TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1729, 26 April 1888, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 22

The Daily Chronicle states that his Holiness the Pope intends to prohibit Catholics from taking any part in the plan of campaign in Ireland, Arrived—Barque Helen Denny (Port Chalmers, February 4th); ship Waipa (Port Chalmers, January 29th); barque Soukar (Wellington, January 29tb) ; ship Margaret Galbraith (Auckland. January J2tb); barque Alcestis (Bluff, January 24th) ; barque Asterian (Nelson, December 17th) ; ship Waikato (Napier, January 12th). April 23,

Tenders for the New South Wales loan were opened to-day. £7.050,000 were subscribed. Tenders at £lO3 10s receive 31 per cent. Four hundred and seventy tenders were received. The average is £lO3 12s 2d. The Secretary of the Lismore branch of National League has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for intimidating Norah Pitzmaurice, widow of James Fitzmsunee, who was murdered for taking up an evicted farm in County Kerry* In the House of Commons, Mr Gladstone has tabled a motion to equalise the duties on real and persona! properly, Extra police protection has been afforded to Mr J. T. Balfour, in consequence of reports being received that the inviucibles were plotting against his life.

Mr T. J. Condon, M.P. for Tipperary East, has been arrested on a charge of inciting Irish l< nants lo withhold their payments of rents.

Berlin, April 22.

The condition of the Emperor shows a decided improvement and tlx 5 physicians are hopeful that the press nt attack has been overcome. AUSTRALIAN GABLE. Melbourne, April 23. The winnings of the Hon. J, White during the present racingseason amount, to £18,500. The police are taking proceedings against Bo'nnd and Carrol', who fought for the light weight championship on Saturday.

Mrs Rappefort, wife of Mr Hippefort, J.P., has been arrester! on a charge of stealing je.wellery, the property of the wife of llii j Bon. Simon Fraser, in January last. The, accuser! suffers from nervousness, and is not responsible for her actions. The shock of being arrested has prostrated her so much that her life is despaired of, and in consequence the charge has beet, withdrawn. Her arrest caused a great sensation.

April 24.

It is computed that the verdict of the Supreme Court awarding Bulger, a bookmaker, £25 damages for wrongful ejectment from ihe racecourse of the Amateur Turf Club, will result in a loss of £2500 per annum to the Club, as by the judgment they have no power to impose license-fees on bookmakers.

Stmtkv, April 28

A fire at Yunnedah, 265 miles N.W. of Sydney, destroyed eight buildings, including the barracks of the Salvation Array.

Those engaged in the rescue work of iho Salvation Army give terrible and distressing accounts of the immorality prevalent in this city. During the last two years the Society have passed through their hands between two and three hundred females, whose ages ranged from twelve to twenty-five years. Some of the very worst class of children were those of tender years. The Society in their report express the opinion that the numerous dens in the city are the source of much vice.

April 24,

At a public meeting held in the domain to-day resolutions were passed condemning the action of the Imperial Government in advising tier Majesty t» refuse her assent to the Divorce fixtension Bill, and censuring Dr Barry, Anglican Bishop of (Sydney, for the action taken by him in opposing the Bill. Ihe Government will introduce a Bill into the Legislative Assembly providing for the imposition ot a tax on the value of land and not on the acreage, aud also a Rill for the taxation of property. Brisbane, April 2 L

Four navvies going down a shaft to a tunnel in Fortitude Valley (Brisbane) Railway, dropped a lighted candle which exploded twenty-five pounds of powder and some dynamite detonators lying at the bottom. The men were nearly blown out of the shaft and fell to the bdttom dreadfully wounded. They were at once rescued and are still alive.

In consequence of the miners on the Croydon goldfields having ejected all Chinese except those holding business licenses, a great deal of inconvenienchas been caused as no Chinese conks an* now available on the field, end all the Chines" gard-ners Imv ■ abandoned th< ir TcgeUlJo The pfdice will) were despatched to Mount Merlin (Station, O.anowoug, to

nquire into the reported murder of a white boy and four blacks by the manager of the station, have returned, and report that the rumour is entirely without foundation, and that its origination was the outcome of spite by a boy engaged on the station. The expedition has returned from Finscbaven, and they report that they have discovered what are believed to be traces of the explorers Ton Bulow and Heinstein, and servant. The spot where the articles wetn found appears to ho re been the scene of an eruption, and it is believed that the party were eugulphed. Perth (W. A.), April 23.

The Government have accepted the proposal of ihe conn actors of the Beverley railway to connect Western Australia with India by chip. April 24, 10 a.m.

At a public meeting to-day, the action of the Governor, Sir F. Napier Broome, in refusing to sanction the construction of the Bunbury to Darling Ranges railway, was discussed, and resolutions were passed condemning his action and asking him to reconsider the question. Port Darwin, April 23.

A Chinese storekeeper here has been arrested on a charge of manslaughter. He had a fellow-countryman in his employ who became ill, and the storekeeper, to avoid the expense of obtaining medical assistance, took tho unfortunate man out into the bush, where he died after terrible suffering Irom hunger and thirst.