TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1523, 24 June 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

London, June 20.

The blockade of the Greek ports having been raised, the combined European naval squadron, which was at Suda Bay, has now dispersed. The Duke of Edinburgh, Admiral commanding the Mediterranean fleet, has arrived at Malta in H.M.S, Alexandria.

The Agents-General and Executive Commissioners from the colonies have been invited to attend at South Kensington on Tuesday next to receive communications from the Prince of Wales. It is believed that His Royal Highness is to make a proposal that the Indian and Colonial Exhibition be continued next year. Tin- death is announced of the Hon. Augustus 0. Hobart (Hobart Pasha), aged 64. Special services in honor of the Queen’s jubilee were held in all the churches to-day. The testimonial to Herr fechnadhorst, the prominent Liberal organiser, has reached nearly to £IO,OOO. Over 100 colonists were present at. Sir Alexander Stuart’s funeral. The Queen and the Prince of Wales sent equerries and wreaths. The Colonial Institute and the Exhibition Commissioners were also represented. The funeral ceremony was conducted by Dean Fowler, of Sydney. The Berlin papers condemn the hoisting of the French flag at the New Hebrides as a breach of honor. They stigmatise it as an act of aggression, which is evidently part of a matured and far-reaching scheme. The Paris official journals justify the landing of French troops on the islands.

The St. James’ Gazette considers M. de Freycinet’s language as equivocal, It may mean that the French will discontinue hoisting their flag in the future, but not necessarily that they will haul it down now.

June 23.

The death is announced, at the age of 70, of Sir Charles Trevelyan, the well-known Indian statesman, and of the Maharajah Scindia of Gwalior (Central India).

The United States Congress have passed a Bill giving American mail boats a bounty of 50 cents per mile,

In the House of Commons to-day, in reply to a question, Mr Bryce, Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, announced that the Government did not intend to depart from the terms of the AngloFrench agreement respecting the New Hebrides.

June 22

The Times newspaper this morning states that the Prince of Wales finds himself unable to initiate the Permanent Colonial Museum in London, but Sir P. Cunliffe Owen has to-day invited the Colonial Agents-General and Executive Commissioners to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition to exchange views, and sound their Governments on the subject. The International Copyright Bill has been passed by the House of Lords.

Rio de Janeiro, June 21

The s.s. Tainui left here last-night for London. Her cargo of frozen meat is in good condition.