TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1276, 11 December 1884, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Dec. 6

The parleying which has been proceeding between the representatives of England and Spain has resulted in the latter giving a pledge to support an Anglo-Spanish Commercial Convention. Dec. 6. The French Senate has rejected the amendment by the Chamber of Deputies that they (the Senate) should be elected by universal suffrage. The Investigation Committee of the Consolidated Telephone Company reaffirm that Sir Julius Vogel, one of the Directors, enriched himself by means of the Company, and endorses the advice of the counsel that a lawsuit should be instituted to recover the enormous profits made by him. Dee. 8,

News has been received here of the loss of the steamer Dachard near Holyhead, on the North Welsh Coast. Hei crew, numbering 30, were drowned. The vessel was bound from Cork to Rotterdam.

Mr J. T. Hilbert, M.P. for Oldham and Political Secretary to the Home Office, has been appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury vice Mr Leonard H. Courtney, resigned. The homeward Brindi.-i mails, per Orient Company’s s.s. Potosi, from Melbourne, dated October 31st, were delivered to-day.

Dec. 9

Mr Woodward, of the Trinity College, Melbourne, has won the Hartford College scholarship. At the Berlin Conference it was decided that England should control the lower, and France the upper, portion of the river Niger. There is no truth in the report current that Sir Wm. Jervois, Governor of New Zealand, is to succeed Lord Augustus Loftus in the Governorship of New South Wales. Bombay, Dec. 8.

Earl Dufferin, who succeeds the Marquis of Ripon as Viceroy of India, arrived here to-day, and was accorded a cordial welcome.

Paris, Dec. S,

A despatch is to hand from Tonqnin which states that desultory fighting has occurred between the French forces and the Chinese troops. The French have been generally successful, and the Chinese are now retreating in consequence of the defeats inflicted upon them.

Cairo, Dec. 6,

Detachments of the 19th Hussars and Ist Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment have arrived at Dougola and proceeded to Dehhah, A messenger from Khartoum reports that when he left the Mahdi’s forces were only three hours’ march distant from the city. He also states that several of Gordon’s steamers have been harrass mg the enemy and capturing their provisions.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE

Hobart, Dec. S

Arrived, on Saturday evening—N.Z Shipping Company’s steamship Kaikoura, from Plymouth. She sailed for New Zealand yesterday morning. Melbourne, Dec. 9. Sailed, this morning— Waihora, for the Bluff.

No fresh cases of smallpox have occurred hero during the last three weens. The patients at the hospital are now convalescent.

The lockout in the boot trade continues, and the brach between master bootmakers and 0j datives is widening. Sydney, Dec. 9

In Baneo in Court to-day judgment in favor of the plaintiff was delivered in the appeal case A. G. Taylor, the Member for Mudgee, v. the H"n. Edmund Barton, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. The Bencli held that the Assembly bad no power either to adopt the foims of the Imperial Parliament, or to pass on its own account any Standing Orders giving itself authority to punish any obstructing member or remove him for any period longer than the sitting during which the obstruction occurs.

Additional cases of smallpox s hare occurred here.