TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1359, 30 June 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, June 25. Sir Nathaniel Rotchschild, Sir R. R. W. Liagen, K.G.8., Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, Mr Edward Baring, and Mr Samuel Morley, M.P. for Bristol, hare been raised to the Peerage. The House of Commons met to-day, and. after the issue of new writs, rendered necessary by the appointment of the Ministry, adjourned until July 6th, when the result of the re-election will be known. Mr Ashmoad-Bartletl has been appointed one of the Junior Lords of the Admiralty. The position of AttorneyGeneral and Solicitor-General has not as yet been definitely filled. In the House of Lords, the Earl 'of Salisbury stated that he had at first refused to reconsider hia proposed resigna-, tion, but that Her Majesty the Queen, had appealed to him to accept Mr Gladstone’s assurance of support. The New Zealand Agricultural Company are asking for an extension of the lime for paying off their debentures. The annual meeting of the Company will take place on the 30d). Th« Agents-General will ask the Hon. Mr Stanley to endorse Lord Derby’s approval of the prohibitive steps proposed to he taken should the French , Government insist on their recidiviste scheme. It is understood that Lord Baring, Bon of the Earl of Northbrook, has been appointed Aid-dc-Cnmp to Lord Carrington, the new Governor of New South Wales. June 26. Lord Harris has been appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary for India in the new Ministry, and Earl Dunraven Under-Secretary for the Colonies. Mr Rowland Winn, M.P. fur North Lincolnshire, the Right Hon. Sir Arthur Hobhouse, and Messrs J. E. Millais and G. F. Walts, ilia eminent painters, have had baronetcies conferred upon them. It is announced that Sir Hy. D. Drummond Wolfe will not supersede Sir Evelyn Baring, but that his mission to Egypt shall be of a special character. Three thousand visitors wore present at Lord and Lady Carrington’s soiree at the Colonial Institute. The Right Hon. Sir Arthur Hobhouse, K.C.S.T., Queen’s Counsel, and the Right Hon, Robf. Porrett Collier, K. 8., have been raised to .the Peerage, and the Marquis of Northampton and the Earl of Sefton have been invested with the Order of the Garter. New Zealand frozen mutton, s|d to s|d. , June 27. Despatches relative to the fortification of Albany suggest the; co-operation of. England and the colonies with regard to naval defence. Mr S, H. Ewesley has been selected as the Liberal candidate foriFinsbury. The draft regulation concerning recidivistes is now being drawn up. The German expedition to New Guinea departs on Monday. June 28.. Mr Samuel Morley has, declined the Peerage which was offered him. Mr Erringlon, who. Ims tor some lime acted as an official representative of Great Britain at the Vatican, Las . had a baronetcy conferred upon-him; 11 Germany and Austria are encouraging England to adopt a firmer, policy in the administration of Egyptian affairs, Earl Spencer has lutt for Ireland, Madrid, June 27. Reports from various parts of the country show that, the cholera epidemic is increasing in viral-nee, no less than 1,100 cases which had ended fatally having been reported to the authorities yesterday. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney. June 26. gulled—Union Co.’s Rntnmahana for Wellington this evening. The trial of the libel case McCrombie v. the proprietors of the Evening News was concluded to-day, and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff for £2OO damages, June 28. | ( The wreck of the A.S.S.-N, Com- j

piny's s.s. Oahors, which was pat up to auction, realised £SOO. The whole cargo fetched £5200. Melbourne, June 26. Reports received from Gippsland state that a promising goldfield has been discovered on Snowy River, and a rush commenced in consequence of the glowing accounts received from the prospectors. June 28. Ihe Orient Steam Navigation Company’s s.s. Liguria, arrived here yesterday morning,