TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1571, 21 April 1887, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 16. Sir H. Smdtord will take with him to the Adelaide Exhibition a collection of paintings and specimens of arms and munitions of war. I The American have denounced President ICleveland's extradition treaty. It is reported that a number of them have announced their readiness to kill (he Czar. ft April 17.

Mr W. H, Smith announced in the douse of Commons that the statement that a million would be asked for the Imperial lnstitate was a ianard, Mr Gosohen and the Marquis of flartinglon have been banqueted at Edinburgh. Tbey were enthusiastically received. A French Resident has been installed in the Comoro Islands, between Madagascar and Africa. April 18. The Peninsular and Oriental steamship I'asmania, 4488 tons, went ashore on Saturday night at Monarchie Rocks, off the coast of Corsica. The women and children have been landed, but the rest of the passengers, numbering 200, remain on board. Assistance has been sent to the scene of the nreck.

Arrived, at Plymouth—Orient steamship Potosi, The Dftily New advocates the establishment of an ocean penny poßtage. A French journalist stabbed Marshal Bazainilin the head, bat the wound is not serious. It is announced that the j£arl of Cadogan, Lord Privy Saal, and Mr C. T. Ritchie, President of the Local Government Board, have joined the Cabinet, M. Flourens, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, has opened the Astro* nomy Congress. The Protection v. Freetrade struggle which took place in the Swedish Diet resulted in a complete victory for the upholders of Freetrade. Baron Nordenskjold, who proposes leading the expedition to the antarctic regions, hopes to start at Christmas. April 19.

The Daily Telegraph announces the suspension of Messrs Mann and Stogdale, the Australian merchants. The liabilities are estimated at from £BO,OOO to £IOO,OOO. The proepectß of favorable liquidation depend chiefly upon realising the goods in Melbourne. The Mahdi offers to become tributary to the Sultan provided the Soudan is allowed to remain independent of Egypt. Obituary—Sir Thomas <3tore Brown, formerly Governor of New Zealand, aged 80. Pabis, April 17, An interview took- place yesterday between M. Waddington, French Am* bassador at London, and M. Floureni, Minister of Foreign Affairs, at which the former expressed a hope that a spbedy understanding would be arrived at regarding the New Hebrides. He stated he was seeking a modus vivendt which would be acceptable to England and France. The latter, he urged, without annexing or officially protecting the New Hebrides, was entitled to create an establishment there, and in the event of disorder to land troops for the protection of French subjects. San Fbanoisgo, April 17. Advices from Honolulu report that a political federation has been ratified between the Hawaiian and Samoan Governments,