TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1277, 13 December 1884, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Dec. 9

The Special Court to-day passed sentence of death on Captain Dudley and his mate (Stephens) of the yachs Mignonette, for the murder ot the boy Parker.

Dec. 10,

Captain Dudley and the 'mate (Stephens; of the yacht Mignonette, who were sentenced to death, have been respited. Dec. 11.

It is currently reported here that Earl Granville, the British Ministei fcr Foreign Affairs, has announced to'the Powers that he has abandoned the attempt to mediate between France, and China. No official communication is, however, yet published. , Tc-oiorrow the Agents-General will receive a copy of the amendments' proposed to be inserted in the Federation Enabling Bill. These arc believed to be of a ttifling character. A Blue Book published at the Berlin Conference provides for additional consulates for the colonies, and also that an increased display of the strength among the Polynesian group of Islands is imperative. Consul Stubal read a memorandum on Anglo-Australia, which referred geueraily to and competed for the GermaD trade to Australia.

Vienna, Dec. 10,

A violent hurricane passed over the city to-day, and caused a considerable amount of damage to property. Berlin, Dec. 9.

The International Conference have agreed to the freedom of navigation on the Congo and Niger rivers. International control, however, will be confined to the Congo, while England will control the Lower and France the Upper Niger, Paris, Di-c. 9.

Instructions have been sent to Ad iniral Courbet and Geueral DeLisle to pursue a policy of inaction and refrain from engaging with the enemy. Cairo, Dec. 9.

Judgment has been given against the Egyptian Government in the action brought by the French, Austrian, and Italian members of the Caisse of the public debt to prevent a suspension of the sinking fund. The Government have appealed against the verdict obtained by the French, Italian, and Austrian members of the Caisse of the public debt in the action brought by them on account of the suspension of the Caisse in September.

The head-'juarters of the British expedition for the relief of Khartoum will advance on Saturday next from Dongola to Ambukol. New York, Dec. 10.

The Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association report the arrival of the ship Irene, from Auckland (left Sept. Ist). ——♦■ AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, Dec. 10,

The Legislative Assembly, declining to accept the Legislative Council's amendments in the Railway Bill, has abandoned the measure, and, adopting the English precedent, a new Bill has been introduced embodying the Council's amendment in order to avert a crisis.

In consequence of the smallpox epidemic at Sydney the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand have ordered a close medical inspection of all the passengers and crews sailing for New Zealand from Melbourne and Sydney.

Dec. U

The amended Railway Bill adopted by the Legislative Assembly passed all its stages in the Council last evening, and the business of the session is dow finished.

All the convalescent smallpox patients have been released from quarantine, and the disease has now disappeared from this colony. Adelaide, Dec. 11.

Arrived, this afternoon —Orient a.s. Iberia, with the Brindisi mails, dated London, November 7th,

Sydney, Dec. 11. Arrived, last night—Rotomahana, from Auckland.

No fresh cases of smallpox have occurred in the city, but there have been further developments among the persons in quarantine.