TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1638, 24 September 1887, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Sept. 19, A proclamation has been issued by the Irish Executive ordering tho suppression of the National League in County Clare, and in a portion of five other counties. Sept, 20. The Northumberland Miners' Union refuse to continue allowances to Mr Thomas Burt, M.P. for Norfolk, and to ¥r Charles Fenvtick, M.P. for Wansbeck. The Radicals are insisting on the expulsion of the Bourbons and Bonapartists. The Queen has expressed a desire that Great Britain Bhould mediate in the difficulty between Italy and Abyssinia, if it can be offered without umbrage to Italy. Mr Walter Prince, of Dunedin, has purchaeed an electric tram-car patenf. The frozen mutton, ex s.s, Po'osi, is realising 3|d per lb. The Marquis of Londonderry, LordLieutenant of Ireland, and Mr Balfour ore protected by a strong body of guards. Mr Labouchere urges resistance if the police interfere with orderly meetings. There is a disposition to transfer to Melbourne the Irish Court at the Manchester Jubilee Exhibition, with additional manufactures, if allowed a separate court. The Pall Mall Gazette charges Colonel Francis C. Hughes Ballet t, member of the House of Commons for the City of Rochester, with ruining Miss Selwyn, his stepdaughter, and insists that he shall resign his seat. Later. Two hundred branches of the National League iu tlie Counties Clare, Galway, Kerry, Cork, and Waterford have been suppressed under the Crimes Act.

Owing to the continued spread oi cholera in Messina (Italy) 50,000 of the inhabitants have fled from the city. Tho anarchists and socialists threaten diro vengeance if the Chicago anarchists found guilty of b?ing concerned in the proposed attempt to kill the Czar are executed.

The inquiry into the death of the victims of the recent Exeter Theatre fire lies been brought to a conclusion. A verdict of accidental death was recorded, with a rider severely censuring the magistrates of the city and the architect of the building. The Rev. Canon Camidge, Vicar of Thirsk, Yorkshire, will be inducted to the Bisbopricof Bathurst in Westminster Abbey on Octobpr 18th. Mr O'Brien has declared that if convicted on the charge on which be stands committed for trial he will not perform any prison tasks. Sept. 21.

The Pall Mall Gazette has further accused Colonel Hughes Hallett of embezzling Miss Selwyu's money, which ho afterwords reimbursed, and also accused the Government of intending to disregard the whole matter. Colonel Hallett denies the accusation. Mahommed Noor, a companion of Ayoub Khan, in his flight from Persia. has been captured near Herat. The Bulgarian Government has apologised to Germany for the insult cfferod to the Consul at Rußtchuk, The apology has been accepted, and the warships recalled.

The French wheat crop is estimated to vield 117,000,000 becto'itras. The liabilities of Lord Loftus are set down at £50,0C0, of which £30,600 is secured. He dates that when Governor of New South Wales he spent £3OOO per annum in excers of his salary, and that ever since 1853 his salary has always been below his expenditure. His pension of £I7OO per annum is the only free asset. Coional Hallett states that Miss Selwyn is no relation to him, and that he has no stepdaughter, as his present wife is his first wife, Arrived —Blengfel 1 , schooner, from Lyttelton (left June 17tb). } Sept. 22. H.M.S. Egeria, surveying s'oop, has been ordered to Australia. The Arab slavers have refused to evacuate Stanley Fillb. Mr Kilbride has been elected to the House of Commons in place of Mr John McUonnor for (South Kerry. Paris, Sept. 20. A son ot M. Schncebell, sixteen yean of ige, has been arrested, by the German authorities for a seditious placard on a post on the Lorraine frontier. 1 Sept. 21. La Temps, referring to the arrest of M. SchncebeU'B son, declares that the youth of the offender renders his arreit unimportant, but regrets that the incident should have occurred, aa it will tend to again arouse soreness between France and Germany.