TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1725, 17 April 1888, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 112. Two thousand emigrants embarked at Liverpool to-day for Canada.

Baron de Worms has entertained the Agents-General at a banquet. Lord Koutsford, Secretary of State for the Colonies, presented the Prince oi Wales, on the occasion of his silver wedding, with 1 the ; 'collections received from thirty-two of the smaller colonies. His Royal Highness has replied, thanking Lord Knutsford for the valuable present.

Arrived ■— Cormorant, barque, from Lyttelton (January 6th), Rangitikei, ship, from Auckland (December sth), Herscboll, ship, from Napier (December 6th),

April 18

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have decided to increase their capital by £1,500,000. The amount is now being issued. Paris, April 11. The General Boulanger agitation is seriously depressing rentes.

April 14.

The Republique Francaise demands that legislature should protect the Republic against the action of General Boulanger whose recent actions are regarded as a menace.

Berlin, April 12.

The Emperor Frederick suffers a good deal at night, and his physical condition is less satisfactory.

April 13.

The Emperor’s health does not improve, and the condition ot the larynx is growing worse, Morrell Mackenzie is consulting with the German doctors. It is believed that the malady from which the Emperor is suffering has now attacked the trachea, and that another tube will have to be inserted, Mabsowam, April 12. The Italian troops are re-embarking, Washington, April 12, The Democrats have postponed their Fund Bill, and the deadlock has ended after eight days’ continuous sitting. «. • AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, April 13, Owing to the great demand for space at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, an extra building is to be erected. The Railway Commissioners decline to appoint a Board of Enquiry into the charges Against Mr Allison Smith, as they are of opinion there is nothing to justify them, April 14. Extensiye irrigation works are projected in the Wimmera district to cost £215,000. Official statistics give the yield of wheat at 10.81 bushels, potatoes, 4.11 tons, bay 1,41 tons. From December 12th to April I2th there have been 1070 cases of typhoid fever in this city, 235 ending fatally, Stdnbv. April 13. Jd.M.S. Diamond leaves for Noumea to-morrow to witness the formal evacuation of the New Hebrides, April 14. Mrs Lakeman, wife of Mr Allen Lakeraan, member for Balranald, and mother of the child who died of smallpox last week, and her domestic servant have developed smallpox symptoms. Both have been isolated.

Fifty French soldiers from the New Hebrides, invalided home, have arrived en route for Prance.

The blood stallion Country Boy has been purchased by Mr Caine, of Wainui. His Excellency the Governor has received a cable from Lord Knutsford. Secretary of State for the Colonies, intimating that the dispatch from the New South Wales Government on the Chinese question is under the consideration of the Imperial Government. Catherine Blake, who was charged with the murder of her father at Tamworth, has been acquitted. A second charge of murdering her infant sister is pending against her. Sailed—H.M.S. Caliope, for Tonga. April 15.

The Speed frell has been wrecked midway between Newcastle and Sydney. The first boat which was launched was smashed to atoms, but fortunately the crew reached the shore. The second boat, which was in charge of Captain Samson, also reached the shore in safety, Brisbane, April 13. The population of the colony is 354,000. Adelaide, April 13. Pleuro-pneumonia has broken out at Eudunda, seventy miles north of Adelaide. Precautions have been taken to prevent the disease spreading.