TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1502, 6 May 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOR KID N. London, Mat 1. Tlx* New Zenland Midland Railway sclmiD' lias bci'ii successfully launcln'd. 'i he ,u< J n^rnl result of the meeting of ihe Liberal party is that it has Item 'leciils-.l to nppov that portion of Mr Gladstone’s Irish proposals which provides for the exclusion of the Irish members from the Llouse of Commons. May 2. At the onnn il banquet of the Royal Acinh my, the Prince of Wales, in his addp’s.-, praised the fine portrait of Lord C trringtoo by Mr Frank Hall, R.A. He also dwelt with emphasis on the ! V 'eiidul character of the paintings at 'h' Indian anil Colonial Exhibition. S * Charles (.invan Duffy, writing to the Contemporary Revie.w,"argues that coin-i.| analogies justify Mr Gladstone in hi- efforts to grant Home Rule to Itvi.-n i. Lotd iCodington and Mr Goscben have hehi successful political meetings in Edinburgh and several oilin’ Scottish t owns. Mr John Mor'ey bus thrown out hints that important modifications will be mile in Mr Gladstone’s Irish prepos a Is. 1 Mi ukbiar Pasha declines to modify his proposals regarding the Egyptian army. May 3. The hospitable reception extended to Admiral Knorr on his visit to the colonies has been favorably commented on in Germany. Lord Rosebery bolds that Mr Gladstone’s Irish proposals absolutely promote Imperial federation, but Lord Selbourne contends that their effect will be to repeal the Union, The University of Glasgow has conferred the degree of Divinity on the Rev. David Patou, of Adelaide. A league has been established in Calcutta to agitato for autonomy for India, similar to that allowed to Australia. The Prince of Wales has accepted the present of soma gigantic Queensland shells. Tha Australian Eleven are in excellent form. The European Powers are dissatisfied with the reply given by Greece in their united memoruidutn, ami require a more precise promise as to date and completion of disarmament. The amount of New Zealand stock brought under conversion provisions exceeds £4,000,000. The death is announced, in his seventy-first year, of the Right Hon, the Earl of Reclesdale. A meeting of Ihe Royal Commission of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition was held to-day, the Prince of Wales, Chairman of the Commission, presiding. The guarantee for the Exhibition has already reached £280,000. A Committee has been formed, under the Chairmanship of the Dolce of Aborcorn, for the purpose of extending a hospitable reception of visitors from the colonies, and a fund is being subscribed to that end. Mr Gladstone has issued a manifesto to the constituents of Midlothian, which informs them that he has received conclusive evidences of sympathy for his Irish policy from America and the colonies. He criticises the discordant views held by those politicians who seceded from the Liberal ranks, and urges concessions to Irish demands while England is yet free and strong instead of yielding hereafter from motives of terror. Mr Gladstone concludes by affirming that it is urgently necessary that the House of Commons should decide whether Ireland shall have the management of her own affairs, and expresses an opinion that it is possible to arrange details. It is announced that a convention has been signed, on the part of Great Britain by Sir E, B. Malet, English Ambassador at the Berlin Court, and on behalf of Germany by Prince Bismarck, setting forth the delimitation of the present and future spheres of occupation in the West°rn Pacific. The dividing line starts at Mitre Rock, a until! island f irming of the Queen Charlotte Group, situated in latitude 11.56 South, longitude 170.25 East.

From this point it emeses tin* S'llomnn Group, Isaving the Islands of Bangninville, Chrism!, and Isabel, In Germany. From the K.ilomon Islands tin* line turns hack in a north-easterly, directum to the Marshall Islands, which alnndy belong to Germany. The convention foibids the deportation of <ri minals In the' Pacific hy either of the signatory Powers, and the continu'd neutrality of Tonga and Samoa is stipulated for. Obituary—Sir L. S. L"ake, Speaker of the Legislative Council of Western Australia, has died from congestion of the liver. Mr Julian Thomas, the “Vagabond,” has arrived here on a visit to the Exhibition, A delay which has occurred over the Indian mail contract is likely to complicate the settlement of the federal mail service. Dr Moorehouse will he enthroned on the 18<h inst. One hundred and fifty cases of Victorian fruit have been sold. The prims realised were—apples 4d p p r lb, and pears-3d each. Later. Mr Gladstone’s manifesto to tie Midlothian electors was the result of Lord Hartington’s and Mr Goselien’s Scottish crusade. 'J he manifesto virtually abandons Ili e land purchase scheme, whilst it concedes the principle of Horae Rule. The opinbn in Scotland and Wales seems favorable to the retention of Irish representatives at Westminster. The amendments hinted at by Mr Morley will probably satisfy the Radica’s. It. is staled that if tl.-e second reading of the Land Purchase Bill is carried only by a narrow majority a dissolution will take place. May 4. Sir Cbfirles Dilke has addressed a crowded meeting at Chelsea, at which he stated that he was prepared to deny on oath all the allegations made against him in the recent divorce case, and to defray the cost of the Queen’s Proctor’s intervention. The Times states that Mr Gladstone’s manifesto is too democratic to appeal to class prejudices, and that none of the great colonial capitals will bo found to support bis Irish proposals. It has been decided that all the colonies possessing legislatures will be excluded from the scope of tbs Pacific Convention. M. Dcliyaimis is still obdurate, and it is expected that the diplomatic representatives of the several Powers will embark tn-day. The Turkish lorces arc mutinously demanding that an advance on the Greeks should be made. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, May 4. His Honor Justice Molesworth has resigned his office as Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. Sailed—The Rotcmahaun for the Cuff. Sydney, May 4. The Hon. W. B. Dailey is seriously ill. It is probable that the Chimborazo’s passengers will be released from quarantine on Friday, as no symptoms of smallpox have been manifested, Sailed, last night—Wakalipu, for Wellington. Adelaide, May 3. The South Australian section of the trunk railway between Melbourne and Adelaide has been opened, Hobart, May 4, The Tninui arrived this morning, all well.