TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1553, 15 February 1887, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH, AND FOREIGN. . London, Feb. 10. Belgium proposes to send a good| collection of picluwfoand Limoges pottery to the Jubilee Exhibition. The Elswick factory intendlo show some Hotchkiss and other guns. . | ’vV{ A half-interesfin the Liverpool dill mine at Ruahworthi Victoria, was ! sold tor £13,000. : •- The Chairman ' of the Tasmanian Railway Company threatens to appeal to the Impend! Government. ijf a settlement of tlieir claim be further protracted. , - ,i D | A meeting of the AgentS 4 General ot the Australian; colonies, Mr. 6ecil 1 Raikes, Postmaster-General, andj the Managers of the Peninsular j and Oriental and , Steamship Companies will take place on Tuesday, when the question of the carnage of mails between Great Britain and the Australian colonies will be discussed. ■; \ The death is announced of Mrs Henry Wood, the popular novelist, aged sixtyseven. Sir Charles Warren, Chief of the Metropolitan Police, has contradicted" the statement that on the occasion of the Socialistic meeting at Clerkenwell a body of roughs pillaged several of "the shops in the neighborhood. The Italian accounts state that in the engagement at Massowah 600 men were opposed to. 10,000 Abyssinians for four hours, inflicting terrible loss on their assailants. The Standard denounces the neutralisation of Egypt, proposed by Sir Henry Drummond Wolff. Lord Dunraven has resigned because he saw no hopes of financial reforms being enforced by the present Cabinet. There js intense excitement in Newfoundland over England’s refusal to allow the export of bait from the Canadian ports to bo prohibited. Dillon and others, recently arrested, will be tried on Monday. At a concert given in the Opera House, San Francisco, at which Madame Adelina Patti was singing, a man, who is supposed to be a lunatic, threw a bomb at the lady. The only one injured was the man who threw the J bomb. ' The. London Chamber of Commerce has abandoned its claim to have a separate Institute in the city for the I exhibition of articles of British com- I merce. * Mails per Mariposa, from Auckland I (Jan, 3rd), were delivered, via San Francisco, here to-day. 3 Feb, 11. | In the House of Commons to-day, j the debate was resumed on Mr Parnell’s amendment to the Address-in-Reply, i denying that disorders existed in Ire- ( land in districts where rent has been t suitably reduced. On the motion being ( put, a division took place, and the amendment was rejected by a majority of ] 106 in a full bouse. The voting was as | follows Ayes, 246 ; noes, 352. ' f A loan of £2,500,000, bearing 4 per ] cent, interest, , for the Government of Queensland is announced. The mini-; mum is fixed: ai par. Tenders will be j opened on the 18th inst. 1 The remains of the late Archbishop Vaughan were interred at Belmont 1 Priory on Tuesday. Little ceremony f was observed, the whole cost of the | obsequies being under £lO, It is hoped that the friends of the deceased j prelate will subscribe.to erect a suitable < monument over his remains. The Rev. { Jerome Vaughan and Mr Reginald i Vaughan were among those present at J the funeral. < Obituary—The Duke of Leinster, and the Rev. Richard Young, a well-known i Sydney clergyman. j An extensive conspiracy has been i detected in the Russian military schools, j A petition is being organised asking c the Czar to subjugate the Christian pro- ] vinces of Eastern Europe still under the i Turkish yoke. Thousands of people arc ~. ! i signing the document. | France has withdrawn her opposition i to the abolition of the corvee (forced | labor service) in Egypt. 8 The purchase of the Sydney assets 1 of the Commercial Bank of South Aus- f tralia by Messrs Wilson and Co. has 1 fallen through, owing to the London trustees being unable to legally transfer , all the assets- d

:-i • E'b, 12. In the House of Commons Mr Bright, referring to the Home Ruleproposa’ls of the late Government, deplored * the folly of Mr Gladstone’s action, which r he considered led to the breaking up of the Liberal party. The result was a con’spiracy in Ireland which had been j' destroying landlords, and was a step toi wards tbe separation of Ireland from the • Mother Country. 1 . The New Zealand Shipping Comt pany’s Tongariro left Plymouth this . afternoon for Auckland, calling at Capetdwn and Hobart en rou f e. 1 ~ Rome, Feb. 12. ; The Vatican will shortly despatch to i Pekin a mission for the purpose of assuring complete,;,liberty and security ; to the Roman Catholic population in : China. Berlin, It is understood that a secret treaty v hks been concluded .between Germany and China. Rangoon, Feb. 12. News has been received from Upper Burmah that Iswaba, one of the rebel chiefs, has refused to accept the proposal recently made calling on all rebels to; surrender, and offering pardon to i those who do so before tlie 16th hist, tie is engaged in destroying a village of the Burmese who were friendly to the Britiib, and is organising an attack on the British garrison at Woqnthp. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Hobart, Feb. 11. The Tainui brings 300 passengers for New Zealand. One case of scarlet fever pcbtirred on board, bat the patient recovered. She sailed yesterday afternoon for Auckland. Sydney, Feb. 12. Arrived, this morning—Union Company’s s.s, Hauroto. Of 62 members how elected to Parliament 48 are freetraders., Mr Gairett, Minister of Lands, was returned at the head of the poll at Camden, All the Ministers are now re-elected. Sir Patrick Jennings and Mr . Wisdon have been appointed delegates to the Conference in London, and leave by the Chimborazo next week. ; Later. Eleven supporters of the new Ministry were elected yesterday, making a total of sixty Ministerialists and thirteen Oppositionists who have been returned to the Legislative Assembly. In addressing a meeting at Wallsend yesterday, Sir Henry Parkes was hooted by the population, and had to obtain police protection. The Right Hon. W. B. Dailey, who was seized with an apoplectic fit on Friday night, is now better, but perfect rest has been ordered by his medical advisers, H.M.S. Rapid has arrived from the ] New Hebrides. She reports that the French troops are behaving in an unfriendly manner to the. natives. It is also reported that there is fever in the French camp. j