TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1370, 25 July 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, July 21. The first; portion of the cargo of frozen mutton ex the s.s. Elderslie, from Port Chalmers, was placed upon the Smithfield Market to-day, The meat was in good condition, and realised an average price of per lb. The final ties lor the Queen’s Prize was snot off at Wimbledon to-day, when the highest score was pciade by Volunteer Rulmer of the Lincolnshire Regiment. The Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Hon. F. Stanley, has informed the House of'Commons'that a gradual reduction of the Imperial forces would take place in South Africa, so far as was consistent with the security of Bechuanaland. ; The Egyptian loan will be issued next week. Sir H. Drummond Wolffs will leave on his special mission to Egypt some time next week. The Gordon Memorial Fund amounts to twenty-one thousand pounds. It has been decided that the memorial will take the shape of a Home for friendless boys, in memoriam of Gordon’s great work of rescuing children from the gutter. At an interview between the AgentsGeneral and the Right Hon, Colonel Stanley, the latter intimated tint the Government intended to retain clause 31st in the Federation Bill, omitting the abrogating proviso. It is expected that the Eail of Carnarvon will take an early opportunity of considering the memorials relative to the release ot several Irish prisoners. The Times commenting on the matter, condemns the action of Lord Salisbury in truckling to Parnell. July 22, News is to band of a maritime disaster on the coast of Cornwall, causing a considerable loss of life. The 6.8. Cheerful came into collision with the s.s. C. Bianden, with the result that the former vessel sank immediately, thirteen persons perishing by drowning. The King of Abyssinia will probably send troops to relieve the beleagured garrison at Kassala, Colonel Ridgeway, who succeeded Sir Peter Lumsden in the Afghan Frontier Delimitation Commission, has been invested with the Order of the Knight ot the Star of India. A London firm , advances half a million pounds to the Munster Bank. An Irish offer of a quarter of a million was not accepted. Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, has taken the initiative towards establishing an Australian Parcels Post, and a Conference has been arranged to . take place next week between the Agenta-General and Lord John Manners, the British Postmaster-General, when the subject will be fuilv considered.

Lord Rosebery has decided to retire from the turf, and is selling* his whole stud. The , Prince of Wales will nominate some of his horses for the Derby and the Oaks, 3 887. . ; , Sir Charles Gavan Duffy has ,Tm £ten to the Earl of Garnampn, Loro* Lieutenant of Ireland, approving of hie Irish policy. ; At the English Wesleyan Conference at present sitting here, the Kev. Richard Roberts v^as ; appointed President for the ensuing year. The lifeboat belonging to, H.M.S. Castor, stationed at North Rhields, has;, been wrecked, and eight ol the crew drowned. July 23. „ Mr H. M. Stanley, the : explorer, Speaking ,lbfprej Society; advocated Generaj Gordon’s plan for reaching the Upper Nile via the Congo, Dr Ferran, of Valencia, who was recently prohibited by the Spanish; Go-; yerument from continuing inoculation with cholera virus as a preventative against cholera until the Board . of Health hail expressed its opinion on the subject, bas now resumed it in the 1 Province of Aragon. Cairo, July 21. The Egyptian Government are in receipt of intelligence stating that the garrison at Kassala was attacked by the I rebel Arabs about tbe middle of June. |

A severe engagement took place, lasting two days, at the expiration of which time the assailants were repulsed with & loss of fully 30t0 killed. July 22. A messenger arrived at, Assouan today from Gal Ra, bringing newg that the Mahdi died of smallpox on 29th June last. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, July 2S. The Union Steamship ~Company’ll Rotomahana sailed for Auckland thin afternoon. The death is announced of the Hon. Sir Geo. Wigram Allen, Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, aged 61 years. The further enquiry into., the circumstances attending . the wreck of the A.S.N. Company’s g.e. Gabors, was concluded to r day. The Board find the captain and mate amenable, and haye ordered the certificate of the captain to be suspended for six months, and that of the mate for three months, i Adelaide, July 28. Arrived, this afternoon—The Orient Company’s R.M.S. Potosi, with the English mails (dated London, June 29th). Hobabt, July 22. The Tasmanian Parliament w*« opened yesterday by the Governor, Sir George Stracban. The Speech dwelt principally upon the preparations that have been made by the Government to place the colony in an efficient state of defence, and announced it was proposed to raise a loan for the purpose of carry iug out various public works. Mrlboubnk, July 22. Arrived, this morning R.M.S. Parramatta. The Hon. W., Service, Colonial Treasurer, brought down his Financial Statement to-night, wl ich showed that the revenue for the past year waa £6,290,000, excluding a balance of £614,000 with which' the year commenced, and the expenditure for the same period £6,210,000. The balm.ee at the end of the year waa £692,000, and the actual surplus of receipts over expenditure £7B 000. The Hon. the Treasuier estimate* the revenue tor the forthcoming twelve months at £ 7 000,000, and the expenditure for the same time at £6,950,000, the estimated balance at the close of the financial year 1885-1886 beipg. £51,000. The public debt is set down at £28,600,000. In the course ,of bis ispeech, Mr Servico referred to the great success which had attended the action of the Government in reducing the.telegraphic charges from Is to 3d per ten words, and announced that no fiscal charges have been made. July 28.

The Board which w«a appointed to investigate . certain recent transactions under tbe Lands Act, have sent in tln-ir report, censuring the;Hon. Mr Richardson ,for signing an application for land lodged hr Mr Carnegie., Tbe Hen. Mr Richard l3oll has tendered his resignation as a. member of the Executive Council of Victoria, w .... Arrived, this morning—S,S. Wairarapa from the Bluff; ‘