TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1728, 24 April 1888, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 20,

The libel action of Peters v. Bradlaugh resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff for £3OO damages, Mr Bradlaugh has apologised for the statement that Lord Salisbury had given cheques, for the purpose of organising unemployed gatherings in Trafalgar Square, and the proceedings instituted against him have been abandoned.

The Daily Chronicle states that the Pope directed Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, to prepare a report on the principle of the Irish National League, also to explain the charges preferred against it and the nature of the outrages which have recently taken place in Ireland. The report is to be compared with M. Persico’s.

Mr Goschen, at Oreydon, deprecated, in view of warlike prospects, the army reductions on the basis of taxation. He charged the Opposition with changing front in obstructing the County Government Bill.

Father Macfadden’s appeal against the sentence imposed upon him for inciting to resistance has been dismissed, and the term of the sentence increased by six months.

The sentence passed on Mr Blane, M.P., which was appealed against, has been increased by six months. Dr Arnold’s funeral look p!»cn today, and was attended by the leading literary and poutical personages of England,

Arrived Ship Waipa from Port Chalmers, All well. The ship Orari from Oamaru, and the Waikato from Napier have arrived in the Channel. Jem Smith has accepted the challenge «f Peter Jackson to fight for £IOOO. Arrived S.S. Elderslie, from Pori Chalmers (March 2nd). An explosion in one of the collieries at Warkington, Cumberland, resulted in the death of Keren hands.

The sentence of three months passed upon Father Stephens, for inciting resistance, has been confirmed. Eight thousand emigrants embarked at Liverpool on Wednesday tor Canada and New York.

The, cargo of the barqu» Abeona, from Adelaide to London, took fire. Sixty bales of wool were jettisoned before the fire was suppressed. The whole of the new capita) of the. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (limited) has been subscribed.

Four boycollers, who appealed against the term of imprisonment for which they were sentenced, have had the term doubled. The members of tin* National League are greatly incensed at the increased imprisonment imposed by the Appeal Court in the recent cases. April 21.

In the House c.f Commons to-day, the Local Government Bill was passed through its second reading on the voices. The compensation clauses, providing for compensation to publicans whose licenses were refused, were freely debated.

Reports received from the missionaries in Brazil allege that 4000 of the natives living in the outlying provinces there have been poisoned in order that possession of their land might be obtained, and they also assert that there is another scheme on foot to poison 5000 more.

Miss Ormerod, to whom were forwarded specimens of the insect which had attacked the wheat crops in the Rangitikci district, has identified them as the true Hessian fly.

Lord Knutsford, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has written to the New South Wales Government to the effect that the proposal of the latter to exclude the immigration of Chinese into Australian territory for the period of twenty years, presents serious difficulty, At a trial to-day of the Oiswick factory wire gun, a projectile weighing 3691bs was thrown a distance of 21,000 yards. The peers and their heirs arc almost unanimous in petitioning for a reform in the House of Lords.

April 22.

The Orient Steamship Company have not declared a dividend this year, but have increased the reserve fund by £270,000. The reported poisoning of Brazilian natives is officially denied.

Paris, April 21,

M. Goblet threatens that France will retaliate should England impose a duty on bottled wine.

The centenary of La Perouse is to be celebrated in this city. St. Petersburg, April 20.

It is reported that the Government have secured a number of steamers for the purpose of transporting troops to Bulgaria.

Bucharest, April 20,

The agrarian revolt reported sonv days ago is subsiding. Luring the excitement the peasants commit cd terrible outrages, and there were frequent encounters with the iroops. The .Roumanian Press demand that Count Kritoro, the Russian Am.

bassador, be expelled from Roumanian territory.

Ottawa, April 21

Several of the counties in Ontario have by a large majority decided against the renewal of local option with regard to licensing matters, AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbournb, April 20. The City of Melbourne Bank has declared > dividend for the half-year of per cent. April 21. The particulars reported of the collision between the steamers Oceania and Casino, show that the farmer vessel was going at the rate of sixteen knots through, the rip at thd Me(hoyrne Head s when the Casino crossed her bows. The Casino had a miraculous escape from being cut down, and only escaped by a fvw f*ot.

The eleventh eight-oared race between crews from Victoria and New South Wales was rowed this afternoon, and ended in a victory for Victoria by three lengths. This is the eighth victory secured by Victoria in these annual contests.

An eight, hours’ demonstration took place this afternoon. There was an immense procession of representatives from all trades, and the streets were thronged with spectators. Boland defeated Carroll tor the light, weight championship, and ±,200 a side. The Landgrave Frederick William Nicholas Von Hesse, accompanied by his sid-He-camps, Baron Von Idugo and Baron Vou Stark, has arrived here. He is nephew of the late Emperor of Germany.

Stdnsy, April 20, The Undine was sold to a firm of contractors in Melbourne for £ISOO.

Sir Henry Parkes considers, so far as the colony is concerned, that there is no further need to inquire info the Chinese question, as the ultimatum of the Government has already been forwarded to the Home authorities.

The surveying ship Egeria, which Bailed yesterday for Auckland, is to survey the new mail route, which it is understood will be from Sydney to the extreme north of New Zealand, and thence to British Columbia, connecting with the Canadian-Pacific Railway, A Chinaman living in the heart of the city was found to-day suffering from leprosy, and was taken to the lepers’ house.

April 21.

James Druit, who was convicted of having committed a criminal assault on a child of tender years, has been sentenced to death.

At the .Rose Hill races to-day Mitraik lease won the Ryde Handicap. April 22. Arriyed—Manapouri, from Russell. Adelaide, April 20,

The Chief Secretary addressed the electors. He enunciated the Government policy, and mentioned it was intended to ask Parliament to sanction a half million loon, also a Bill to be introduced, imposing a poll tax on the Chinese in the Northern Territory, and to make it retrospective. A Bill will also be introduced empowering l the colony to join the Federal Council, to which the Chinese question will be submitted.