TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1335, 2 May 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, April 29,

The Merchant Shipping and Underwriters’ Association report the arrival of the ship Canterbury, from Lyttelton Cleft January 37th), with 9000 carcases of mutton. The shareholders of the Orient Steam Navigation Company have decided to appoint an inspection committee, and the Directors’ report, which recommended that no dividend should be dech red this year, was adopted Tt -IS "believed-1 bat the Egyptian Go-, vernment Will apologise to Prfince Tor having suppressed the Bosphors Egyplienne paper. j Tbs Melbourne mails of March 20t b, via Naples, per the Orient Companyfa R.M.S. Chimborazo, were delivered bsfe to-day. ! The frozen mutton per the Rimutaka; is realising s£d per lb, and lamb 8d pfer lb. j The race for the City and Suburban Handicap at the Epsom Spring Meeting was won by Mr H. E. Tidy’s Bird of Freedom, with Sir G. Chetwynd’s Macabon second, and Mr E. Marstori’s Woodlarkthird. i A trial shipment of Adelaide grapes sent Home by ttfe steamer Shannon, hate arrived in a rotten condition. Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, entertains Lord Carrington, the new Governor of that colony, on the 9th May. The Duke* of Bedford and Manchester, the Karls of of Kimberley, Camperdown, Belraore, Carnarvon, and Dalhousie, Viscount Bury, Lord Dsrby, Admiral Sir Astley Cooper Key, Sir Wm, McArthur, Sir Andrew Clarke, Sir Daniel Cooper, Commodore Erskine, Mr Fairfax (of the Sydney Morning Herald), Mr W. B. Forster, Admiral Wilson, the Bishop of Bathurst, and a large number of colonists have bees invited. April 80. The sittings of the Western Pacific Commission came to a close yesterday, and the report of their proceedings is expected shortly. Cairo, April 29. The Bosphore Egyptienne difficulty has been amicably settled, Nubsr Pasha having apologised to the French Consular Agent, and the issue of the journal having re commenced. Ottawa, April 28.

News from the Saskatchewan district states the care of the wounded and the difficulties of transport are delaying Major-Gonsral Middleton’s advance, 1 and in the meantime the rebels are rapidly retiring.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, April 30. Sailed, this afternoon—Waihorst, for Auckland. The annua! meeting of the Australian Mutual Provident Society was held'here to-day, when resolutions were passed providing that in future bonuses shall become available after policies hark endured two years, and surrender values be paid after a similar period? has elapsed. The Bank of New South Wales has declared a dividend at the rate of 15 per cent, per annum for the past halfyear, together with a bonus of per cent.