TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1416, 10 November 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Not. 5. Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-Agent for New South Wales, has received from the War Office the Egyptian medals and clasps intended for the members of the New South Wales Contingent. Nov. 6. The rumors of the auti-German agitation at Manilla have been officially denied. Mr Stand, Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, contends that the passing of an Act by the Parliament of the South Australian Government for the protection of females is the result of the Lily Armstrong story. The Standard to-day publishes a telegram from its special Egyptian correspondent stating that 6000 rebel Arabs are advancing on Wady Haifa. Sir Philip Cuncliffe Owen was entertained at a banquet last night. In the course of his speech he warmly acknowledged the valuable assistance rendered him by the Agents-General of the various colonies, which he stated had been the means of securing the success of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition next year, and concluded by promising/ a welcome to all colonists able to visit the Exhibition. Nov. 7. The frozen mutton ex the Doric is selling at 4£d per lb. The trial of Mr Stead and others in the Lily Armstrong case was concluded to-day, when Mr Stead and Mrs Jarrett were found guilty of abduction, Messrs Booth and Jacques being acquitted, Sentence on the prisoners was deferred, pending the result of the trial for indecent assault in couuection with the same case. Count Von Haizfeldt, who replaces Count Von Munnter as Ambassador for the German Empire at the Court of St. James, arrived to-day from Berlin. The R.M.S, Kaikoura, from Welling, ton (left Sept. 27th), arrived at Plymouth this morning, with her cargo of frozen meat in good condition. Capetown, Nov. 7. The b.B. Coptic, having effected the necessary repairs to her propeller, left yesterday morning for New Zealand, ♦ AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, Nov, 6. Clarence Whistler, the American athlete, died to-day. Nov. 7. The Superintendent of the Peninsular and Orient Company has received a telegram from the London office stating that the service via Alexandria, which was interrupted on account of the stringency of quarantine regulations, has been resumed, Nov. 8. A Berious fire broke out yesterday in the premises of Messrs D. Munro and Co., contractors, Queen street, which resulted, before the flames could be extinguished, in damage to the extent of several thousand pounds. Sydney, Nov. 6. Intense hot weather continues, and is affecting the crops. Bad accounts are generally received from the country districts. Nov. 7. Mr Slattery, Minister of Justice, and Mr Lyne, Secretary of Public Works, have been re-elected for their respective constituencies unopposed. Cooktown, Nov. 7. The f.B. Guna arrived to-day from Thursday Island. The captain states that when he left two Papuan natives had arrired from New Guinea with a report that all the members of the exploring expedition sent out by the Geographical Society of New South Wales had been attacked and murdered by the natives of the Fiy River district, New Guinea.