TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1381, 20 August 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Aug. 14. llio New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S, Aorangi, from Lyttelton (left Bth July), arrived at Plymouth this morning, with her meat cargo in good condition. Aug. 15. New Zealand 10-40 loan is 10s higher, and is now £lO5 5s ; do, 4£ percent., 10s /uglier, £JO2 10s ; do inscribed stock, 10s lower, £9B. A report has lately been current that Germany has annexed some of the Caroline Islands, over which S,.ain possessed a protectorate as pari of the Phillipine Islands, with a view of obtaining Papuan laborers for the newlyestablished Germau settlement in New Guinea. The rumor lacks official confirmation, Mnd is discredited in wellinformed quarters. Prime New Zealand frozen mutton is realising an average price of per lb. lMie Right Rev. Dr Hill, Bishop of Brisbane, has declined the appointment of Rector of Oyleworth, a parish of Gloucestershire. M»jor W. W. Spalding, of the New South Wales Permanent Artillery, has been created a Companion ol the Order ot St. Michael and St. George. /.%, 17. Tho Tariff Committee of the Inter national Telegraph Conference have rejected a scheme propounded by Germany for reducing the cost of telegrams in Europe. The difficulty regarding the Australian mails via San Francisco has now been satisfactorily settled, and the Pacific Mail Company have resumed carryiug them. The meeting between the Czar and the Emperor of Austria will take place at the Kremlin on the 21st instant. The payment of the Egyptian indemnity has now been commenced. English harvest operations a e progressing rapidly, and the crop is expected to be an average one, Aug. 18. It is officially announced that Sir Arthur E. Havelock has been appointed Governor of Natal instead of Sir Henry Bulwer, and Sir William Robinson sue ceeds him as Governor of Trinidad. Professor J. Wadswor'h, M.A., ol Oriel College, Oxford, has been appointed Bishop of Salisbury. The Daily Telegraph urges the establishment of more coaling stations in the Pacific. The International Telegraph Conference has virtually arranged the following scales of chargCß to Australia : —Government messages six shillings mi'l one penny, and public messages eight shillings and twopence per word. Press messages will be sent at a quarter of the public rates, provided a guarantee is given of a proportionate increase in that class of telegrams. Berlin, Aug. 16.

The German Press, in referring to the imported action of Germany in annexing the Caroline Islands, repudiates entirely n* obsolete the Spanish claims to a protectorate oyer that territory. Cairo, Aug. 16. It. is currently reported that Khalifa Abdoolali, who assumed succession to the Mahdi, has been killed in a riot amongst the Arabs at Khartoum. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Aug. 17. A grand review of the Colonial Forces was held on Saturday, when over four thousand troops were under arms. It is announced that Colonel Richardson has been promoted to the rank of Major-General for his services in the SoudaD. In consequence of the large number of liberated "convicts who have been arriving in tins colony lately from New Caledonia, the Premier, Sir Alexander Stuart, has addressed a remonstrance to the Imperial Government on the subject. Aug. 18. The steamers Massilia and Lusitania, which have been doing duty for some lime as armec' cruisers, left yesterday for Kin'lund, in accordance with Admiral 1/iynn's instructions, to report themselves to the Admiralty.

Major-General Sir Peter Scratchley, High Commissioner of New Guinea, left Sydney yesterday for that territory, in order to assume his duties. Melbourne, Aug, 17. The work of drafting the Bill accepting the provisions of the Federation Enabling Act is in a forward state, and the measure will shortly be placed before Parliament. Arrived, this morning—Peninsula and Orient Company's K.M.S. Valetta. Mr O'Brien's horse Tasman has been scratched for the Melbourne Cup. Adelaide, Aug. 18. Tho Hon. the Colonial Treasurer, Mr Newiand, brought down his Financial Statement to-night. He proposes to increase the duties on ale and beer by 8d per gallon, and perfumed spirits 8s per gallon, while.tobacco and cigars will be raised by 6d and Is respectively. It is proposed (o levy an import duty of 5s on horses, 2s 6d on cattle, 3d on sheep, and 2s on pigs. All the present 5 per cent, ad valorem duties are to be abolished.