TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1563, 30 September 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Sept. 25. lu the Queen’s prorogation speech it was announced that a Commission would be appointed to i nquire into the working of the Irish Can I Act. Sept. 26. The weather was fine for the rate between Wallace Ross and Beach, but the tide was poor. There was a fair attendance. Beach when passing barm «■ was leading by ten lengths. Hemeudy paddled the rest of the course, and wen by four lengths. Time—-23min ssecs ; Ross, 12sees later.

Three thousand pounds’ worth .of colonial wines was sold in glassis c.t Spiers and Pond’s Exhibition har, end £2OOO wort!) n( tlie Ci'innii'-sionesr’ Em-. At a meeting in the G mmcre.ial Ex change it was reso'ved (hat it wouhi b> an Imperial misfortune if the Exhibition were closed.

China refuses to r cognise the French protector?to over Catholics, and the Government will act regardless of the Vatican and France,

The weekly Press warmly approves of the Imperial Institute scheme, and urges that colonial interests will riqui.e good management.

Sir Saul Bemad will inform the associates of the British Association that the New South Wales centennial programme is in abeyance.

The Radical Press declare that the renewal of outrages in Ireland will ruin the alliance between the Glaiisionil.es and Purnellitos.

The French are exacting additional territory in the vicinity of the harbor of Diego Snurex, on the eastern coast of Madagascar, ami threaten that unless their claims are acceded to they will withdraw their Resident, and that the blockade of TamaUve will bo renewed.

Au encounter has taken place between a party moonlighters and the Kerry police. The latter captured six and wounded two. Sept. 27. Mr Norton asserts that New Bomb Wales is behind Victoria owing to her freetrade policy. The Times states that both Mr Norton and Mr Cotton have no influence in colonial politics, and questions whether the unemployed in Victoria hare any desire for honest work. Mr Hennick«r Heaton, in a letter to Mr Cecil Kaikes, Posimaster-Gener d, adduced fresh arguments in favor of a penny postal system throughout the Empire, and offers to construct cables via Canada, India, ami the Capo for a yearly subsidy of £36,000. Efforts are b eiug made to arrange.a match between Beach and Gandaur for next year, the priaeto consist of a purse of 2000 sovs.

Beach has finally declined to low Planlan for the championship except in Australia, Hmilan haa since offered to row Beach on the Nepean River, near Sydney. A sculling match lock place ie-day on the Thames between O. Neilsnu and Lergan for £IOO a side. It resulted in an easy victory for Neilson, The water was rough, and Largan gave up before completing the full distance.

The Prince of Wales has written a letter to the Committee which was formed for the purpose of presenting a testimonial "to His Royal Highness for his exertions in connection with the Indian and Colonial Exhibition declining a personal present, and requesting (hat the funds which have already been collected shall bo devoted to the Imperial Institute. The Committee have acquiesced in this proposal, believing that the desire of the donors would be to act as most acceptable to the Prince. The Exhibition will be closed on November 10th.

. Mr Norton, in an interview with Sir Graham Berry, explained that the statements attributed to him at the Paris Congress were misreporled. He admitted that the working class of New South Walls endoeved the policy of Victoria regarding the New Hebrides.

The Committee- appointed by the Prince of Wales to enquire into the complaints about the treatment of Ans-inui’-.u Mu>s at the Exhibition examined Messrs Thomson and Scut, who alleged that the monopoly enjoyed ly Messrs

Spiers ’end Pond was the most serious cause of dissatisfaction. They contended that instead of granting the sole right of sale to any one firm bars should have been established under the management a, colonial commission - , Tho Committee considered that the Company had in the main carried out the wishes of the Ans--1 iralum executors, hut that some of the details of (heir management were open to objection. Sir P. C. Owen states that Spiers and Pbnd’a contract ends on Novemb. r 9th, and he promises that if the Exhibition be prolonged as suggested the views of the colonial vinegrowerp shall be adopted.

Sept, 28.

An important meeting in connection with ih*! establishment of the Imperial Institute was held at the Mansion House yesterday, A Committee is being formed for the purpose of raising the necessary fnnda for carrying out the project.

Agrarian outrages have occurred in Kerry, where nineteen moonlighters have been captured.

La France declares' that the slave ring in New Caledoiilu is at the bottom of the r agitatiGn about the New Hebrides,; and advises the evacuation of those islands by France. A Company has been registered with a capital of £120,000 to purchase the Bonnie Dundee mine at Charters Towers, in Queensland. New York,. Sept. 27. Mr Parwell has written a letter to the American Leagues urging them to continue to find funds in view' of■ the present coercion and evictions in Ireland. I San Francisco, Sept. 27. The Union Company’s Mararoa left here on Saturday last, 25th inst,, at 4 k p.m., for Auckland and Sydney. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, Sept. 28. The Waihora left this afternoon. Port- Darwin,. Sept. 28, Official information has been received from Derby that 12!bs of gold had arrived .there under escort from Kimberley goldfields. Many diggers who returnsd > from the field have been. disappointed * because they arrived there without being properly equipped. Those, boweVer, now on the field are reported to ha earning more than wages.