TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1566, 17 March 1887, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, March 13. Reports have been received of the unsatisfactory nature .of the financial management of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, and a thorough searching audit is demanded, and the complete statement of receipts and disbursements so long promised. General disgust is now being expressed at the de|ay in producing the accounts. | The P. and 0. Company have given £SOO to the Imperial Institute. The Economist expects a surplus in the revenue of a million and a quarter. 'lhe Royal Thames Vacht Club is organising a Jubilee Race, to be held on June the 14th, and open to the world. The race will be round the United Kingdom, and a prize of £IOOO will be given. 'I he Radicals fear that the Government intend to “ dish the Separatists by accepting the principles of the Chamberlain scheme, and to apply the Canadian system of Government to Ireland.

In accorJance with a piomise made in the House of Commons when the charges of corruption were made against the London Corporation, a Committee has been appointed to investigate the whole matter.

An enquiry is to be held on the 21st into the collision between the Ada Melmore and the Kapunda.

March 14.

Latest news from Yougbal, County of Cork, states that the excitement there has quite subsided. The duty imposed on foreign flour imported into France has been fixed at eight francs. A number of Russians have presented General Boulanger, the French Minister of War, with a handsome sword, ostensibly as a handsome of personal respect.

Mr Doakiu, Chief Secretary of Victoria, who is now in England as a delegate to the Imperial Conference, has been in communication with the Italian authorities as to the mode of irrigation employed in that country, with a view to the representation of the Italian methods at the Melbourne Exhibition. In addition to prosecuting enquiries on the subject, Mr Deakin has himself inspected the Cavonr Canal. March 15. It is announced that the Marquis of Salisbury, and other Ministers’, will attend the opening of the Imperial Conference. The Press will be admitted to the opening, and to a few final sittings of the conference. Aden, March 13. The Portuguese Governor of Mozambique has been ordered lo proceed to Zanzibar for the purpose ot renewing relations between the Sultan and the Portuguese Government. Calcutta, March 13. The Indian Government has ordered a survey to be made of the Khowjam Amram range of mountains, with a view to extending the Quettah Railway in that direction.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, March 14. The police have ascertained that Charles Aug ustus Smyth, local preacher, who on Tuesday last was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for defrauding Retollick of £I2OO, bad previously imposed upon several people in Dunedin and Christchurch, where he was suspected of incendiarism. He recently married a girl, while his wife is alive. He will probably be indicted for bigamy. March 15.

A Committee of Experts, who were appointed to report on the working of Wolsey’s sheep-shearing machine, have staled that the quality of the work done is all that could be desired, and the gpeed of the machine is about equal to that of a fair average shearer. Sydney, March 14. Arrived —Mariposa, from Auckland. March 15.

At a freelrade banquet last night, Sir John Robertson, in proposing the principal toast, said that the Preetradp Association did more harm than good during the recent elections for the New South Wales Parliament.

Sailed—Hauroto, for Wellington Brisbane, March 14. Heavy rains are reported from many parts of the colony. A cyclone has hern experienced at Burketown, near (he Gulf of Carpentaria. No serious damage occurred. March 15. By the cyclone at Burketown eight lives were lost. The damage to property amounts to from twelve to twenty thousand pounds.