TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1674, 17 December 1887, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Dec. 9. The Sugar Conference had under discussion the report of a public committee charged to consider technical questions. In their report the subcommittee express an opinion that it is possible to arrange for settlement of the fiscal difficulty touching refining in bond and recommend taking refined sugar as gross consumption. The Conference referred the report to the various Cabinets, and it is hoped an agreement will bo arrived at. Dec. 13. The prospectus of the New Zealand Gold Extraction .Company, with a capital of £IOO,OOO, has been issued.. The object of the conipany is to work the Newberry-Vaulin process in New I Zealand. j The Moscow University has baen closed owing to continued rioting by the students. Australia and New Zealand mails (Auckland, Nov, 7th) via San Francisco and mails ex P. and O. Company's e.s. Chusan (Melbourne Nov. 3rd) were delitered here to-day. Sir Charles Mitchell, ex-Governor of Fiji, has been appointed Governor of the Leeward Islands. • j . Mr Jasper Pyne, M.P, for West Waterford, against whom a warrant was issued for inciting resistance to the sheriff, and who, to prevent' being arrested, fortified his residence, Lisfarney castle, left his house during the night and eluding the police in the darkness, managed to effect his escape. Dec. 14. Shares in the Waihi ; Gold-Mining Company at the Thames are being allotted. A receiving order has been made against Viscount Canterbury, for noncompliance with a bankruptcy notice. Mr Pritchard Morgan states that the lode discovered by him near Dolgelly is two hnndred feet wide, and should produce a million a year. He believes that similar deposits exist in Ireland. : The immediate burial of Donnell, the rioter, who succumbed to the injuries which he received in tho riot in Trafalgar Square, has been directed, in order to prevent a public funeral being accorded to him on Sunday, The German Reichstag has, by a large majority agreed to raise the duty on wheat and rye three to five marks. A Home Ruler, writing to the Times, asserts that Dr Williams is raising a fund of £1,000,000 in America to organise outrages in England by means of British agents, The plot includes the murder of Mr J. A, Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, and others. The Austrian Military Council has again met at Vienna. The Pall Mall Gazette publishes a statement to the effect that General Willoughby, formerly ambassador, in London for Madagascar, has been sent to gaol in that island for having embezzled £12,000, the property of the Government, Canada, in retura for being granted the free importation of the fish into the United States, offers the latter large fisheries concessions. The report of the sub-committee has been approved by the Sugar Bounties Conference. The committee advocate reprisals against recusant States, but Eagtyuf however, refuses to impoee countervailing duties. The Conference refers the recommendations to the various Cabinets and adjourns until spring. Dr Williams, of New York, who is organising a dynamite warfare in England, has already collected £200,000 for the purpose. Emissaries will shortly be despatched to Liverpool to endeavor to carry out the nefarious designs of the organisation. Besides attempting Mr Balfour's life, the lives of other members of the Government will be plotted against. In the course of a speech Mr Goschen referred to the present agitation for Protection as the work of ;a r.arty desirous of disturbing the Unionist and Conservative alliance, Vienna, Dec. 13. The semi-official journal Fremdenblatt in an article to-day declares that diplomatic relations between Austrian and Russian Governments are excellent, but the military situation; on the Galician frontier remains unchanged, and demands the utmost vigilance on the part of the authorities in order to prevent Austria being taken by surprise ♦ AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Dec. 14. The Assembly has sat all night on Mr Dibbs' motion to censure the 1 Government. The proceedings have been very disorderly, fourteen members, including several of the principal members of the. Opposition having beea suspended from sitting. A motion tiias the quegtion be uow put was carried without discussion. Mr Dibbs' motion was njected without discussion, so many supporters of the vote of censure having

been suspended. The Houm ib now (10 a.m.) still sitting, Later, The evening sitting at the Legislative Assembly yesterday was one cf great confusion and disorder, culminating in a scene the like of which has never been equalled in Parliament. When the cloture was applied, on the question being put, member after member, roso and protested against the action of the Speaker. Each was successively " named " and removed below, the gangway by the Sergeant-at-Arms. Fourteen members in all of the Opposition were thus dealt with, among them being Messrs Dibbs, Lyne, Garvan, Melville, O'Sullivan, Creor, Walker, Hannall, and Wills, It was not until Mr Dibbs'motion censuring the financial proposals of the Government had been rejected, that the members "named" returned to the Chamber. Great illfeeling was manifested throughout. the proceedings, which to-day have been subject to much comment. The House did not rise until after 10 this morning. , Melbourne, Dec. J 4. ' In tha Legislative Assembly last night, the Licensing Rill was returned from the Legislative Council with amendments, which were agreed to by the Assembly amid cheers, Under an arrangement between' the opposing parlies a message is to be brought down from the Governor to-day recommending an amendment to the effect that compensation to dispossessed publicans shall include consideration forthe value f of the license. ; A deputation from the Victorian anti-Chinese League waited upon the Premier to-day, and urged upon him the necessity of providing legislation preventing an influx of Chinese into the colony. The deputation presented a resolution adopted at a meeting .held at Carlton, which was ', in favour jof th» imposition of a residential tax upon all Chinese, or imposing a poll tax of ±,200. Mr Gillies'sympathised with the deputation, and expressed a hope that the nonissue of naturalisation papers, coupled with thorough administration of the law and united action, on the part of the other colonies, would prevent Chinese from arriviug in the colony. j '■■' ' Dec. 15. A disorderly, scene took place in the Legislative Assembly last night ;between the Premier (Mr Gillies) and Mr Bent (leader of the Opposition). Mr Bent having daring the course of the proceedings alluded to the Premier as a man who was paid for passing the,Tramway Bill, a scene of great disorder ensued. The Premier denounced the statement as a deliberate lie, and demanded an apology from the leader of the;Opposition. A lengthy discussion followed, and order was restored on, Mr Bent making an apology, for the Offensive statement. . . ■ . ] Brisbane, Dec, 14.. Telegraphic advices from Mackay report that a fatal accident occuned. at, that port to-day. The A.S.N. Company's s.s. Gunga, with 150 excursionists onboard dragged her anchor and drifted on to the wharf, damaging her stern. The vessel then drifted into the stream, but the. line becoming jammed} curried away her stanchions and other gear, crushing a woman named Holloway and a sailor named Campbell td death. Several other persons sustained'injuries. .11 HI .I——■■PB^^'