TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1315, 14 March 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London,. March 10.

Mr Edmond Talas, proprietor of the World newspaper, has been released from Halloway gaol. In the House of Lords to-day, Earl Granville, in reply to questions, staled that Government have no inf rmaib n regarding the pulling down of the British flag in Victoria, on the Cameroon liver, by the G rn>«n<, and that he was convinced Prince Bis march's present attiiude will prevent any trouble in West Africa.

A -number of.the creditors of the Oriental Bank are accepting 17s in the ±, as full satisfaction of tlnir debts. They are now receiving 10s of thet amount, and will receive the remaining 7s in September, It is believed that at least half of the creditors will accept these terms.

The Press generally are as to the popularity of the appointment of Lord Carrington as Governor of New South Wales.

M»rch 11.

Mr George Anderson, M.P. for Glag gow, who has been appointed DeputyMaster of the Royal Mint at Melbourne, has been presented with a testimonial by his constituents and friends.

It is improbable that any reduction in the present Bank rate will now lake place. Mr Benjamin St. John Ackers, Conservative, has been elected to the House of Commons for West Gloucestershire, vice Colonel llobeit Nigel Kingscole, C. 8., Liberal, resigned.

'lhe Australian and New Zealand mails via Han Francisco, dated Auck land, January 6th, were delivered to-day, March 12.

In replying to enquiries made hy Mr T. W. Cheseon, Secretary of the Abori. gines’ Society, the ilon. J. B. Inurston, Colonial Secretary for Fiji, rebutted the statements in circulation accusing the colonists in Fiji of perpetrating acts of cruelty on the native inhabitants.

Sir Saul Samuel will give a banquet lo Lord Carrington, the New Governor of New a oath Wales. The Directors of the Australian Electric Light Company have refused to resign office, Lord Carrington, the Governor elect of New South Wales, will sail for Sydney in October. Berlin, March 12.

The Norde Deutsche Zeitung has an article to-day on the relations between England and Germany, which ia of a reassuring character, Madrid, March 14.

The Cortes has ratified the commercial treaty concluded between England and Spain. Honq Kono, March 12,

The latest reports from Formosa announce that the French forces recently stormed the Chinese position of Kelung for five days, but without success. In the fighting which took place the French lost 240 killed. Capetown, March 12.

Intelligence is to hand that the Br» tish troops, under Colonel Warren, have reached Rio Grand, in Bechoanaland, and hoisted the British flag thereon without opposition. Rio db Janeiro, March 11.

The Shaw-Savill and Albion Company’s steamship lonic from Wellington (Feb. 15th) left this morning tor Plymouth, tier cargo of frown meat is in good condition.

• AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, Match 11.

The Ringarooraa’s passenger* were released from quarantine to-lay, n<» fr- sh cases of smallpox haring occurred. The patient James is progressing ycy favorably towards recovery.

Government have ordered that active steps are to be taken to strengthen th« local defences.

The replies of Victoria, South Australia, Queensland and Tasmania re garding the amended draft of the Federation Bill will be forwarded immediately to the Imperial Government through Sir Arthur Blyth, AgentGeneral for South Anstralia. Melbourne, March 12.

Despatches from Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania,

on tlie subject of Federation, have been forwarded to London. New South Wales has not jet replied, and it is understood here that the New Zealand Government general;j objects to Lord D rbj’s amendments to the draft Bill. Ihe official statistics just published give ti e toial j’e'd of wheat in Victoria for last season as 10.300,000 bushels, or an average of 9,49 bushels per acre, the fields of oats and potatoes show • decrease compared with last year. Armed, l»*t nitrh'—Wairarsps,