TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1707, 6 March 1888, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, March 1. Mr Darling, Conservative, has been elected for Deptford, defeating Mr Wilfrid Blunt by 4345 votes to 4090. Mr E, Stanhope, Secretary of State for War, in his Army Estimates proposes to expend over a term of three years a sum of three millions in the military defence of mercantile ports and coaling stations; £885,000 to be spent on the latter, including £28,000 on armaments at Albany and Thursday Island. The War Office hopes to despatch guns to all coaling stations this year, with the exception of two, The War Office Committee have drawn up a report on the condition of Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Thames defences, which shows them to be in a dangerously insecure slate. The Army Estimates amount to £16,700,000. Madame Eba, the Australian vocalist, whose debut at Brussels recently was pronounced such a brilliant success, will shortly appear at Oovent Garden Theatre, Intelligence has been received here that a tomb has recently been onearthed at Raida, a seaport town built on the remains of the ancient city of Sidon, in Syria, and that there is indisputable evidence that the remains contained in the tomb are those of Alexander the Great, who died iuBabylon b.o. 323, Shares in the London Produce Clearing-House are at an enormous premium. The House will deal largely with Australian leather. The Scotsman publishes the Edinburgh police record, exposing Mrs Gordon Baillie, who hag recently been concern* ing herself with emigration, The record states that Mrs Baillie is the daughter of a laundress, and has been several times wanted for defrauding tradesmen, and also that she once recieved a Benten of nine months at Dundee, Bishop Moorehouse, speaking at Manchester, said that the Victorian plains, properly irrigated, would support a population of 3,000,000, and expressed bis opinion that if such a scheme of colonisation wap carried out, it would result in mutual advantage to the Imperial and Colonial Governments. March 2.

The South Eoketer Gold Mining Company, Auckland, with a capital of £75,000, has been registered. At a meeting of shareholders of the New Zealand Mortgage Investment Company a committee wag appointed to formulate a scheme of reorganisation, March 3. It is announced that England will annex Christmas Island, Fanning Islands, and the Penrchyn group in the Pacific, The New Guinea vote has been placed on the Estimates, and it is almost certain it will be agreed to. Over one hundred Unionists cordially supported the amended procedure rules, which so far are working excellently. Paris, March 1. Destructive avalanches have occsrred in the Alps and Pyrenees. A number of villages have been engulphed. Thirty persons were killed by the avalanches at the towns of Bparone and Pagare. M. Wilson has been found guilt/ of trafficking in the sale of decorations and has been sentenced to pay a fine of three thousand francs and to suffer two years’ imprisonment and deprivation of all civil rights for five years after the expiration of his term of imprisonment. The Italian and French tariffs hare been raised from 20 to 50 per cent. March 2. M. Flourens, Minister of Justice, in the course of a speech in the Chamber of Deputes, lust evening, said that the islands of the New Hebrides Group were barren and that the climate was unhealthy. He said Government regarded the Group as a cause of responsibility and great annoyance. The convention was solely for the purpose of regulating the police arrangements, and did not affect the International situation. New Panama Canal bonds to the value of 340,000,000 f. have been issued. At the trial of those Implicated in the War Office scandals, M. ftibandeau was sentenced to eight months’ imprison- i ment, M. Du Bredie to four months imprisonment, and Madame Eatazzi was acquitted. Berlin, March 2. The Emperor has issued a decree, in which be states in the event of his inability to give active attention to State affairs, Prince William, son of the Crown Prince, will act as regent. San Remo, March 2, The Prince of Wales has arrived at (Ills place, and is now with the Crown Prince. The physicians in attendance on the Crown Prince are exceedingly reticent os in his condiiion. The German doctors and Sir Morrell McKenzie still disagree as to the treatment to ba proscribed.

Rome, March 3. A body of rioters caused disturbance by pillaging a number of shops fend stoning the occupants. Troops were called out and charged and dispersed the mob. Massowah, March 1. The Negns at the head of 00,000 men is shortly expected to make an attack on the Italian troops under Lieutenant-General Aadi San Marzano, commandant-in-chief. New York, March 2. The American Tariff Bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives. It provides for the reduction of the tariff by 35.000,000d01s on woollens, and 11,000,000d01s on sugar. After the Ist July next all wools are be admitted free of duly to the United Stales. The Bill also provides that flax and hemp shall be admitted free of duty. It is generally considered probable that the Bill will prove acceptable to the House of Representatives, but it is doubtful if the Senate will pass it.