TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1541, 5 August 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Aug. 1. The deaths in Labrador are much fewer but horrible cannibalism is prevailing. Yielding to high official pressure, Mr Bosisto accepts the Companionship of St. Michael and St, George, The Exhibition will be closed on November 9th. Australian wines are selling freely at the Exhibition. Mr Bosisto will inspect the vineyards of France and Upain in September. Aug, 2. The colonial recipients of honor in connection with the Colonial and Indian Exhibition were formally invested with their orders at Osborne to-day by (he Queen. The proceedings were on a grand and imposing scale. Aug. 3. An agitation threatening separation is on foot in Catalonia, a province in North-east Spain, as a protest against the Anglo-Spanish Treaty, and which threatens to culminate seriously. Eighty-one thousand persons visited the Exhibition yesterday. The Canadian officials disbelieve the Statements received from Labrador respecting the straits of the inhabitants, and refuse to sand assistance. AUSTRALIAN CABLE.Sydney. Aug, 2. Arrived, last evening—Union steamships Tarawera, from Auckland, and Tekapo, from Wellington. The strike of coal miners at Mount Kemola continues, all efforts at an understanding between masters and men having failed. The cargo of the barque Chasca will be discharged at this port, in order that a proper survey may be made with lite view of ascertaining whether the vessel can be repaired and proceed to Wellington, or whether she shall be condemned. Melbourne, Ang. 3. The seamen have announced their determination to resist the demand of the shipowners for a reduction of wages, and threaten to strike if the same is persisted in. Rtports from Port Derby announce the arrival there ol the steamship Triumph, from Wellington. The police at Derby report that the miners at Kimberley are getting gold, but water is short. Pailed, this afternoon—Manapouri, for the Bluff.