TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1634, 15 September 1887, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.; London, Sept. 9, The cro-fters are anxious'y enquiring if factli'ies will bo granted for settlement on Flinders’ Island. The Marquis and Marchioness of Drogheda sailed in the Thames for Australia. {The Marquis of Drogheda is an Irish Peer, sitting in the House of Lords as Baron Mooro, His Lordship was born in 1825, and succeeded to the title in 1837. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Dublin, Hmarried in 1H47 thegUon. Mary Caroline Stuart-Woriley,' daughter of the second Baron Wharncliffe. Lord Drogheda is a Knight of St. Patrick, and a Privy Councillor. He also holds the position of Lord-Lieutenant cf Kildare and Ranger of the Curragh. His rent-roll is set down at about £13.000, hut about twenty of his tenants had their reins reduced 12 to 24 per cent, by the Land Court some time The International Harbor Congress. meels at London next year,

The Nile Valley is flooded to such an extent that famine is feared. In the House of Commons, Mr Stanhope stated that it was intended to undertake reforms in the War Office. There would bo a separate inspection of manufactured goods and of stores in a state ' f efficiency. Naval stores would le included in the Naval Estimates. The office of the Surveyor-General of Ordnance would be. abolished. I( was hoped these reforms would hare (he effect of increasing economy and efficiency. Workmen on the Suez Canal are agitating for eight hours a day and a whole holiday on Saturday. A plebiscite of workmen will be taken. A special enactment will bo necessary, and the agitation at present is deprecated. The barque Manbegnn, owned by J, C. Ellis, of Newcastle, New South Wales, was totally wrecked on the African coast, Her crew was saved. The Queen refused to lay the. foundation stone at.the Aberdeen Hospital, being, it is said, annoyed that the funds wen not bestowed on the Imperial Institute. The British Union Congress ia in favor of museums being open on Sundays, Sept. 11. The frozen mutton by the Iberia cleared 3£d to 3|d per lb. Mr James Robertson hag been gazetted a member of the Fiji Council. An-ived—Barque Loch Fergus, from Lyttelton (May 14lb). Sept. 12. The Tablet atates that a foreign prelate told • the Pope that a land subsidy had been offered by the New South Wales Government for the conversion ot natives. The Pope is now undeceived.

the Rock blames the Dean of Bathurst for introducing fresh practices before the Bishop’s arrival. The Australian mails per Orient steamship Potosi (Melbourne, August stlt) were delivered to-Jaj, Shrewsbury is champion batsman of the year, with the enormous average in all matches of 78.15. Sept. 13. A syndicate has been formed in Germany to raise the price of iron in October. Lord Brassey, in a letter to the Times, urges that in view of the strength of the Russian fleet in the Pacific it will be necessary to largely reinforce the Australian squadron. He suggests that several additional ironclads would be better than cruisers. Zanzibar baa cedrd a strip of her coastal territory to Germany. It is proposed to impeach Naraveloff and Radoslavoff, whojhave been arrested, for treason. Berlin, Sept. 12. The Emperor William left this city ou a visit to Stettin. Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 12. The Shaw Savill steamship Doric left here yesterday (Sunday) evening for Plymouth. Her cargo of fuz-n mutton is in good condition.