TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1545, 26 August 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Aug, 22. Ihs Daydawn, Wyndham, and Charters Towers Mining Company, Queensland has been floated, with a cnoital of £460 000. Messrs Jardine, Matteson, A. McPraith, and Jas. Alexander hare been elected Directors. The Observer suggests that the Admiralty lend the Victorian Government a vessel for the purpose of an Antarctic expedition. * The report recently current that tlm White Star lino were prepared to establish a dajs service to Adelaide is not quite correct. It has now transpired that the Company made an offer to the Admiralty that they" were prepared to land i mops at Adelaide, if necessary, in the- time mentioned, either via the Cape or *o z. A 1 the Irish convention now sitting in Chicago, Messrs Dayitt and Redni'ini supported the wholesale refusal ■by Irish tenants to pay their rent, The con vcn t.inn resolved to boycot alt English goods. 1 The dynamite faction was muzzled amid noisy scenes, and Mr Parnell applauded for his moderation. ; Franco threatens to cease relations with the Vatican if a Nuncio is sent to China, , It is reported that Germany' has annexed the greater portion of Pata-g-nio. Aug. 23. The journalist who was recently Oiplured hy the Mexicans has been released. M. do Freyciuet, has forbidden the French Minister- of War, General Boulanger, to inspect the front ier during the German marouvres. A great trado congress is now sitting in Paris.

The match between Gaudaur and Beach, for £IOOO a side and the championship of the world, will lake place on the usual Thames course on Saturday, 18th September. A parly of Indian and colonial visitors proceeded to Sheffield, where they hare been the guests of the Mayor. The Controller of ! Patents has decided that Messrs Burgoyne have no exclusive rights to register the names of vineyards, , Aug. 24. W. G. George, of Birmingham, has beaten W. Cummings,’ of Paisley, in a mile race, lowering the record for that distance. The river Irrawaddy has inuhda'ed the country along its banks, and great destruction of property has been caused hy it in Mandalay, oyer 50,000 of the inhabitants being rendered homeless, and many losing their lives. The resistance against the payment of tithes is bn the increase in Wales.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne. Aug. 24. Sailed, this afternoon-—lp Anau, for the Bluff. Albay, Aug. 24. The R.M.S. Thames, with the English mails to 28rd July, arrived at King George’s Sound this morning. Sydney, Aug. 24, Mr Dtbbs has withdrawn his resigns tion of the Colonial Secretaryship, and will remain in the Cabinet. The Seamen’s Union have agreed to the proposed conference wUh the Shipowners’ Association with the view to a settlement of the question of reduction of seamen’s wages.