TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1665, 26 November 1887, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Nov. 21.

Mr Allcock proposes that, in the event of a New South Wales cricketing team visiting,England, they shall play three matches against England at tlie Oval, Lords, and Manchester, two~e«ch against Yorkshire, Surrey, Notts, Gloucester, and the Gentlemen, one each against North of England, Sussex, Players, Middleyex, Kent, Oxford, Cambridge, Lord Lonsburgh's Eleven, and Past and Present Cambridge.

Mr Cecil Raikes, the PostmaiterGeneral, clftims that the carriaga of parcels shall be included in the new mail contracts, but the companies object to the proposal, Mrs Mary Jeffrie?, on a charge of keeping ft brothel, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment and fined £4OO. Mrs Jeffries obtained a great notoriety about two years ago when she was fined ±.200 on a similar charge. R. T. Barnum's loss in the recent fire is estimated at 700,000d015.

The sugar market is quieter after the recent speculative advances. Trade demand has been satisfied. German beet sugar is quoied at 13s 9d per cwt. The stock of raw sugar in England is 30,000 tons below last year's supply. Nov. 22. Ayoub Khan will return to Teheran. Nov. 23.

The Northumberland Miners' Union, which carried a resolution in September last refusing to contiuue the allowsnce to Mr Thomas Burt, M.P. for Morpeth, and Mr Charles Fenwick, M.P. for Wansbeck, has now recinded that resolution.

William Stimaon has been fined £IOO for selling bad New Znaland meat, Bishop Cameridge, recently consecrated to the see ol Bathurst, is in feeble health, Buffering from debility.

A force of 700 Boers threatened to setee Swaziland, a tenilory situated to the north of Zululand.

TLe Daily News urges that the Tongans exiled during the recent troubles ought to be permitted to return.

San Francisco, Nov. 20.

Union Company's S.S. Zealandia left here yesterday (Saturda;) morning at ten o'clock for New Zealand.

Berlin, Nov. 23,

His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince continues in wonderful health and spirits, breathing freely, and with his ability to swallow unimpaired. «. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne. Nov. 23. Sailed—Manapouri for the Bluff. Arrived Rotomahana, from the Bluff.

Messrs Shaw-Lillywhite's eleven defeated a team of 22 representing Maryborough by an mnings and 21 runs.

Sydney. Nov. 23.

At yesterday's evening sitting of the Assembly, a bill authorising tho name of the Colony being changed to Australia has passed its first reading, on division, by 58 votes to 18. Considerable opposition to the new name is manifested both in this and other colonies. Tho proposal has been discussed by the Victorian, South Australian, and Queensland Assemblies, the idea being generally ridiculed, as a piece of unwarrantable assumption, the taking of a federal name by a single colony. Sailed—Waibora, s.s., for Auckland. Brisbane, Nov. 23.

In the Assembly to-night the Naval Defence Bill, after a most determined opposition, passed its second reading by a majority of four, the numbers being : for the second reading 23, against 19.