TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1740, 22 May 1888, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN, London, May 15.

News has been received by moil that Benson, the noted forger, has committed suicide at New York.

Mr A. J. Balfour, addressing o meeting at Battersea, said that Mr Gladstone’s speech in reply to the address presented to him by nonconformist clergymen, was one of the most violent and least creditable ever uttered by that gentleman. He (Mr Balfour) asserted that Mr Gladstone had been guilty of every offence with which he non charged the Government. Large numbers of crofters are emigrating to Canada.

The R.M.S. Rlmutaka has arrived at Plymouth all well. Her cargo of frozen meat is in good condition.

May 18. The Hou. P. DeKeyser, Lord Mayor of London, has refused the use of the Guildhall for a public meeting on the question of the defences of the country, on the ground that the present agitation is unpatriotic and unworthy of the nation.

Teemer has issued a challenge to Kemp to row him on the Nepean river for the championship of the world and 2500 dollars.

Mr Tebbs, of Auckland, has obtained the chemistry icholarship at the Westminster Medical School.

Sir James Fergusson, in replying to Mr William McArthur, said that a continuance of the Samoan convention was not desirable. In ibe House of Commons Sir John Gorst, replying to a question from Dr Tanner. M.P, for Cork, said that two of the charges preferred by Sir Frederick Napier Broome, Governor of Western Australia, against the Hon. A. C. Onslow, Chief Justice of that colony, had not been proved, and that the third was of such a nature that it did not justify the action of the Governor in suspending Mr Onslow. Barcelona, May 18.

An exhibition of the ans and manu features of the world was opened here to-day. Fifty men of war, representing ail nations, lying at anchor in the harbor, fired a salute on the occasion, Paris, May 18.

A resident here has completed a schema for bridging the English Channel from Dover to Calais. The cost he estimates at £40,000,000, and the structure would be capable of carrying four lines of railway.

Berlin, May 18

The Emperor’s health is greatly improved. He spends most of the day in attending the castle grounds at Gbarlottenburg. Professor Yirchow, who bas examined the matter discharged from the Emperor’s throat, reports that the presence of cancer is not revealed.

Constantinople, May 19. The Porte has approved of the Suez Canal Convention.

Cabul, May 17.

A series of skirmishes have tahen place along the frontier between the Afghans and Turkomans. General Alakanoff, who had been despatched to assist the Aberassed tribe, arrived after the conflict.

Capetown, May 18,

The Yolksraad of the Houth African Republic (Transvaal) bas adopted resolutions in favor of onion with the new republic, subject, however, to the approval of tbo British Government. Washington, May 19.

The contest for the Presidency of the United States will probably be confined to President Cleveland and Mr J. Blaine. The support of the Democrats will be accorded to the first-named gentleman. New York, May 19.

Reports have been received of serious floods experienced m the neighborhood of Quincey, a city of Illinois, owing to the Mississippi river having overflowed its banks. A largo area of winter wheat has been devastated, and ona hundred persons rendered homeless. Later,

Further particulars received of the floods at Quincy show that the embankments ol the Mississippi burst and flooded 200 square miles of country. Silver is declining, and is now quoted 3s s|d.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE,

Melbourne, May 18.

Sailed—Mararoa, for the Bluff. Rev. Mr Williams (President of the New Zealand Conference), moved that the New Zealand Church should be granted a separate conference, bat an amendment declining to accede to the request was orrried by 80 to 18.

At the coursing meeting of the Yictoria Club, the Derby was won by Rubenstein,

The Wesleyan Conference has appointed the Rev. Mr Morloy, of New Zealand, one of the Australian delegates to the British Conference.

May 3 9.

The Rabbit Commission will visit Trintallogy Run, on the river Darling,

in order to thoroughly investigate the disease discovered by Drs Butoher and Ellis.

May 20. At a largely attendld meeting to-day of those interested in the soft good s trade resolutions protesting against any increase in the tariff, were carried, the meeting holding that such increase would be detrimental to commerce.

Charles Markham, an employee in a boot factory at Richmond, who, on the night of April 27th, attempted to murder bis wife from whom he had been separated since Christmas, by shooting her, has been committed for trial. Accused admitted that be had Bred the shots m a fit of jealousy,

Sydney, May 18

- The labor schooner Madeline has been wrecked at Tonga. A French vessel, the Idaho, has also been lost at Arabryn, New Hebrides, In each instance the crew landed safely. Sailed—Tekapo, for Dunedin.

Two boys named Crompton and Sprigg quarrelled, and the latter stabbed the formerjjto the heart.

May 19,

The directors of the Broken Hill, Manitoto mine, Auckland, intend to return the whole of the money subscribed here for shares, and are determined to, prosecute the strict eat enquiry for ihe purpose of ascertaining who are responsible for the attempted 1 fraud which has been exposed by the recent assay of stonefrom the mine.

May 20.

The Government have accepted two local tenders for the construction of fifty locomotives, the cost being £3OOO each,

Brisbane. May 18

The mother of tbe girl Baker found murdered at Bunya, and who it was supposed had been outraged and then murdered by a black-fellow, baa been arrested on suspicion. The woman had frequently been heard to threaten the child’s life.

Perth (W.A.), May 18.

A tragedy of a mysterious nature is reported from Lagrange Bay, on the north-western coast, where a teamster named Graham and a black-fellow have been discovered in a tent both shot dead. There is no clue to the elucidation of the affair.