TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1550, 8 February 1887, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH ANDi FOREIGN. London, Feb, 3. The reply of Mr Koikes to the request made by the Agente-General concerning the modifying of tenders for the Australian mail contracts was imparled Jo the Agents to-day. The PostmasterGeneral stated that the Imperial Conference would strive to e icit the views of the colonies in regard to the postal service between England and Australis, In the meantime he should consider whether it would be desirable to make further arrangements until the meeting of the conference. Mr G. P. Vernon, of Middlesex, will select a mixed team of amateur and professional cricketers to visit Australia next season. He is acting on behalf of the Melbourne Cricket Club. Sir H, Blyth has advertised for a successor to Professor Castance, of the South Australian Agricultural Department. It is believed that Mr Raikes wM delay in dealing with the mail tenders until the ocean penny postage has been debated in the House of Commons. The Canadian and Electron Mining Companies, Queensland, intend to® increase their capital by £20,000, The collection of ferns exhibited in the New Zealand court have hern presented to the Prince of Wales, and will be conveyed to his residence at Sandringham. Lloyds has posted as missing the barque Allahabad, which sailed from Glasgow for Port Chalmers on July 2nd last. In the House of Commons to-day, Sir J. E. Qorst, Under-Secretary for India, replying to a question, staled that a report from Afghanistan that the Dewani tribes had attacked a British station at Kalabdnla was untrue. Lord Randolph Churchill, who left today for Monte Carlo, will make a tour through Algeria and Tunis for the purpose of recruiting his health. Feb. 4. Mr Ayerst Ingram has been elected President of the Anglo-Australian Society of Artists. Sir F. Leighton* Sir J, Gilbert, and Mr W. J. Linton have been elected members. The Society proposes to send a collection of pictures to Australia in August. The Sportsman states that the action of Shaw and Lillywhite in promoting an English team for Australia next year is not favorably regarded in the cricket circles. The Pacific Cable Company has not yet been officially announced. Mr Harold Finch-Hatton has been appointed Secretary, The Canadian Government will pajr the expenses of Captain Morseby in the Alert’s survey of the route of the proposed Pacific cable from Vancouver to the Sandwich Islands. The other expenaes will have to he borne by threat Britain. The Committee of Experts appointed by the Prince of Wales to report on the fruit imported from the colonies complain of the careless pack, which is especially noticeable in the shipment of grapes. They point out that good ventilation is essential to the successful packing and carriage of fruit. They also advise that a company should be formed in England t» work the business. An analysis which was made of Australian wines is of a favorable character, Feb. 5. The Standard considers Shaw’s action io arranging to take an English cricketing team to Australia unfair, and urges Melbourne and Sydney to take combined action in the matter. Mr Stanhope stales that the cost will preclude the Government from publishing Major Parrot’s Soudan reports. Another survivor from the ship Kapunda has been discovered, his name being Wm. King Russell. In receiving a deputation yesterday on the subject of State-aided emigration to the colonies, the Marquis of Salisbury discouraged the idea. The capital for Allsopp’s Brewing Company has been covered thirty times, Verdi’s “Otello” has been received with great success in Milan, Feb. 6. In the House of Oommone yesterday, I Mr Cromer's amendment to the Address

in Reply, proposing the immediate evacuation of Egypt, was rejected by a majority of 86 votes. In the course of the debate Sir James Ferguson, Undersecretary for Foreign .- flairs, staled that it was impossible for the British Government to withdraw their troops from Egypt until.their responsibilities with regard to that country had been accomplished. Paris, Feb. 3. The Republique Fraucaise to-day publishes a telegram staling that in the recent engagement at Massowah between the Italian and Abyssinian forces the former lost 436 men and all their guns. It is further stated that Ras Aloula’s troops forced the first lunches at Massowah. Rangoon, Feb, 2. With the approval of Col. Bernard, the British Chief Commander in Upper Burmah, Aboo, the Budhist Primate, has issued an edict calitig upon the Burni'-se to peaceably accept the British rub. It concludes by stating that a free pardon will be granted to those rebels who surrender b fore the 16th icsUut. Capet wn, Feb. 4. The Kaikoura sailed Cii- aflern on. Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 4. The Aorangi arrived lids afternoon. Washington, Feb. 6. • An express train from Boston and an ice train collided and t<> k fire to-day. Forty of the passengers w u re burned. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, Feb. 5. Typhoid fever still continues throughout Victoria. Since (he beginning of the year 806 cases have been reported, of which 68 proved fatal. From 20 to fresh oases are reported daily. A discussion is being carried on in the Melbourne daily Press as to who should initiate the movement for celebrating the Queen’s jubilee, The Government decline to do so, as no provision for that purpose has been made in the Estimates. Sydney, Feb. 4. The Mararoa sailed this afternoon. A 150yds race took place to-day in Sydney between Hutchens, the English pedestrian, and Samuels, the Australian, The latter won. Time, 15 l-sthsec. Feb. 5. All the members elected for the Sydney electorates are freetraders with the exception of two.