TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1731, 1 May 1888, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 26.

The shipping ring admit the grievances com plained of by shippers, but state that at present they are unable to comply with the demands of the latter, owing to the contracts under which the ring are already bound sod must fulfil. Reports have been received from the Brazilian Government denying th<* rumors that natives there had been poisoned, Jake Kilrain offers to present Lees, ot Australia, with £IOO if the latter will box him for £IOOO, the former to use three ounce au J Lees one om.ee gloves. Lord Knutsford, Secretary of Stale ior the Colonies, considers that the colonies must have been mistaken in their former reports to the Colonia Office, when he referred to the Chinese as useful lab irers. fie slates that the proposes of the Ausira ian Goverumeo s on the Chinese question have b—n laid t efore the Marquis of Sailsbury, and that it is probable they will shortly be submitted .u ihe Cabinet for consideration.

April 27.

bank of New Zeeland shares havsuff ml a further di cone, end are n quoted a l £l4. •'if Mnmiurd elites t ha ! alidrs in Nt-w Zealand are gtng from had to woree.

*Sir William F. D, Jervoia is amongs’ fifteen candidates selected by badot tor lellowsuips of the JEioyttl Society. Lees, Uie Australian pugilist, 18 willing to accept Ktlndn’s offer lor a fight, providing the latter wilt bring himself down to equal weight. Kilraiu lias, however, declined.

The German Lloyd’s Steamship Company have lost during the past year £87.000, chiefly owing to branch lim s or disasters In their, vessels. Bank of New Zealand shares have ris n in value, and aie quoted at £l6.

Mr Baden Poweil is tu mioued »s likely to succeed one of the Australian Governors.

'J he wiie gun made at the Elswich Factory burst while bring tested. Morgan has been geived .with an injunction io restrain him Irom the removal i.f gold from Muwddnch mine, in North Wales. April 28.

H'T Majesty the Queen has re timed to Wiuds. r.

The Australian eiicketers plav Chorntin’s team »t Ni rbury on the 7'h May, Cairo, April 27.

A letter written by Lnptoti Bey in November last from Omdurman h»s reached K'Tcsko, in the letter tie appeal lor money and clothing to tnali e him to escape from the .arubs, who retain him as » prisoner.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, April 27.

Arrived —T« An«u, from the Bluff. Ih* prospectus has been issued of a new Bank, to be. called the JRoyal Bank of Australasia, The capital is £3,600,000. At a public meeting to-d»y resolutions were carried urging the Legis ature to pass without delay a Bill providing tor the extension of the franchise to women.

A plague of r«ts has visited the Echuca Plains, doing great damage to the feed there.

A passenger by the Oroya has been arrested on a charge of smuggling £2OO worth of jewel ery ashore. The steam r Afghan, from Hong Kong, has arrived with 300 Chinese on board, 100 of whom sought admission to the colony unirr somewhat suspicions circumstances, and the authorities have refused to grant them permission to laud until a searching investigation has been made into the circumstances of their arrival. April 28,

At Carisbrook, the Rev. Mr Oregens, aged 60, has been charged with seducing his servant, de denies the charge. The ,Hev. Mr Connall, an Anglican clergyman, who was a passenger by the Carthage from Adelaide, committed suicide on board the steamer, while suffering from melancholia,, A passenger ty the Oroya, who was charged with smuggling jewellery, has been fined £25, and ordered to forfeit the smuggled articles, £2OO worth,

One hundred and five of. the Chinese passengers by the Afghan are booked for New Zealand. It has transpired that the naturalisation papers held by a number of the passengers were not originally issued to them. None of the Chinese have been allowed .to land.

the top storey of Rock’s furniture warehouse in Uollins Street was gutted by fire last night, isxtensive damage was done to the stock. The insurances amount to £BOOO, A sensational attempt to murder was made at Richmond last night, A young woman nomed Msrch»m, living apart froqa her bus-hand, receiv'd u telegram, brought by a cabman, r cj noting her io go to her mother, who, it was staled, w>is ill. The woman aucoin pauied the csbrnsn to her mother’s

house. While she wag alighting, th« husband, who appears to have been in Waiting, fired two shots from a revolver, one of which penetrated his wife’s cheek, #nd the other lodged in her neck. IV women is in the hospital. The cabmen and the husband made off. The former was ofierwards secured. The. husband, who had previously threatened his wife’s life, has not been captured. The telegram employed in the affair was a bogus message.

Sydney, April 27.

In view of the possible danger Irom the introduction of the fly from New Zealand, the Government intend to deal with the subject in « Bill, which is b-ing prepared, providing for the prevention of the introdu-tion and spread of the disease.

The expulsion of the Chines from the Croydon gohtfields is un->u horised by the uovernment.

Arrived- Tekapo from Oamaru, Arrived—Wakatipu Irom ApriT'2#. i Arrived William Turner, from' Auckland,

At ihe Canterbury Races Mi railleuse won the Flying Handicap. It is estimated that the population of Aoe'r.lia «t the end of December lasi was 3,500,000-: Hnckl-y, a clerk engag d by the Official Assignee, has been arrested on a charge of embezzlement, ami it is alleg r) that the defalcations amount to *IOOO.

Newcastle, April 27, Arrived —Annie Bow, (rum Timam Bkisbane. April 27.

Ihe schooner Friendship is reported lost with all hands on the northern coasl. A quantity of wreckage wth the name of the vessel has been picked up on the b acli.

Abraham Street, the confidential clerk to a well-known wholesale firm, was to-day committed tor trial on twenty charges of embezz'ing money, the propern of his employers. The amount invnlvd is said to be several thousands. April 28.

The nomination of candidates for Parliament took place to-day, when six members, who have declared therascdves as Oppositionists, were returned with out opposition

Cooktown, Apri! 27

H.M.S. Lizard, which struck a re?f to the northward of here on Wednesday morning, lias been floated off without sustaining any injury, and has return d to port.