TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1655, 3 November 1887, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Oct, 29. Lord Randolph Churchill denies the report that he is to succeed Lord Landsdowne as Governor-General of Canada. A clerk has been robbed «f £SOOO, the price of bonds, in Tbreadneedte street. Ihe unemployed demand that the Metropolitan Board of Works shall erect artisans’ houses forthwith, and threaten to come in thousands to compel them to acquiesce. The Board has referred the matter to a Committee. A Montenegrin arrested at Varna has confessed to being sent by a Sclav Committee at Odessa to murder Prince Ferdinand, M, Stambouloff, and M. Nachevieh, at the opening of the Sobranje, as a reward for which he was promised five thousand napoleons and an important post in the Russian service. Teemer beat Gaudaur by half a mile, and rows Bubear on the Thames in the middle of November. Sir O. Dilke, writiog in the Fortnightly Review, says the British army and navy are dangerously weak in case of invasion, bombardment of a commercial town, or the loss of some coaling stations. The colonies relying solely on England for war material increases this danger. Oct. 30. It is announced that Lord Lytton has been appointed British Ambassador at Paris, and that Lord Lyons, the retiring Ambassador, is created an Earl. The Extreme Left of the French Chamber has requested the Government of Illinois not to execute the Chicago Anarchists. A storm of excessive violence raged in the English channel last night. A large number of vessels are reported to have been wrecked, and several fatalities occurred ashore, owing to the high wind which prevailed along the coast, Oct, 81. The Moscow Gazette urges Europe to enforce the neutrality of Gibraltar. The Russian press is opposing the projected increase of the tariff. The Union Mortgage Agency Company of a 10 per cent dividend. £IO,OOO has been carried to the reserve fund. The Cass-Endacott case is proceeding. Miss Cass, in her cross-examination, admits careless behavior before marriage. The Thali, which sails on Nov. 24tb, has been ordered to search the Crozets for a wrecked French vessel. Nov. 1. The death is announced, at the ago of 74 years, of George Alexander McParren, Mas. D, Calcutta, Nov. 1. His Excellency the Viceroy is in receipt of a communication from His Highness the Rajah of Kapurthalla, in which the latter offers a donation of five lakhs of rupees (£50,000) to the Indiaq defence fund,

Melbourne, Nov. 1. It is now proposed to postpone the assembling of the Conference of Postmasters General until January. Hobart, Nov. 1. Another death from smallpox has occurred at Launceston, making the tenth since the outbreak of the disease. There are still thirty patients in quarantine. Perth (W.A.), Oct. 31. Good indicaiions of gold-bearing country have been dissevered on Hampton Plains, about 250 miles eastward of this city. Sydney, Oct. 81. The latest news from Samoa report affairs at Apia to be in a very unsettled state, owing to the German Consul at that place haying refused to recognise the legality of the constitution of the municipality.