TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1493, 15 April 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 12. Mr Murray-Smith has started for Australia. Thevarioas Agents-Ginoral and many friends were present to see him away. Hanlan has challenged Beach to row a match on the Thames for £SOO a side. Wallace Rcss has accepted Matterson’s challenge to scull a match. G. Perkins is also willing to row Matterson, but demands a start. A Cossack plot to dynamite the Czar has been discovered.

The Australian mails ex Orient Company’s John Elder, which left Melbourne o« March stb, were delivered today, via Naples. The Shipping Company’s Kaikoura sailed for Port Chalmers and Wellington on Saturday night. She calls at the Cape en route. Prance, England and Germany are prepared to settle the difficulties regarding the occupation of (he Pacific Islands, but the negotiations are blocked by the opposition offeied by the Federal Council and Hir Alexander Stuart. The Tariff Committee of the United States Congress recommend that wool should be allowed to be imported into the Slates free of duty. General Ignatieff is of opinion that war between Russia and Austria is not improbable. It is repotted that Signor Depres, President of the Italian Council, has resigned, Matterson refuses to make any concessions in the scuhing matches.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, April 12. Arrived—Kaiser -i- Hind. April 13. A telegram has been received by the Government from Sir Andrew Clarke, acting Agent-General, to the effect that an Emigrant Bureau has been established in connection with the Colonial Offiee, for the purpose ct supplying reliable information to persons desirous of emigrating to any of the British colonies. Sydney, April 12. The German man-of-war Albatross has returned here from the Islands. During her cruise she inflicted severe punishment on the natives of the New Ireland and New Britain groups for their murders of Europeans. Their villages were shelled, and forty natives killed and a large number wounded. Bcott and Edwards commenced their six days’ walking match this morning.

Holt, late manager of the Bank of New Zealand, was brought up before the Magistrates to-day, and committed for trial on one charge, bail being accepted. Lalrr. At ten o’clock to-night Edwards bad completed 89 miles and Scott 93. April 13. Arrived—Wairarapa, s.s,, from New Zealand.

The new import duties imposed by Government are being unfavorably received, and arc condemned by the mercantile community generally. At ten o’clock to-night Scott bad accomplished 185 miles to Edwards’ 182.

In the Legislative Assembly, tbe debates on Sir Henry Parkes’ motion with regard to the New Hebrides question is proceeding at present, but it is impossible to say in which direction the division will tend.

Adelaide, April 13,

It is understood that tbe reconstruction of the South Australian Ministry has been averted.