TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1525, 14 December 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Dec, 9. The capital of the Union Mortgage and Agency Company has been subscribed twice over. Sir Coutts Lindsay has . withdrawn bis offer to send the Grosveridr feallery collection to the Adelaide Exhibition, but, notwithstanding, it is expected that there will bo an excellent collection of examples of British ar'. Four hundred and fifty exhibitors, chiefly English, have applied for 54,000 ft of space.. Applications' <will be received up to January next, and the first allotment will shortly be made. , ; Sir Allen Young is inclined to take the lead of the commercial expedition to the Antarctic, • He has been guaranteed £BOOO, the amount to be reduced if the whaling, which it is proposed, Ip undertake, proves successful. - Dec.-10. It; is announced (bat the British Government have agreed to cede Port Hamilton to China on the Chinese Government engaging not to allow any other Power to annex that place. The frozen mutton from, Sydney by the Potosi realised 3£d per lb. Mr H, M. Stanley is about to lead a private expedition to the Soudan. General Boulanger has expressed bis readiness to continue in office, provided a heavy vote for armaments is passed. Herr Brosarl informed a Secret Comimittee that Russia and France are stronger than Germany and Austria, and that the passage of the Bill for increasing the German, array is imperative. Arab slavers bare been captured at the Stanley Falls, on the Congo. An expedition to. Equatorial Africa has been arranged, under the guidance of Mr H. M. Stanley, for the relief of Emir Bey. New Zealand frozen mutton, prime quality, continues at 4d. The barque Earlscourt, 1068 tons, Captain Frampton, bound for Albany, Western Australia, with a cargo of railway material, has been wrecked on the coast of Glamorganshire. Four of her crew died from exposure. The hall of the vessel remains intact. .The Earlscourt is a new vessel, having been built at Glasgow in 1885, and is owned by Mr W, J, Kidd, of Liverpool. Dec., Al. A serious boating accident occurred at Southport to-day, when a, lifeboat capsized, and 13 of its occupants were drowned. , Five thousand Russian troops will winter at Odessa. ..... , The agreement between England and Germany greatly curtails the Zanzibar territory in favor of Germany,/ - Mr W. Mc-irtbur, a supporter of Mr Gladstone, has been unseated, on a scrutiny being taken, for the Bactcrose division of the East, Riding, Yorkshire. He has been succeeded by Mr Sykes, Conservative. Later. At Southport yesterday, 1 after the first boat had capsized, a second was despatched to, the rescue, of the same vessel as the previous boat was bound for. This met with the same fate as the other boat, and capsized, 14 persons bung drowned. DeC. 12. ■ Ihe Spectator, referring to the proposed conference on colonial defences, deprecates the leading colonists being; allowed to act as delegates, as tending to lessen the power id the AgentsGeneral. Shares in the Redhill Mining Company, Nelson, have baen allotted. The Caledonian Mining Company, Charters Towers, lias been registered, with a capital of £IBO,OOO. Rome, Dec. 11. The death is announced of Marco Minghetti, the Italian statesman and diplomatist. St. PETERBnURQ, Dor. 10. A denial has been issued to the report recently current that M. Labanoff would replase M. de Giers as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Paris, Dec, 11. M, Goblet has succeeded in forming a Cabinet. For the present be will succeed M, de Freycinet as Foreign Secretary, General Boulanger retaining his position as Minister of War, and Admiral Aube that of Minuet of Marine and

Colonies, In the Chamber of D- 0 i to-day, M. Goblet announced tha• new Ministry would follow (fiie policy of Miide.Freycinet, but promises, internal reforms. : , ••■M l - 1 * ■ ■ AUSTRALIA GABL*;:■« ,; MRLB i oußNfej;'De& lb. Beach has accepted . Han. anVc'Ulenge to row him on the Nepean Uiv- 1, and has made the ’first deposit of £250 'nitb ;tbd sporting editor bttbe Australasian. The Legislative Assembly,‘irbieb i »- been sitting. a\\ night,, rose at ib;--e o’clock this afternoon, a compromise, having'been effected between, the Government and the Opposition,- which' is regarded as tan tafrduil 1; to a victory fo r ■ the., la I ter. r - Sydney, Dec. IQ.I An attempt was m'ude to-day to tow off the s.s.' Eorangamite,' which'receh IV ran ashore at Purvis Bay, but the effort proved unsuccessful. j. ~,! Dec. 12. The position of the. ißorangamite re mains unchanged. ADELAIDE, I). C.r 1,0. 3 „ Arrived—Orient Meant-.;., from i lymouth. ~ . v .'V