TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1463, 4 February 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Jan. 31. Advices are to hand stating that the ship Claribel, which left Auckland for New York on September 19ih, put info Bermuda in a leaky condition. The vessel encountered heavy weather, and was partially dismasted. She also lost a quantity of her spars, sails, and rigging. A portion of her cargo is being discharged prior to refitting. The ringleaders in the Nihilist plot at Warsaw against the life of the Czar, which was discovered in July 1884, have been executed. Upwards of 100 persons, including Russians, Servians, and Bulgarians, were arrested at the time for complicity in it, Mouktar Pashar, the Turkish Commissioner to Egypt, suggests the formation of an Egyptian army of 16,000 men. Feb. 1. Mr Gladstone has not so far been successful in forming a Cabinet, as the Marquis of Hartington has withdrawn from the projected Ministry, and both Lord Derby and Lord Carlingford have declined portfolios offered them. The Prussian Diet has approved of the expulsion of the Poles from Prussia,; which has been going on for some months past under instructions from Prince Bismarck, The Marquis of Hartington disagrees with the Irish policy proposed by Mr Gladstone, Lord Rosebery will probably fake the portfolio of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the new Cabinet, The House of Commons stands farther adjourned until Thursday next. Arrived—P. and O. Company’s s.s, Kaiser-i-Hind, from Melbourne (Dec. 17th).

Tenders for conveyance of mails to Australia will be received up to the 30th April. Feb. 2. Earl Granville has been summoned to Osborne by Her Majesty the Queen. The Daily News this morning announces the following is the personnel of the new Ministry :—Mr Gladstone, Premier and Chancellor of the Exchequer; Sir Wm. Yernon Harcourt, Home Secretary ; Sir John Ferrer Herschell, Lord High Chancellor ; Viscount Hampden, Lord Privy Seal ; Mr Childers, Secretary of War; Mr Wm. Chamberlain, First Lord of the Admiralty ; Mr Mundella, President of the Board of Trade; and Mr John Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, It is added that probably Earl Spencer will be appointed Viceroy of India and Lord Kimberley will go to the Foreign Office. Lord Rosebery will take the Colonial Secretaryship and Lord Granville will be made Lord President of the Council. The Standard' states that prodigious applications have been made for the Victorian loan, for which lenders will close to-day, two brokers alone having applied for the whole of it. The Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Society, est£hlished at Glasgow in 1826, are making business advances to Australia, and Messrs Gibbs, Bright and Co., of 98 Pitt street, Sydney, have been appointed agents for the Company. The Times praises Mr R. C. Baker’s federal postal scheme, and considers it will prove to accomplish a great deal without encroaching on local freedom. Mr J. F. Garrick, Agent-General for Queensland, has answered the statements made by the Duke of Manchester regarding the labor traffic in that colony. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, Feb. 1. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of the three daughters who were concerned in the recent murderous outrage at Coburg, but they are still 100 ill to appear to answer the charge. Arrived, on the morning of 81st January—R.M.S. Coromandel. Fob. 2. The following is the final selection tor the Australian cricketing team to proceed to England : Blackham, Bruce, Mcllraiih, Palmer, Scott, Trumble, bpofforth, Jones, Evans, Bonnor, Garrett, Jarvis, and G. Giffen. Bailed, this afternoon—Te Anau, 8.8., for the Bluff.

Sydney, Feb, 1, A vessel which has just anived from the South Sea Islands brings information of the murder of two white men by the natives of New Ireland. Sailed, on Saturday evening— WakaJ tipu, s.s,, for Wellington. Arrived, on Sunday morning —- Hauroto, s.s., from Wellington. Feb. 2. Arrived, yesterday afternoon—TaraWera, from New Zealand. Perth (W.A.), Feb. 2. The German barque Mira Flore, of 000 tons, from London to Freemantle, struck on a reef to the northward of Rotteneste Island, and became a total wreck.