TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1704, 28 February 1888, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Fob. 22.

Cardinal Newmtm, on the occasion of the completion of bin eighty-seventh year, officiated at two services held in the Catholic Cathedral. Ills Eminence has received congratulatory greetings from Catholics in »tj parts of the world.

Feb. 23

Lord Randolph Churchill, speaking at Oxford last night, paid that In his opinion the granting of Horan Rule to Ireland would be a desperate ami insane policy. Referring to the European situation, Lord Randolph said he leaned they were on the brink of a great rupture of the peace of Europe. - The .W'Alerloojjiggursing meeting has been postponed.

Feb. 24,

A prospectus of the London Produce Clearing Hose has been issued. Leading financiers are prime movers in the affair, The capital is £1,000,000. The Standard, in an article referring to the company, expresses the opinion that it is simply estab ished to facilitate gambling in dealings with sugar and coffee. The football match between the Oxford and Cambridge Universities was played here yesterday and resulted in a win for the former. Sir Henry Holland, who has been raised to the Peerage, will take the title of Lord Kutsford, not Lord Whitby, as at first announced. The election for the Doncaster seat in the House of Commons, resulted in the return of Mr Pitzwilliara, a Unionist. Christine NiHson, the well-known actress, has intimated her intemion of retiring from the stage, The Crown Princess has sent a telegram from San Remo to Her Majesty the Queen, stating that, the Crown Prince has greatly improved in condition, ami that he has hern able to make his appearance on the balcony of the villa in which he is residing. The meisage adds that there is every hope of the Prince recovering from his present illness. Feb, 26. The average price obtained for the Christchurch municipal loan of £25,000 at 5 per cen'-, was £lO7 2s Bd, £96,000 were off rod, Mr W. Blunt, a Home Ruler, and Mr Darling, a Tory, have been nominated for the Deptford seat vacated by Mr W. J, Evelyn. Emin Bey has communicated with Mr Htanhope, Secretary for War, that ho expected Mr Stanley with his relief party would reach him during November. Mr Chamberlain has been offered the honor of Grand Cross of the Bath, and it is considered probable that ho will receive a baronetcy in recognition of his success in arranging an amicable settlement of the Canadian fisheries dispute. Paris, Feb. 24. The Secret Service Bill, contrary to general expectations, passed its second reading in the Chamber of Deputies last evening. The majority in favor of the second reading of the Bill was, however, very narrow ; one was only secured after a threat from the Premier, M, Tirar-i, that Gavernment would resign if the bill was negatived on the second reading, Feb. 25. M, Pasteur, who is competing tor the valuable reward offered by the New South Wales Government for a remedy for the extermination of rabbits, has decided that should ho be successful in securing Mich reward he will hand it over to the Hydrophobia Institution, New York, Feb, 22. A cyc'oue, which devastated Illinois on Sunday, lias rendered fully 1000 persons homeless, AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, Feb. 24. Two startling cases of criminal assault on women are in the bands of the police. One was committed in the middle of the month, and only became known through the woman being on the point of death ; in the other case a number of men are concerned, and in both instances the victims were brutally illused. Feb. 23, Arrived yesterday —S.S. Wairarapa, from the Bluff. The Minister of Education estimates first cost of a technical university at from £500,000 to ±.1,000,000 besides a yearly endowment of at least £30,000, F. b. 26. Mrs Gumming, one of the women who was criminally assaulted a few days ago, was so badly injured that she had to be removed to the hospital for treatment, but succumbed shortly after being admitted. ihe police have arrested three ram on a charge of being concerned in this case, and in ihe other case two arrests have been made, while the police are searching for a third man, who it is alleged, took part in the assault. The assaults on the wom-n wen* m<>st brn’ft! ones, and th• 1 clothes worn by them were saturated with blood.

Sydney, Fob. 24,

Arrived—Hauroto, from Wellington, Mr W. 0. Paling, of the firm of W. H, Paling and Co., importers of pianos and music, Sydney, has given an cstatn of 450 acres, with plant and stock, an i £IO,OOO in cash, for the purposes of th-> Convalescent Hospital, and as a memorial of the centenary ot the colony, The institution is to be named the Carrington Hospital, after Lord Carrington,- Governor,

Feb. 25,

It is stated that the Reform Club intends to lake notice of the DibbsGarret scene in the House on Thursday, both being members of the Club. Mr Garrett has served a writ on Mr Dibbs fur £IO,OOO damages for accusing him of drunkenness. In order to test the grounds for the charge, Mr Garrett proposes that Mr Dibbs shall waive the plea of privilege, which as a member of Parliament ho is entitled to raise, and he will pay all costs of the action. Mr Dibbs bas not made any reply, and it is thought improbable that he will accept the challenge.

The rabbits are reported to bo dying by thousands in the Darling district of the disease on which Drs .butcher and Ellis are experimenting.

Feb. 26.

Mr Mitchell, Preetr/uler, li as been returned by a majority of 147 as mernb-r for Newton,

The .Rev. Mr Jones, who was recently expelled from the New Hebrides by order of the French authorities, states that he was never warned by the French for his alleged adronacy of Australia annexing the islands, and he asserts that he never took any action in the matter, but on the other hand, when he found the French in occupation of the New Hebrides, he did all in his power to induce the native inhabitants to submit to French rule.

Adelaide, Feb, 24,

The mining mania is stronger than ever, and fresh companies ar» being floated daily. A very largo amount of capital is pouring in daily from England and the colonies.

Brisbane, Feb. 24.

Great excitement was caused here to-day bv the report that the Queensland P.nal Establishment on St. Helen’s Island, situated in Moreton Bay, and twenty-two miles from this town, was on fire, and that the convims were escaping. A large body of armed police went on board the steamer to proceed to the Island, but it was ascertained that the gas house on the Island was ablflze, and that the terrified men thinking the prison was on fire set up screaming, and had to be released from the cells. The fire soon burnt itself out, and tranquility was restored. Feb. 26. It is reported from Rockhampton that a mailman has been drowned there during the late heavy floods.