TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1711, 15 March 1888, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, March 10. Arrived—Ship Opawa, from Napier ; Otaki, from Lyttelton ; all well.

Her Majesty the Queen dined with the Prince of Wales to night, in honor of his silver wedding. The Right Hon. J. Morley urges the National League to distribute tracts in the Colonies setting forth the claims for Home Rule in Ireland.

The steamer City of Corinth has been sunk off Dungeness through coming into collision with the barque Tasmania. Twenty-nine lives were lost.

Mr Pearson of South Australia, has sold four of the original blocks in the Mount McDonnell ruby mines for £200,000. •: The Copper Syndicate’s profit on the year’s transactions will be £16,000,000. They declare that the fear of over production is unfounded.

March 11

. Mr Labouehere’s motion protesting against the principle of hereditary legislation was rejected by sixty-one. The Gladstonians supported the motion, and the Marquis of Hartingion opposed it.

The Prince and Princess of Wales receivad numerous presents on the occasion of their silver wedding Several provincial deputations also coo. veyed congratulations to them.

The Times taunts the Prince of Wales with patronising cattle drovers and prize fighters.

March 12

Major Burrows has been fined £4OO for assaulting Lord De Walden. The affair rose out of a society scandal. The Maharajah of Cashmere has offered generous aid to England in securing the defence of the Indian Empire. Mr Henniker Heaton, in his paper read at the Colonial Institute, declared that the postal loss on a Id sea route would be within £15,000, without allowing for (he increase of letters. Ho denounced the oppressive cable monopoly and advocated the Imperial and colonial purchase of the Eastern Extension Company’s lines, and the construction of a Pacific cable. This would enable the establishment of a la tariff,

Mr Cecil Raikes, the PostmasterGeneral, in reply to an enquiry, slated that a uniform postage stamp for Great Britain and the colonies was not practicable.

The stars presented by the Khedive to the Soudan Contingent, in recognition of their services in the late war, have been shipped by the steamer Oroya for Sydney.

Severe gales have been experienced in the English Channel, and several of the Boulogne steamers narrowly escaped being wrecked near Folkstone. Telegraphic communication with the Continent is interrupted. Three of the Brixton lifeboat crew were drowned in going off to the wreck of a vessel named the Syria,

Plymouth, March 10. Sailed —Kaikoura, for New Zealand, Paris, March 12.

The French exhibits at ihe Melbourne Exhibition will occupy 70,000 feet. A large number of pictures will be sent. The principal buildings in this city, were illuminated in honor of the Prince of Wales’ silver wedding. Rome, March 10. His Holiness the Pope is indisposed. St. Petersburg, March 11.

News has been received here from Central Asia that the railway has been completed as far as Bokhara, and the first train has reached there.

San Francisco, March 10. The R.M.o. Alameda left here to-day for Auckland.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, March 13,

The woollen manufacturers are agitating for increased duties on imported goods.

1256 students have entered the Working Men’s College, Sydney, March 12,

In connection with the recent rffer made by the Government for the manufacture of locomotives within the colony, the locomotive manufacturers intend to ask the workmen to consider the matter, as the work can only be taken up if the men will consent to a redaction in wages, Ironmasters say they will accept the work if the Government will increase the price to be paid for each locomotive from £3OOO to £3260 each, and will be content with a profit ol 5 per cent. On a former occasion the men refused to agree to a redaction in wages.

The Onion Company of New Zealand have entered into an agreement with the Government to run steamers to the New Hebrides regularly. Arrived —Maroroa,

March 13

The departmental report has been male public with reference to the disease among sheep recently imported into Southern Queensland from the Navy England district ot New South

Wales. The report states that mange is cantagious and very difficult to eradicate.

The Sydney Morning Herald this morning slates that the mannfaclnrers have declined to take up the locomotive contract, as it would result in a loss, Burke and Foley have been hound over to keep the peace in a bond of £IOO each, During the hearing of the case it was elicited that the projected match three weeks ago, and both men protested against the bond, but without avail.

Companies are being formed to work the Poolamacca ruby mines in the Broken Hills district. The stones are small, but larger ones are expected to be found.

Brisbane, March 12

At the instance of the Queensland Commissioners, it has been decided that the New Zealand and Queensland Ferneries which are to be displayed at the Melbourne Exhibition shall ba in uniform glass houses.

March 13

The gold yield for the year is esli ma ed at 41 l,oooozs, being 70,0000z5, above the yield for the year ending Dec. 31st, 1886.

Adelaide, March 13.

Application has been formally made to the Government for the reward of £IO,OOO offered for the discovery of a payable coalfield. The discoverer claims to have found a rich seam of anthracite near Mount Pleasant, 35 miles north-east of this city. Information has been received from more than one of the Loyalty Islands, by the Rev. Mr Jones, stating that the French have erected two prisons, and are incarcerating all natives who refuse to join the French Church, and are rewarding all those converted to the tenets of that body. Others have been expelled. Mr Jones leaves for England to-day.

Perth (W.A.), March 18,

The Legislative Council is considering the despatch of the Secretory of State for the Colonies on the sulject of granting responsible Government to Western Australia, It is understood that the House will reject the proposals submitted by the English Government and demand a new constitution without limit or restriollon.

Hobart, March 13,

It has been determined that a branch of the Imperial Federation League shall be formed here.