TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1710, 13 March 1888, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London. March 8.

Lord Charles Beresford, speaking at tho United Service Institute, said that the navy was quite inadeqna'e for the defence of British trade, and that the whole system wag utterly rotten. The Marquis of Hartington, speaking at Ipswich, said it was impossible for the Gladstone Liberals and the Onion Liberals to re-unite, and they would be obliged to constitute s third party. He admitted that the Liberal Unionists could not stand alone, and he was not ashamed at the alliance which bad been entered into : with the Conservatives. The attacks on the Crimes Act had utterly failed, and Ireland could afford to wait until the experience of the Government should show them that local Government might be extended to her. The Rugby Union have decided that one member of the proposed football team for the colonies is a professional player, and the others are suspected of being ineligible for the same reason. The Directors of the Bank of Australasia declare a dividend of 12 per cent,, and carry forward £12,800 to the reserve fund. March 9. Tho barque Lanoma, from Launceston to London, has gone ashore in the English Channel. The vessel has now broken up. The captain and eleven of the crew were drowned. March 10, The English team of footballers sailed for Australia to-day. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melsodrne, March 7, A serious burglary epidemic has broken out in this city, and four cases were reported to-day. Eighty new constables have recently been sworn in. March 10. Government have received a communication from the Royal Society enclosing a resolution passed at the annual meeting advising the Australian Governments to refuse to allow the introduction of disease for the extermination of rabbits. Stdney, March 9. Mr Hobbs (Freetrader) and Watkins (Protectionist), have been nominated for the vacant Cumberland Uentral seat in the Assembly, There is a hitch in the construction of the great Hawkesbury bridge, two cylinders being found out of the perpendicular, which will have to be set right before the superstructure can be erected. Six racehorses were burned to death in a stable near Mudgee last night. It is supposed to be a case of incendiarism. The question of the legality of selling newspapers on Sunday was settled by the Court of Appeal to*day, the decision being against defendant, who had been fined by a Magistrate. He applied for an order restraining the Magistrate, and on the decision being against him went to the Superior Court, which, after considerable delay, has confirmed the decision, one Judge dissenting, ihe po ! ice here havo been requested to inquire into the whereabouts of Chas. Blackenburg, architect, of Sidney, who left on a trip for the benefit of bis health at tho end of 1886. Subsequently a telegram was received that he arrived at Dunedin. Since then it hap been ascertained that the telegram was not sent by himself, and no trace can bo found ot him. March 10. The local press conchmn the action of the Government in forcing the police to prosecute persons selling newspapers on Sundays, and declare that the sale of tramway and railway tickets must, under the recent judgment of the Court, be stopped, Tho Broken Hill shares havo again reached £4OO per share here and at Adelaide. In Melbourne they are quoted at £892. Government, after long consideration, have decided to offer colonial firms work in manufacturing fifty locomotives at £BOOO each. This is about the English price and below the lowest tender, The offer is not looked on with favor, as the margin is not considered sufficient, in view of the rise in copper, tin and steel, and the probability of a further advance in the event of war, March 11. for Wellington. Adelaide, March 9, The Directors of the McDonnell Ruby Mine Company have accepted the offer of the English capitalists to purchase the mines subject to the decision being confirmed by the shareholders. March 10. Owing to the large exodus of farmers from here to Victoria the Government have been urged to advertise that suits’, hie districts in the soqih-east portion of the colony sni elsewhere are still open to agriculturists, Some of the evidence taken by the land commissioners who were requested to make enquiries into tho position of farmers, show that privations of a most pitiable character have been undergone, '

Rubies hare been found in the Broken Hills district. Two pounds weight were picked up in a short time, near Poolamncca, and rough tests of them gave satisfaction. The color is not so deep as the stones found in the Mount McDonnell mine. Brisbane, March 9.

White, a dentist, while in a drunken frenzy, shot his wife in the neck last night, and then immediately shot himself dead. Mrs S. Whits is seriously wounded, but is expected to recover. She only arrived here in February, and married White after a fortnight’s acquaintance, White was given to drink, and the couple had arranged to live separately, and the wife was on the eve of her departure when the tragedy occurred.