TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1671, 10 December 1887, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Dec. 6. In the absence of Sir Saul Samuel, who obtained six months’ leave, Sir Daniel Cooper will act as Agent-General for New South Wales. Dec. 7. Mrs Cameron Lees, wife of the Rev. J. Cameron Lees, is dead. One of the persons injured during the riot in Trafalgar Square recently, named Linnell, has died in the hospital. The Radicals are arranging a public funeral. The reports current that a Fenian plot to murder the Marquis of Hartington had been discovered, are believed to be without foundation, The Marquis is under police protection.

Mr O’Donnell: has been entreated to withdraw the libel action preferred by him against the Times, as members of the National League dread the disclosures which may take place at the trial.

The fixtures suggested by Mr T. M. Alcock for the Australian eleven which visits England next season have been generally accepted, an additional match being played with Yorkshire, making tlire''for that county to be played at Sheffield, Bradford, and Huddersfield, The first match of the team will be against Surrey, at the Oval, on May 34th.

Mr Cecil Raikes, the PostmasterGeneral, has announced that the San Francisco, mail service will be continued until November next,

President Cleveland, in his message to Congress, stated that the surplus next time would be one hundred and forty million dollars, which would imperil the financial situation. The tariff laws were vicious and illogical, and required amendment, which could be done without injury to manufacturing interests. The wool tariff was illusionary and injurious to the farmers, At a banquet to-night given in honor of Mr James Service, who is leaving for Australia, Lord Rosebery remarked upon the growing interest evinced by Englishmen in the affairs of the colonies. His lorship referred to Mr Service as one of the greatest colonial statesmen, who are pillars of the empire. In conclusion he wished him God speed, knowing he would do his utmost to strengthen the union of the colonies and the mother country,

Mr Wm, Pritchard Morgan has discovered, near Dalftdly, a town in North Wales, a quartz reef estimated to yield at least 2ozs and probably 6013 to the ton.

£140,000 hare been invested by the trustees of the Imperial Institute as the nucleus of an endowment for that institution.

Bubear claims that he has a stronger

title to the championship than either Oliford or Kemp, and he challenges anyone who disputes that claim to row him on the Thames. President Cleveland’s message to Congress has created a profound sensation, and is considered to have improved Mr J. G. Blaine’s prospects at the next presidential election. President Cleveland in delivering it urged politicians to abandon all partisan spirit in dealing with the fiscal policy, and said that Preetrade was irrelevant, the duty of Congress being simply to reduce taxation and adopt steps to enable manufacturers in the United States to compete with importing houses. The Committee of the German Reichstag advise the rejection of the proposed increased corn duties. It is reported in Berlin that the Triple Alliance have asked Russia to explain the massing of troops in the vicinity of the Austrian frontier, President Carnot urges the Extremists and Moderate Republicans to unite in order to destroy the power of the Royalist party. The Liverpool Journal of Commerce states that a decided revival of trade is manifest. Mr Cecil Raikeg is inviting the colonial Governments to agree to a uniform rate of postage by direct service, and expresses himself personally in favor of a 3d rate. Paris, Deo. 6, Three hundred convicts have been embarked at La Rochelle, their destination being New Caledonia.

Washington, Dec. 7, Congress was opened to-day. The I President’s message was confined to the tariff and financial questions, The message nrges Congress to take immediate steps to reduce the present surplus, and suggests as the most favorable method of doing so the reduction or abolition of duties upon wool and imposts upon raw material used in American manufacturing industries. Rio db Janeiro, Dec. 5. The Coptic sailed for London this morning. Her meat cargo is in good condition, Vienna, Dec. 7. A senr-official journal to-day referring to the missing of troops by Russia on the Austrian frontier, intimates that , further provocative action on the part

of that country will compel Austria te resort to responsive measures.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, Dec. 7. Sailed-—Wairarapa for the Bluff. ’ The Legislative Assembly sat all last night, and only rose at one o’clock this afternoon. The subject of the debate was the Public Service Amendment Bill, which measure the Government was forced to abandon. The lion. M. B. Hawke, the cricketer (now Baron Hawke), will leave for England in the Orient Co.’s Ormuz on Friday next, Dec. 8. A deputation of representatives of the Presbyterian Church waited upon Lord Carnarvon to-day in connection with the .New Hebrides question. The deputation dec)aired thatthe French Government interfered with their converts nnJ plantations. They asked his Lordship to lay the caso before the Imperial authorities, and begged that the rights of British settlers might be respected. Lord Carnarvon said that he sympathised with the request of the deputation. He carefully abstained from expressing an opinion on the subject. His Lordship, however, promised to comply with the request of the deputation in bringing the matter under the notice of Her Majesty’s Government, Sydney, Dec. 7.

The Naval Defence gnd Portress Bill has passed the third reading in the Legislative Assembly to-day. Sir Henry Parbes, replying to the other colonies on the subject of changing the name of New South Wales, deals sarcastically with the objections raised, and maintains the right of this colony to name itself “ Australia,” as there is no question if adopted the name could not affect other colonies.

Dec. 8. Sailed—Te Anan for Auckland. Arrived—Hanroto trom Wellington. In the Assembly to-day Mr Abbott gave notice to move that the colony of New South Wales be re-named “The World.” Perth (W.A.), Dec. 6. The Executive Council has unanimously advised the suspension of Chief Justice Onslow, which advice His Excellency the Governor has acted upon, communicating the fact to the Chief Justice, who is to be placed upon halfpay, pending the final decision of the Secretary of State for the Colonies,