TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1772, 4 August 1888, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN, London, July SI. Henry Forbes, ihe New Guinea explorer, has been appointed Curator of the Canterbury Museum, vice ihe late Sir Julius Yon Hsast, j Kelynge and Greenaway, the principal partners in Greenaway’s Bank:, Warwick and Leamington, have been convicted of misappropriating an Australian draft for £llOO. Greenaway was sentenced to five years, and Kelynge to 12 m 'nibs’ hard labor. , j Jones, the Australian cricketer, has quite recover d from his recent severe illness, and will play with bis eleven in the match against K-nt, at Canterbury, on Monday next. { In the action brought by ; several shareholders to restrain the directors of the Bank r f Australasia froraj paying the family of the l»to Mr Parjtes ((or many years manager of the bajik, and who was killed in the Windsor jralway aecMent) a pension of £ISOO for five years, Justice North held that the grant was valid. ; August 1. The cricket match Surrey y. Australian E'even was abandoned owing to heavy rains. j Tire Local Government Bill wjas read a second litn < in the House off Loris yesterday without a division. The Btl of Carnarvon condrraued the treasure, which he drought was certain *.Oj create corruption. | A writ of habeas corpus ha’s been granted in the case of Mrs (pordon Brtillie to show cause why she should not be admitted to bail. | Paris, Juljj 81. The Socialists in this city threaten to organise a scries of general strikes in cornmemoraMon of the centenary of (he French revolution. j Fifteen thousand nmies are qow on strike in this city. The Socialists are lending the movement. j The French wheat crop is a disastrous failure. | August 1, In the Chamber of Deputies the Premier denied a report that Franc* had designs on Tripoli, and declared bis belief that Italy is maturing! plans to gain a footing in (hat country^

Berlin, August 1. , The Emperor William hastened his departure from Copenhagen, iij consequence of having met with a very cool reception from King Christian. He has now gone on a visit tojPrioce Bismarck, at Fried richesluhn.: The Emperor will shortly visit the King of Italy, and later on will make a trip to England. ‘ The Nouvelle Revue professes to publish Prince Bismarck’s secret J report against the marriage of the Prince of Ratlenburg, in which he dwells stpogly on the policy of not offending the Czar. Home, August 1. 'I he Porte has acquiesced ip the Italian annexation of Massowah.f The French Government are preparing a note to (be Groat Powers on the subject. , Durban, August 1, Information has .been received, from Zululanc 1 that Sourdeli, one of; DimZulu’s strongholds, has submitted to General Smyth unconditionally, and will surrender to that officer the jZulus who had been engaged in looting and murdering on British territory. McKean’s column is now marching on Cega, which is believed to be held by Dinizulu. , Zanzibar, August 1. Messengers arriving here statp that the position ot Emin Bey in April was very perilous, owing to the advance of the Mahdi, and that be was escaping along the left bank of the Nile. Port au-Princj3, July 31. Three conspirators convicted af incendiarism, have been executed. Their object was to oust the President of the Republic. .. , Washington, July|3l. ; Resolutions are to be introduced into the American Congress, requiring Government to demand the restoration of rams and ironclads Hying the British flag, built for speeders and paid for out of Southern money. , The Mossbrag Iron Company,; Cumberland, is establishing branch works in America, at a cost of £400,000. Ottawa, July 31, The Canadian grain estimates make allowance for an exportation of .fifteen million bushels, being a fourth above last year’s expor 1 .

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, August 1. Baron von Mueller, the well known botanist, has been seriously injured by (ailing off a traincur, August 2. Owing lo ilie leakage of gas in a bedroom of a bouse at North Melbourne three young men named James Stafford, Wm. Moran, and W, Cray, were found dead in b d. Tin- nii'cli between the English football learn and llie Mf,bourne Rugby

Union Club, under Rugby ru(es, was won by the former by 9 points tej 3. Sydney, August 1. Arrived—Notcro, from Lyttelton. A paper enclos°d in a sealed bottle found near Woollongoug, sejuth of Sydney, slates that the barque Ocean, from Belfast, bad been abandoned by the captain and crew, and that ten of their number had perished. j It is understood that the steamship owners have drafted a letter couched in in a conciliatory tone to the seamen, which, it is believed, will leave the questions in dispute open to further negotiation, 1 August 2. The Chinaman Hing Lonng, who murdered Mr Morris at B.acktown, bas committed suicide, 1 The crew of R.M.B. Mariposa are engaged discharging the vessel under police protection. The secretary of the local branch of the L*nd League has received a letter from Mr J. S. Biggar, M.P. forjCavan, W., announcing that probably two members of the Irish party would visit Australia in August next. j I The brigantine VV alternate, j which arrived yssterday from Kaipara, met with terrible .Weather on (he passage. During a gale (he vessel sprang 1 a leak and it was found necessary to jettison fifty thousand feet of limber deck cargo in f rder to sire the vessel. j At the Canterbury race ujeeting, Forbes, a jockey, was killed by a borto falling iu a hurdle race. Newcastle, August 1. One. colliery .has given notice! to discontinue blasting, and all coal in; future wi'l be hewed. This presents another difficulty, and it is believed that the masters will decline to accept the terms offeted by the miners’ conference.; Adelaide, August 2. The Rev. Mr Donaldson, Apg'ican clergyman, has been adjudicated j guilty of bigamy by the Ecclesiastical iCourt, and will come before the criminal sittings of the Supreme Court next stssiop. Brisbane, August 2. An aboriginal named George has been sentenced to death for committing a criminal assault.