TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1598, 23 June 1887, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH.AND FOREIGN. London, June 19. Miss Ramsay, a student of Girton College, heads the Cambridge class in the tripos. The new Oriental Bank Company have declared a dividend of 6 per cent. The profit on the year's transactions has been £50,000 net. Arrangements Are being made by the English Government for a further withdrawal of troops from Egjpt. A number of Alsatians have been imprisoned for two years for belonging to a French patriotic leagu*. The Agente-fieneral and several colonists have been invited bs guests (o Her Majesty's garden party at Buckingham Palace on the 20th instant, Owing to rumors that an attempt would be made to use dynamite on Tuesday, Westminster Abbey has been thoroughly searched, and is being most zealously guarded. The audience will be officially warned to avoid a panic in the event of any unforeeen accident happening. June 20. Great military activity is being carried on at the Transcaspian stations, and Dhuleep Sing has petitioned the Czar for help. June 21. Brock's statue of O'Connell will be ready for shipment to Australia at the end of the year. The Hydaspes, Homeward bound from Calcutta, has gone :ashore in the Gulf of Suez. Three hundred Hungarian pilgrims have been drowned on the river Danube, owing to a raft capsizing in a squall. The man who was arretted at Queenstown, supposed to be a dynamiter, has been released, as the explosives found in his possession are believed to be only. fireworks,

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, June 21. i Rain commenced to fall at seven o'clock tbis evening, and considerably interfered with the success of the illuminations in the city to-night. Sydney, June 21. Arrived Company's steamships Tekapo and Te Anau.

A serious railway accident occurred to an excursion'train at Peat's Ferry, near Sidney, this afternoon, by which Tnoraas Wilson (driver) and three others were killed and thirty persons Three more persons have since died of the injuries received, and it is feared thre other cases will end fatally. All the wounded were brought into the city this evening, and a most distressing scene occurred at the station on arrival of the train. It is believed the accident was caused by the brake not acting properly.