff of the old Bank in Melbourne, and Mr Balfour and the staff in Sydney, to carry on the business of the new Bank in those cities, provided there is sufficient colonial business. Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South 'Wales, will discuss the question of Sydney defences before the Admiralty next week. The Admiralty have declined to tnkethe Queensland gunboat Gayuudah out to Queensland. The captain and mate of the yacht Mignonette were brought before the Central Police Court to-day, and were committed for trial. The third survivor has been accepted as a witness for the Crown. Sept. 19. The inspired journals on the Continent assert that the Emperors of Austria, Germany and Russia were not hostile to England's claim on Egypt. A part of the French fleet is at present stationed at the island of Chusan. More deaths from cholera have occurred at Marseilles and Toulon. Professor Lowd Rayleigh, President of the British Association, in replying to the invitation from Melbourne, asking the Association to visit that city, states that the next meeting will be held in Aberdeen in 1885, and that the Committee meet in November next to decide the place of meeting for 1886. Obituary—George Bentham, C.M.G., author of the " Flora Australiensis." Sept. 20. It is reported at the Stock Exchange that the Queensland Government meditate borrowing ten millions, spread over a specified period. It is also understood that the negotiations will be placed in the hands of London financial experts. Mr Fawcett has finally decided to adhere to sending letters to New Zealand alternately by the San Francisco and Orient mails. He states that a special address to letters will be required for the Peninsula route. Mr Faff cell favors the adoption of paid mail subsidies, and adopting the system of payment by weight. Cairo, Sept, 18. Nubar Pasha, President of the Egyptian Council of Ministers, formally notified that the Commission of the Caisse de la Dette Publique, or International Tribunal of Liquidation, that in view of the deficit in the budget, the Egyptian Financial Ministry will temporarily collect and receive instead of the Caisse the revenues assigned to the service of the public debt, except as regards the payment of the October coupons. Sept. 21. Further intelligence has been received from Khartoum confirming the telegram received from that town en the 17th instant. The latest despaieh states th.it General Gordon had twice inflicted defeat upon the rebels, and repulsed them with heavy loss, compelling them to retire and raise the seige of Khartoum. The retreat of the followers of the Mahdi took place on August 30th, since which time General Gordon has heldcompletecommand of the approaches to Khartoum and the surrounding country.

A notification by Nubar Pasha that the Egyptian Government intended to resume full control of the finances of the country, in violation of the law of liquidation, has been strongly objected to by the Egyptian creditors, and protests have already been made by the Austrian, French and German Governments against the suspension of the

Caisse de la Uette Pubhque on account of the tkficit which occurred in the Egyptian national budget. New York, Sept. 20. "' A sharp shock of earthquake occurred to-day in the Western States. The disturbance was experienced over a large tract of the country, and a large number of buildings were damaged, but no loss of life has jet been reported. The New Zealand Shipping Company (Limited) have received the following cablegram, dated London, 19th Sept. : —Ruapehu, s.s., loading for Port Chalmers ; Lyttelton and Wellington, will sail from London on September 25th ; Kaikoura, s.s., follows on Oct. 23rd, for Wellington and Lyttelton, Waimea, from Napier, has arrived in the Channel. ■» AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, Sept, 19. Mr Service has re-addressed the Premiers of the various colonies, urging that the question ot annexation should be pushed forward, and that if necessary Mr:Gladstone should be addressed on the subject. Mr Service has received a reply from the Premier of. New Zealand to a telegram regarding the question of annexation. In his reply Mr Stout declares his entire concurrence in the, desire to accelerate the action of the Imperial Government in the matter.