TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1518, 12 June 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, June 7.

The Aorangi left Plymouth yesterday morning for Auckland and Wellington, calling at the Cape en route.

June 8.

At a Cabinet Council, held to-day to consider the position of the Government after the adverse vote in the House ot Commons on the Home Rule Bill, it is generally believed it was resolved to ask Her Majesty to grant a dissolution. Ninety-four Liberal members voted against the Government on Monday night. The French Cabinet have rejected the proposals for the expulsion of the Orleanist Princes. The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies are desirous of banishing all the members of the late regnant families. The New South Wales Government now only oppose the proposed new Press rate. Sir Saul Samuel has spoken to Sir Dillon Ball, and expressed a desire that the Naw Zealand Government would act in concert with the other colonies, as the Cable Companies were prepared to reduce the cost of public messages to 4s, provided the colonies would make them a guarantee on the average ef the last three years’ receipts. The New Zealand Government decline to purchase the cable, or to renew the subsidy, and the rates will probably be increased in July.

The result of the division on the Irish Land Purchase Bill has evoked great enthusiasm throughout Ulster.

The Court has ordered the winding up of the Commercial Bank of South Australia on the petition of Baron Ardelaum, who is a creditor to the extent of £IO,OOO,

The opinion of the Provincial Press is unfavorable to Mr Gladstone attempting an appeal to the country.

June 9. Beach has challenged any man in the world to scull for £SOO a side.

Matterson, who was recently defeated by Perkins, is anxious for another match with him.

The American Press regrets that Mr Gladstone’s proposals were rejected. The Continental Press is not surprised at the result. The Directors of the Orient Steam Navigation Company gave a large banquet on board the s.s. Austral at Gravesend yesterday. There was a large number of guests present, including fully 200 representative colonists. Mr Green, one of the Managing Directors of the Company, made a speech, in which he dwelt on the loyalty manifested by the colonies to the Mother Country. A serious collision occurred between the Protestants and Catholics in Belfast, and rioting was eontinued for soma time in spite of the efforts of the authorities to restore order.

Her Majesty the Queen has given her sanction for a dissolution of Parliament. The date of the elections has not yet been fixed. The City Livery Oompay of Skinners admit Sir Saul Samuel, the Salters Company Sir Arthur Blyth, and the Fishmongers Company Sir Charles Tapper, to their respective liveries. Mr Graham Berry and Mr Garrick have protested against the recent action of France in sending a vessel to the New Hebrides. Lord Rosebery, to whom the protest was made, will ask M. Waddington, the French Ambassador in London, to give an explanation of the matter. The Admiralty rely on the vigilance of H.M.S. Undine and Raven, which are at present in the neighborhood of the islands, to look after the English interests there. The Agents-General believe that the present action of France is simply the prelude to annexation.

The Empress Eugene and Princess Louise have visited the Australian section of the Exhibition.

Later,

The disturbance between the Catholic and Protestant parlies in Belfast has proved to be of a very serious nature. The police, who attempted to quell the disturbance, were attacked with stones, And were obliged to fire on the mob, killing five of their number and wounding many others,

Mr Chamberlain is forming a Radical Union, to promote the establishment of a National Union, and to form autonomy for England, Ireland, and Scotland,

Twenty-three Scotch Liberals voted against the Irish Land Purchase Bill. Messrs Ford, O’Donovan Rossa, and Sullivan are making menaces against England,

Paris, June 9,

The French Government, in reply to the inquiries of the English Foreign Office, have announced officially that the object of despatching the French man-of-war to the New Hebrides was to protect the French subjects, owing to the recent massacres by the natives. Troops will be landed at the points menaced with attack. Possibly a temporary station might be established, bat the movement had no political object..

San Fbanoisoo, June 7i

The Union Steamship Company’s R.M.S. Mariposa left on the sth June for Auckland.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, June 10. Arrived, this morning—Manapouri, from the Bluff.

Sydney, June 9. The Waihora arrived last night from New Zealand.

The Marine Board enquiry into the cause of, and the circumstances attending, the wreck of the Ly-ee-Moon commenced to-day. The evidence of Captain Webber was taken, and from his statement regarding the coarse he had directed the third officer to steer was elicited the fact that the slightest deviation from the set course would result in the wreck of the vessel. After’ Captain Webber had given his evidence and during the examination of Mr Potheringhara, the third officer, it was announced that the Judge had granted an injunction preventing the Board from proceeding any further with the taking of evidence, as the defendants were under a criminal charge of manslaughter. The enquiry was consequently adjourned until Monday next.

Adelaide, June 10,

The trial of Mr Lyall, the late manager of the Commercial Bank of South Australia at Yankalilla, who was alleged to have taken a large sum in notes from the Bank in March last, was concluded to-day, when, after hearing the evidence of the prisoner, he was acquitted.