TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1576, 3 May 1887, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 28. s|Lord Salisbury is expected to modify li;6 firnt expressed opinions regarding tbn New Hebrides. A torpedo bo»t, built by Thorneycrufts, has averaged a spoed of 26 knots. April 29. At a banquet given )>y the Fair Trade League last night, Sir Graham Berry declared thai fair trade had-given unexampled prosperity to Victoria. -Sir-Samuel Griffiths, of Queensland, in the course of bid speech, expressed the belief that a Custom* union of the differeut parta of the fcropire was not feasible. He urged that higher duties be imposed on goods inipiiried from foreign countries than the are imposed on British or colonial productions. Proposal submitted to conference. The Colonial Union Company's capital is £50,000, and New Zealand as well aa Australian meat will ha imported by th*m. Sir Graham Berry snd Sir S. Samuel haT<* arraugrd with Mr Cecil Rftik-B that England and Ausiralia shall contribute to the mail subsidy in proportion to the mails carried. Sir ArtburGordm's Ord«r-in-Council preventing the registration of land purchases by Englishmen in the Pacific has been cancs'led.

JpMr Pender proposes a cable guarantee by the colonies based on tbe average of tbree-fourths of the receipts during the three yean ending 1886. The/guarantee terminates at the close of the present •abvention. Taimania will be Mowed to tnter on a similar basis to the others. There is no prospect of Sir J. Vogel's purchaie scheme being accepted. Canada has asked for an increase in the guarantee to tbe Pacific cable of from £IO,OOO td £30,000. The Times saggests tbat the English •rid Australian Antarctic CommitUes should invite Baron tfordenskjold to lead the Antarctic Expedition.! < The report that the King of Sweden' and Mr Oscar Dickson were assisting the Baron in forming an expedition in denied, * Some diplomatists regard the remarkable display ot French naval forces in the Mediterr*nean as a menace to Egypt or Italy. The Admiralty •barer in the anxiety oyer tbe affair, Ihe following is the resnit of the Thousand Guineas Stake, run to-day at Newmarket:—.Beve d'Or 1, Porcelain 2, Freedom 3. The Queen is now returning from France. On her arrival in England she will proceed to' Windsor. April 30.

The final meeting of Commissioners of tlie Indian and Colonial Exhibition was held to-day, under the presidency of the Prince of Wales. The report showed that after all expenses bid been paid a surplus of £35,000 remained., Of this sum it was decided t 6 ' dsrote £25,000 to the funds of the Imperial Institute. M. Waddington, French Ambassador, promise* to forward an answer from his Government respecting the settlement of the New Hebrides question on Tuesday. ConstastinoplH, April 28. Negotiations regarding thai future gorrrnrn'-nt of Egypt ere still proceeding. Sir Drummond Woltf, British Commissioner, proposed that the evaeua. tion of Egypt Should be sompleted Within five years. Kaiamil ai»d Said Pashas, the Turkish Commissioners, have rejected the proposal, and applied to the Sultan for farther instructions as to the course they shall pursue. Cairo, April 29. Intelligense is to hand from Wady Haifa that the Egyptian troops, under Colonel Cbirnside, recently attacked the rebel Dervishes who were encamped in the Wady Haifa district, and inflicted a severe defeat upon their leader, who was killed, together with a large number of followers, and their camp captured. Rio db Janeiro, April 28. The R.M.S. Kaikoura arrived yesterday afternoon. Her cargo of meat is in good gooditioii.