TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1544, 12 August 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN., Londqn, Aug. 8.

A sculling match has been arranged between Wallace Ross and Beach for the championship and £IOOO. Gandanr has left New York for this country to enter into training for his match with Beach, which takes place on the • 18th prox.

The rioting in Belfast last night resulted in a serious pitched battle between the police and the mob. The firing of the former was metre disastrous ( th|aa was supposed, i It is stated that fully fifty persons have been wounded, many fatally. It is reported that Bishop : Kenyon, of Adelaide, has been offered ; the Vicarage of Blackburn, assisting Bishop Moorehouse.

Mr Stanhope has informed M. Wadding) < a that the colonies are concerned at ilia., permanent .character of the buTicks erected by the French . troops in the New Hebrides.

Mr George Coppin has arranged, to take Miss Minnie. Palmer, the wellknown actreißj. on a tour through Australia.

Leo, pf New York, has been permitted to compete in the international sculling contest, which takes, place this months,

A number cf colonists have inspected the plans of the Channel tunnel, and Sir Saul Samuel spoko in eulogistic terms of tha,work, ,

. .A; deputation-.from .the( Federation League has been appointed to task Lord Salisbury to convene a conference or appoint a Royal Commission to report on the possibility of concerted action being taken in regard to defence, and to promote a closer union of the Empire, Forty members of Parliament will accompany the deputation. Aug. 9.

The Times referring to the proposal to establish a penny, postal service with Australia, considers that the idea is perfectly feasible, provided that the rate of speed demanded of the mail steamers ia made slower. The postal authorities are, however, adverse .to the scheme.

The Blenheim art collection has realised three hundred and fifty thousand pounds, . Rioting continues at Belfast, and is being suppressed with difficulty. . Three persons , were killed in the affray. A considerable reinforcement’ of constabulary has arrived in town to preyent further dißtarbaßCos.j, ; . , .

Earl Rosebery has, forwarded a .note to the Russian Government, in which he states* (bat the Russian action regarding the Port of Batoum is contrary to the provisions of the Berlin Treaty,. and will not, therefore,, be .recognised {by England,^ Further serious disturbances occurred this morning at, Belfast, when the police were again ordered to fire on.the mob, one person being killed and several others wounded. The number killed during yesterday’s riots is shown to Lave been 11—not three, as telegraphed previously. Arrived—Kaikqura, s.s., from Wellington (July Ist). Her cargo of meat* is in good condition. Messrs Lionel Brough and Beucicault, jnnr,, sail by the steamer Orient with a full opera bouffe company for a tour in the colonies.

Bishop Mooiiiouse denies that Bishop Kenyon has been offered (he Vicarage of Blackburn. Mr Gladstone, who was returned for two seats at the late elections has sleeted to represent Midlothian. Mr James Service, will be one of the deputation which is to wait on Lord Salisbury .on the fedeiatiqn question, Aug. 10. Rioting has been continued m Belfast, the conflicts between the mob and the police.being of a fierce character, < A further reinforcement of,one thousand troops has arrived in lown, and martial law has been proclaimed in Belfast and district.

; The rowing.match between Beach, of Sydney, and Wallace Ross, of America, for the, championship of the world and £IOOO takes place on Saturday, September 25tb >;

Constantinople, Aug. 9. Two Turkish qrmy corps, have been despatched to Macedonia.

1 Vienna, Aug. 9.

Count Kalnoky, the Austrian Premier, has joined the Emperors Francis: Joseph and William and Prince Bismarck at Gaatein.

The Loiener Zeitung to-day, in an article upon the meeting of the Emperors of Austria and Germany at AJestqin, states that, the conference will fortify the friendship of the two sovereigns, and strengthen the friendly relations of the German and Austro-Hungar|an people. .

Alexandria*. Aug. n 9|

• His Highness .the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince George of Wales ate rjow here on a visit to Egypt. ■ Capetown, Aug. 8. The steamship Coptic sailed; (for Auckland on the morning of the 6th inst. '

AUSTRALIAN GABLE. ;

Sydney, Aug, 10 f The German warship Albatross, just returned from a cruise of (He . I’aqific Islands, reports that she shelled jtlie villages on several islands < where Germans bad been murdered, and.killed and wounded 40 na,tires. . . Government have now under, qcia : liderqtion a plan,,for the celebration of the centennial of. New South Walcs-j ; Albany, Aug. 8.

The P. and 0, Company’* s.s, Suthj, with the London mails daier), July. 9th, arrived at King 'George’s VSound this morning.