TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1312, 7 March 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, March 3,

The Merchant Shipping and Underwriters’ Association report that the steamer-Braeraer, bound from Glasgow to Port Chalmers, and which was dismasted and put into Stornoway, has been towed to Greenock for repairs. Arrived, at Plymouth Austral from Melbourne (loft January 23rd),

: Messrr Young .and Lai fc. _ Ajii&alian merchants, who filed some time ago, have made an offer of 15s in the £, in monthly payments extending oyer a period of two years, on the balance of debts due by them. This offer has been accepted by most of the creditors. Prince Bismarck complains that the Blue Book issued on New Guinea contains confidential despatches. Speaking in the Reichstag he warned the members that if they opposed his colonial policy he would appeal to the country.

The proposal to establish a Bishopric in Fiji has been abandoned. Mr Gladstone is at present confined to his room by a feverish cold.

The German Press state that Earl Granville is sowing seeds of distrust between France and Germany.

March 4, Mr Gladstone is still in a weak condition, but his health is improving. The frozen meat ex Orient steamship Austral has arrived in good condition.

The German annexation of the territory adjacent to Zanzibar onsts tbe Glasgow Colonising Company who previously occupied it. A new Governor has been ippointed to succeed Lord Augustus Loftns as Governor of New South Wales, but bis name has not been disclosed. It is, however, understood that he occupies a high position and is wealthy. A hundred and eighty thousand salmon ova are to be shipped for New Zealand by the Shaw-Savill and Albion Company’s steamer A raws.

The German Government intend to colonise that portion of Neff Guinea recently annexed by them.

The London Chamber of Commerce has appointed a committee to confer with the various shipowners with regard to bills of lading, Should any of Murdoch's cricketing team visit England next year they will be excluded from Lords and the Oval grounds, and probably from Nottingham. The Anglo-German Commission adjudicates upon the claims of German subjects in Fiji, and upon the working of the Western Pacific. It will assemble without delay. Mr J. B. Thurston, Colonial Secretary for Fiji, will act as British Commissioner.

Diplomatic relations between England and Germany are at present somewhat strained, in consequence of the contents of the English Blue Book, and the German White Book on colonial affairs recently issued by Bismarck. It is understood he complains of the publication in the Blue Book of the report of an interview which took place between him■elf and Sir Edward Malet, British Am. bassador. Telegrams from Berlin state that the Nord Deutsche Zeitung, refering to the English Blue Book, says the publication of the interview was malevolent, and can only put an end to all confidential parleying. The Shaw-Savill and Albion Company’s steamship Arawa, from New Zealand ( 'eft Wellington January 21st), arrived at Plymouth last evening. Her cargo of meat is in good condition. March. 5.

Count Herbert Bismarck, Acting--11 nder-Secretary of Stale, is parleying with Lord Granville,

It is proposed to increase the English army by 15,000 men. The Very -Rev. Canon Walsh, D.D,, President of Maynooth College, will succeed the late Archbishop McCabe as Avohbishop of Dublin, Berlin, March 3.

It is announced that Germany has assumed a protectorate over the territory hitherto held by the Colonising Society, situated to the westward of Zanzibar, on the African coast. Washington, March 4.

President Cleveland drl vered an inaugural message to Congress at bis installation to-day, on assuming office.

The speech re-affirms the principle of the Monroe doctrine, and urges aroidsnci of entangling alliances with other cbatitrie?. It recommends a reform of. the Civil Service, the granting of equality of freedom, the repression of polygamy; tad exclusion of the Chinese from the United States. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, March 4. Parliament has been summoned to meet on the 17th inst. Adelaide, r March 4. - • Sir Wm. Jeryois arrired here to-day from Melbourne.