TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1358, 27 June 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, June 22. Mr Hugh Holmes, Q. 0., has been appointed Attorney-General, and Mr John Monroe, Q.C., Solicitor General for Ireland. IL r Majesty .the Queen has arranged a compromise between the leaders, and it has m-w been agreed to pass the Federation Enabling Bill. June 23. The difficulty which has arisen between Lord Salisbury and the Libera) parly on the question of the passing of the Redistribution of Seats Bil, has been arranged, and the measure was finally passed by the House of Lords to-day, after which the House adjourned until Thursday next. The Home of Commons met, and adjourned until tomorrow (Wednesday), when new writs rendered necessary by the appointment of Ministers will be issu<d. June 24.

The Right Hon. Sir Win. Hart Dyke, M.P. has been, appointed Chief Secre iary for Ireland. It is announced that Sir Henry Drummond Wolff replaces Sir Evelyn Baring as British ConsulGeneral in Egypt. Archbishop Moran, of Sydney, will be created a Cardinal in July, This is regarded merely as a prelude to bis being appointed Archbishop of Dublin, Mr Henry Chaplin, member for MiJLincolnshire, will be Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; the Right Hon, David R. Plunket, Q.C., Minister for Works and Public Buildings ; and it is considered probable vital Mr Wm. J, Harris, M.P. for Poole, will be Undersecretary for India, and Lord JDunraven Under-Secretary for the Colonies in the new Ministry. Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, and Mr J, S. Garrick, Agent-General for Queensland, have applied on behalf of their respective Governments tor additional space at the fortcoraing Colonial Exhibition. The Ageuts-General have interviewed the Right Hon. F. Stanley the new Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the reuidiviste question.

Mr Murray-Smith, Agent-General for Victoria, has addressed a letter to tbo Hon. P. Stanley, in which he combats Sir F. D. Bell's advocacy of the compromise on the Federation Enabling Bill, as suggested by Mr Griffiths, Premier of Queensland. Sir Saul Samuel has purchased the compass used by Captain Cook. Mr Charles Todd, C.M.G.,. Post-maslei-General and Superintendent of Telegraphs of South Australia, opposes the proposal to connect. Roper river, in the Northern Territory, with.:Nprmanton, in Queensland, by cable,' preferring that communication should be made overland from Normanton, connecting with Port Darwin line at Daly Waters. Mr Todd also proposes that the system of urgent telegrams should be, introduced, thus giving priority over ordinary cablegrams.

Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Germany haying disapproved of the marriage of her sister, Princess Beatrice, with Prince Henry of Batten burg, she will not attend the wedding. To-day’s Gazette contains the announcement of the appointment, of Sjr R, Hart, late Chinese Commissioner of Customs, as British Minister, at Pekin, in the room ol the late Pir Harry Parkes.

The members of the n w Ministry w<iv sworn in yesterday. He Right lion. R. Botirkn has been appointed Under-Secretary-for Foreign Affiirs. It is. announced that the V<ry Rev. Dr Walshe, Bishop of Kildare, has b ’en appointed Archbi •)io,i of Dnld n, .in, succession to I!i.■ ! ite Car Imal McCabe,

Germany annexes all the islands ’oft the coast of New Guim a betw en ih ■ E]uM..r and the eighth degree south, lat tude, -lelween the JTlst and the 154th degree of longitude. The German New Guinea Company has been given until next May to constitute itself. {

Gen ral Gordon's diaries have been been published,, and have caused ad immense sensation. In them he com* pares himself to Uriah the Uiltite, whom King David ordered to ,be placed in the foremost pqsilipn. ; ;ih i) bj»ttle, in con'.thbl army to desert hi» 'death..

Judo 25. Signor Depris, the Italian President of the Council and Minister of the Interior, will re-form the Italian Minis*' try. The new Oriental Bank has declared a dividend of 5 per cnt. The Karl;«if ( Kitnberley has been invested with 'lie Order of the Garter, and Viscount Sherbrook with th* Order of Knight Grand Cross of the Bath. Paris, Jane 23. / . Advicea are to hand’from: (he-com-mander of the-French force in Chinese ' waters to lhe I ffect tllat . the tracualion of the Island of. Formosa by French., troops is now completed. San Francisco, Juni.. 24. ' \ An envoy Irom. Kipg f£aiak«u«, of the Sandwich Islands, has arrived hae It is believed that the object of the visit is to negotiate the annexation of Haiwai byihe United States,

AUSTUALIAiN CABLE. Sydney, June tieary rain mtill couu’nues, the registered rainfall since. Sunday being nearly twelve inches. All the low-lying land in the vicinity of the city is submerged. Among the addresses delivered to tha Oontingentyesierday was one by Colonel Haultain, the official representative the New Zealand Government. -At.tha : reception he made a very good : speech, which was favorably received by the men. Adelaide, June 24. The Orient Company’s Liguria arrived here this afternoon, with the London mails of May 22nd, . , , Intelligence is to hand reporting* that : the barque Mars, of 487 tons, in ballast from Melbourne,(left June 4tb), was totally wrecked off the South Australian coast on the llth of Jape,,, Captain Pringle with the. pilot and two of the crew were drowned, Melbourne, June 24. The Union Company’s s.e. Tarawera, sailed this evening for the Bluff. The same Company’s s .r, Waihora arrived from the Bluff this morning. The examination of ths prisoners in custody for the Simpson’s road Bank robbery; was continued ,to-day. , ,The witness; Yates, who baa turned .Queen’s > evidence, gave his testimony ;i Ha stated that it was he who drove-the cart in which were contained the procseda of the robbery, and he furnished the Court with .fuff details,of the njannerin which' the crime was conceived and carried out-. At the close of his, i ep,tn : nathiri the pro qeedings ,were,adjpurned until Frida next. '•