TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1563, 10 March 1887, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, March 6. It is anticipated that the Imperial Conferfcnce will lead to a material rpdnction in the rates of the colonial postage. Father Beck, Superior of the Order ot Jesuits, is dead, He was 92 years of age. President Cleveland has approved of the Bill which was passed by Congress in retaliation for the action of Canada in regard to the fisheries. The session of Congress has closed. The.treaty with Hawaii has not been ratified. The Rev. Mr Beecher is in a critical Btate of health, the result of an apoplectic stroke. About 20 raids have been made in Limerick, by which ricks, outhouses, and other property to the value of £2OOO have buen destroyed. March 7. It is officially announced that the Queen will lay the foundation stone of the Imperial Institute during the coming summer. It is rumored that Mr Cecil Raikes, the Postmaster-General, is about to be appointed Governor of New Zealand in succession to Sir William Jervois.

The Emperor William is still ailing, and much concern is felt at the state of his health.

The well-known clipper ship Westland, of the Shaw Savill and Albion line, bound from Port Chalraerß for London, went ashore in the Channel during a dense fog, and now lies in a critical position. The Right Hon. G. 0. Trevelyan, in the course of a debate, condemned the want of vigor shown by Government in dealing with Ireland.

Hanlan and Gaudaur have made a match for May for a purse of 30,000 dollars and the championship of America. Both visit Australia afterwards. Hanlan will forward to the Sportsman articles of the match with Beacb, which is to be rowed on the Nepean River for -6500 a side.

The resignation of the Irish Chief Secretaryship by Sir Michael HicksBeach is the subject of general comment. The Press expresses profound sympathy with the gentleman, and regrets at his unavoidable resignation. The Burmese Chief Woon Thoteoba, has submitted to the British.

Several " Invinciblcs " have returned to Ireland.

March 8.

In the House of Commons last night, a motion of Mr Bradlaugh's, not to allow expensps of Sir Henry Drummond Wolff's mission to furkey-in-Egypt, was rejected. In the coursj of the debate, Sir J. Ferguson, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated there was every prospect of Sir Drummond Wolff's mission being successful. Brussels, March 6. A disastrous colliery explosion has occurred in this country. One hundred and forty-four miners perished. Rangoon, March 6. A powerful chief of the Yan Country has virtually recognised the British supremacy in Burronb, and public submission is expected to be made without delay. AUSTul^flftjAßLE. Melbourne, March 8. The Agent-General has forwarded to the Government here the correspondence which passed between the British and German Foreign Offices, showing that j Germany had handed over the government of the Salomon Islands to a New Guinea Company, but that the acquisition of land by the Company was prohibited. Sydney, March 7. Arrived, yesterday—Wairarapa, from Auckland ; Tekapo, from Wellington. Mr Thomson, Consulting Engineer to the Treasury, has retired from public service. Mr Julian Solomon has been appointed to the Legislative Council, where he will represent the Government. The Marine Board has suspended for six months the certificates of the captains of the Emu and Waiatah, who were both found in default in connection with the recent collision batween the two vessels,

March 8. Parliament was to-day opened by commission. Messrs Young and Dibbn were proposed as Speaker, and the former chosen by 63 to 49 votes, and duly installed in the chair.