TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1400, 3 October 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Sept. 29. Lord Rosebery strongly supports the manifesto recently issued by Mr Gladstone. The Russian troops are massing in great force in Bessarabia, a province of Booth Russia, between the Pruih and the Dniester. The Turks are sending large reinforcements to Adrianople and Salonika. Servia is enrolling soldiers. Mr Gladstone will visit Midlothian in a fortnight. A long letter from the pen of Mr Willmott appears in the Times this morning, advocating and urging Queensland to go iu for separation. A thousand cases of smallpox tire reported at Montreal, where anti-vaccine riots have broken out.

Tho Marquis of Salisbury will speak at Newport on Wednesday next. Sept. 80.

Mr Henniker Heaton will conduct the affairs of the Queensland Separation League, which has for its object the division of Queensland into Northern and Southern districts.

Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, contradicts a statement made by the Daily Telegraph to the effect that the existing liability of the colony to PJnglish money-lenders will absorb the forthcoming loan. Alderman John Staples, F.S.A., Aldersgate, is the Lord Mayor-elect. The various Agonts-General will shortly confer with the cable Companies on the subject of the recent cable redactions.

The New South Wales loan will be placed on the market as soon as a decision has been arrived at regarding the

minimum. The Conference between the various Ambassadors to the Sublime Porte has been fixed for to-morrow (Oct. 3 st.) The Turkish War Office has mobilised eighty battalions of the reserve force and instructions have been given to recall as many as can be spared from the Island of Crete. Oct. 1. The quarterly revenue returns issued by the Treasury show a failing off of £300,000 as compared with the corresponding period of 1884. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach addressed a public meeting at Salisbury last night. In the course of his speech he stated that Her Majesty’s Government would endeavor to act in concert with the other Great Powers in order to bring about an equitable and peaceful settlement of the Roumelian difficulty. Constantinople, Sept. 30*

Prince Alexander of Bulgaria is about despatching a deputation to His Majesty the Sultan with the object of reassuring him of the continued loyalty of Bulgaria to the suzerainty of the Porte.

Intelligence is to hand from Albania that the inhabitants of the Maridita district (southward of the Ibalea Mountains) have risen in rebellion and seized a Turkish convoy. It is also reported that the Governments of Bulgaria and Servia are pushing their respective armaments with unabated vigour.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE

Melbourne, Sept. 30, Mr Service has introduced a Federal Adopting Bill into the Legislative Assembly, The Union Company’s s.s. Manapouri sailed for the Bluff this afternoon. Joseph Symes, the well-known Free, thought lecturer, was brought before a magistrate to-day on a charge of publishing articles of a blasphemous nature in his newspaper, The Liberator, and after examination was committed for trial. Oct. i. The Victorian quarterly returns give the revenue for the last three months as £1,450,000, being a decrease on the corresponding period of last year of £24,000. The principal falling off is in excise, land sales and territorial revenue. Sydney, Oct, 1. The smallpox patients at the quarantine station are reported by the health authorities to be improving. No further cases have been reported.

ADELAIDE, Ocl. 1

The revenue for the past quarter was £481,000, au increase of £21,000 compared with the same period ot last year,