TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1504, 26 October 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND Fd^EIGN. London, lOcf. 21. It is officially announced that Sir Fredk. Roberts, Ccmmanderi-tn-Chief In India, has been appointed to the command of the British forces ip Burnish, vice General Macpherson, deceased. The Duke of Madcheslef has complained that the Prince of Wales in ignoring the Colonial Institute in connection with his Imperii! Institute scheme, i •

It is estimated that half of the Scottish wheat crop is j hopelessly damaged. ! • The Rev. Mr Godwin,' Vicar of Harrow, has accepted the Bishopric of Bathurst. i

At a banquet to .Sir Apibqny Musgrave, Sir F. G, Garrick stated that Sir Anthony bad been of the greatest service in promoting federation in Australia. The latter, in reply,* considered that Australia was unable to resist foreign aggression without the assistance of England^:AssfarMs he copld see, the difficulties in the way of | Australian federation Wer,e .much overrated, and • e common,tariff, was-not essential to its attainment.

Lord Derby, speaking ati Liverpoo’, predicted am early .and rapid revival in trade. ' ; '’ ■'' ; The Standard asserts that!the'French Government - are considering military and naval pjsns-to drive England out of Egypt, and that Russia fnd Turkey approve of the French; him to neutralise Egypt and the canal. Lord Randolph Churchill; arrived in London to-day from. Paris, ; Oct. 22. i The Exhibition will close withoutceremony. It is estimated that the cost of reopening- the t Nevy Wales court as part of the Imperial Institute next lyear will be £SOOO. Investments in Queensland goldmines are causing ’some/excitement. It is proposed to form the firm of Arthur Guinness, Son and Co., the wellknown brewers of Dublin, into a company, with a capital of £6,000,000. The United'lreland publishes ; a plan for orgahLing a general strike in the payment of rent. ■ . Germany will probably be represented at the Jubilee Exhibition by the Consul at-Adelaide. Prince Bismarck has premised to aid tb© Exhibition as far as possible, but intimated" that no funds would be available till March. The Rev. F. P. Goe has been entertained at a banquet. He remarked that the menacing aspect of, the Powers may reoder fingland glad ot the help of the colonies. He also adrocated Imperial federation. , The frozen meat by ’ the iLiguria is realising B|d. New Zealand mutton is selling at from to 4£d per* lb in the Smithfield market.; v i ; Oct. 28, Mr John Buchanan, of New,, South Wales, writes to the Times.complaining of the unfairness of charging an income tax on visitors 1 , who are remainipg in' London for a time. ■ Dr KraochTs now in Loudon delineating the English and German interests in Zanzibar. , The English Government propose to grant temporary assistance to the sugar industry in Java. It is expected that Sir George Vosux, late Governor of Fiji, will be appointed to succeed Sir George Strachan as Governor of Tasmania. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s R.M.S. Aorangi left Plymouth this afternoon for Auckland and Lyttelton, calling at the Cape, Vienna, Oct. 21. Vague rumors have reached this city, that an attempt had been made on the life of the Czir of Russia. It is also reported that the Czar, fearing, without reasonable grounds, that his aide-de-camp 'meditated attacking him, killed him. Oct. 22. The rumor that an attack had been made on the life of the Cvar of Russia is proved to be without foundation, as also the statement that His M»j->sty had killed one of his aides-de-camp. i New York, Oqt. 23. Severe shocks of earthquake were ex, perienqed yesterday morning at Charles-

ton, South Carolina, ( a'bcl extending through the Stated of Ueorgia and Florida, Much dainagi* l has been done to property,'and several persons h«ve been, injured.,. , ; r AUSTRALIAN CABLE. ■ ’ ' - / : 7/ 1 Melbourne, Oct. 22. 7 Arrived—iM r anapouri, from the Bluff. : ' The 'ifriends of Stoddart Campbell, the defaulting teller of the Bank of Australasia, have subscribed the amount" of his, defalcations, and the Bank hag witiidriawn the warrant issued for his arrest. Nothing farther has transpired as to Gampbellls. whereabouts, Sydney, Oct. 22. :: The Appropriation; Bill has been passed, and Parliament wjli.be prorogued to-morrow or on Monday; Adelaide; Oct. 22. r ; ,i ■>• . ~ • , : .J | ' The mining warden at Teeiuple telegraphs that a thousand men are on the field at Waukaringa.i He asserts that only one guilds giving gold in payable quantities, and any great rush is quite unjustified. ( / J PERTk (W.A.), Oct. 23. The Western Atas’tralian Government have received’a Report from Kimberley giving a, more encouraging account of the goldfields. . a