TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1398, 29 September 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

London, Sept. 24. It is asserted that Press messages under the new rates wid not be deferred in transmission except when the wires are crowded with ordinary work. It is expected that the telegraph companies will dually concede to the public the rate of eight shillings end twopence per word, and Gorornmcnt rate six shillings and one penny. No other reductions are probable. Mrs Tliornoycroft states that she will make the replica of General Gordon’s statue for £2500. Sept. 25. England has proposed to the European Powers that matters in regard to Turkey and the revolutionary States shall be restored to status qou, and a conference on the subject has been virtually arranged. The Turkish Ministry has been remodelled, Kaimil Pasha being appointed Grand Vizier and President of the Council in place of Said Pasha. Sect. 26

The Earl of Shaftesbury is seriously ill, and in a critical condition.

H.M.S. Emerald will relieve H.M.S. Opal on the Australian station. Twenty-four thousand Christians have been omssacred in Annam. Mr Chamberlain states that he will not enter any Ministry which excludes lus proposals,

The corn trade complain of the outturn of x\untraliau and Californian wheat, and favor its delivery on a quantity basis.

The homeward New Zealand mails via San Francisce, ex City of Sydney, dated Auckland, August 18tb, were delivered here yesterday.

The preliminary examination of Mr Stead, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, and the other persons who are being prosecuted by the Treasury in connection with the recent articles, has been brought to u close. The accused were committed for trial, their defence being reserved,

The Right Hon. W. E. Forster is suffering from an attack of fever, which has prevented him from canvassing his constituents of Bradford.

The attitude of the inhabitants of Bulgaria in connection with the Rouraeltan revolt is distinctly anti-Russian. Kaimil Pasha, the President of the Council in the Turkish Ministry, is hopeful of a peaceful solution of the difficulty. The Turkish troops which are intended for service in Koumelia have been sent to Macedonia, a small district in that province. The Russians are largely petitioning the Czar not to dcseit Bulgaria. Greece has informed the Powers that if Bulgaria is allowed to enlarge their principality, they too will seize additional territory. His Holiness the Pope has agreed to mediate in the matter. St. Petersburg, Sept. 24. His Imperial Majesty the Czar has issued an order calling upon all officers in the Russian army holding appointments in Bulgaria to resign them forthwith. Constantinople, Sept. 24. The Bulgarian National Assembly, fitting at Sofia, has voted five million francs for the purpose of sustaining the action of Prince Alexander, and a state of seige lias been declared throughout Bulgarin. The troops despatched by (he Sultan to restore order have arrived at Philippolis, Sept. 25. So far as is known no very definite results have yet attended Sir Henry Drummond Wolff’s mission to the Porte, He leaves here next week for Egypt, Berlin, Sept. 25. It is announced that Germany and Spain have mutually agreed to accept the mediation of His Holiness the Pope in settlement of the difficulty which has arisen as to the occupation of the Caroline Islands. Paris, Sept, 27. The French Government have submitted a proposal to the European Powers that joint representation should be made to ivoumelia, Greece and Servia with a view to prevent the spread of the present revolutionary agitation in the European Turkish provinces.