TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1619, 11 August 1887, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, Aug. 7. Oranges by the Austral arrived sound and fresh.

The Joss occasioned by the fire at Whiteley’s shops, Westbourne Grove, is estimated at half a million sterling. Two thousand persons are thrown out of employment by the disaster. The goods traffic on the Midland Railway is entirely restored, a fresli body of drivers and firemen having been secured. The men who went on strike are applying in large numbers to be reinstated. =

It. is reported that Russia is increasing her Pacific squadron. A writ of error has been granted in the case of Maxwell the murderer, and the result is that the execution will probably be indefinitely postponed.

Aug. 8. A conflict has occurred between some Orangemen and Nationalist excursionists near Belfast. Three persons were shot, and the train was wrecked

The Board of Trade’s enquiry into the loss of the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Tasmania, on the coast of Corsica, last April, has been brought to a conclusion. The Court found the second officer mainly to blame for the disaster, and ordered his certificate to be suspended for two years. ’ Captain Perrins, who perished at the wreck, was exonerated. By the conflagration at Whiteley’s three persons were killed, and many others received injuries of a more or less serious nature. Mr Whiteley expresses a firm conviction that the fi re was the work of an incendiary. The premises and stock are almost uninsured.

The mails per P. and 0. steamship Kaiser-i-hind (Melbourne, June 28th) were delivered to day via Brindisi. The New Zealand Company’s Rimutaka, from Lyttelton, 30th June, arrived at Plymouth to-day. In the House of Commons to day, Mr Smith, replying to a question regarding the State-aided colonisation scheme, stated that Government was unable to guarantee advances to settlers, and doubted whether the colonial Government would approve any arrangement which would be profitless. The Imperial Government, however, would invite the colonial Governments to co-operate with it, since it was unable to propose to Parliament the scheme of a guarantee. The cargo of frozen mutton on board the Rimutaka, which arrived at Plymouth to-day, is in good condition. Signor Crispi has been appointed Premier of the new Italian Ministry. In consequence of M. Perry’s refusal to fire ! more than one shot, General Boulanger taunts him with cowardice. The Consul-General warns the Hawaiian authorities that naval prosure will be brought to bear if the Government repudiates the loan borrowed in England. Vienna, Aug:. 7. :

Prince. Eerdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotba, and Prince-elect of Bui* garia, starts to-day from Ebenthal for Sofia.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, Aug. 8. The hull and cargo of the Austrian barque Ganges, wrecked at the Heads on the 29th ult., has been sold for £165. Aug. 9. , Sailed—Waihora for the Bluff. Albany, Aug. 8. The P. and 0. steamer Ballarat, with English mails of July Bth, arrived in the Sound fbis morning.