TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1805, 20 October 1888, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. Lonodn, October 16. I At » meeting of Dalgety and Go,, limited, to-day, Mr Arthur Bla'ckwOod urged the leading English commercial firms to combine in supporting the Pacific Cable Company. The repairs to the pedestal of the sta'ue erected jo honour of General Gordon having been finished, the ceremony of unveiling it look places to-day. The statue is erected in Trafalgar Square. the owners of,the British collieries propose, to form a syndicate with a capital of £80,000,000 to take over and work the mines. The Copper syndicate have announced (hat they will purchase the ordinary brands of copper at £7B per ton, and sol unconditionally at £7B 10s. October 17. Count N. Deßobilant, Italian Ambassador in London, died suddenly today. A gigantic Scotch iron syndicate is being formed, A rumour to the effect that Sir John Gorst, Polin'cal Secretary to the India Office, would succeed Sir William ,D. Jervois as Governor of New Zealand, is denied.

flie succession to’the Governorship of Queensland is now regarded as a crtainty for the Right Hon. Henry Cecil Raikes, one of the members tor Cambridge University and PostmasterGeneral in the present Administration. Some months ago Mr Raikes was mentioned as the probable successor of Sir W. Jervois. The Bank of New Zealand has offered a quarter of a million new capital at a premium of £l. The Allotment of shares is fixed fer the 24th October,

The Court of Appeal, by a majority of four to one, has endorsed the judgment of Mr Justice Morlli upholding the action of the direc ors of the Bank of Australia 1 in granting A pension of £ISOO a year for five years to tin* family of Mr R. Pnrkes, ihe Melbourne manager of (he bank, who was killed in the Windsor railway accident, Victoria. October 18. The Jokou goldfields in Alaska bare been declared to be in British territory. Rome, October 18. AH Roman Oatho io Bishops hayA been directed to agitate in the Press for tbe temporal power of Mis Holiness the Pope, Calcutta, October 16. Tbe followers of tbe rebel I«hak Khan have yielded fo the Ameer’s troops, and Ishak has fl»d to Kerki, Batavia, October 17. Forty-two of the ringleaders in the recent insurrection have been arrested. Suakim, October 17. The rebels have again mustered in force, and are attacking tbe town, which is endangered. I?an Francisco, October 16. t Hundreds of Chinese who baye been bn a visit to China are returning here, but the authorities will not permit them to land, A. Judge of the Californian Circuit; Court has upheld tbe decision forbidding tbe return of former Chinese residents,! An appeal wi 1 be carried to tbe Supreme Court, October 17. Chinese have been stopped crossing, the border. Washington, October 17. The American (Government have decided not to agree to tbe proposal of the English Government to prohibit the; sale of arms and alcohol to the natives of the Pacific Islands. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, October 17 i Arrived Rotomabana, ; from the! Blnff. Sailed—Ship Rangitikei, for Timaru. 1 October 18. A disgraceful scene occurred in the Legislative Assembly last evening during the discussion on the new Electoral; Bill, Mr 0. B. Jones, one of the members for Ballarat East, accused the Premier of being drunk. Mitchell’s joinery works in Barnley street ware partly destroyed by fire today. Damage to the extent of £20,000 was caused. Sydney, October 16. Charles Henry has been arrested on a charge of fraudulent bankruptcy committed at Feildiug. October 17. The solicitor employed by Holt, the ex-manager of the Bank of New Zealand, has published correspondence showing that Mr Clarke, Minister of Justice, promised that Holt should be released from gaol if sixty members of the Opposition in Parliament signed a petition to the Minister praying that Holt be released. This was done, and Fir Henry Parkes, the Premier, endorsed the promise made by the Minister of Justice, but subsequently withdrew his consent to tbe course proposed. Holt’s solicitor, in a letter scompanying the publicutho of this correspondence, accuses tbe Government

of torturing Holt by holding out false hopes that his term of imprisonment would be dommuted. October 18. i The very severe drought experienced ihroUghont the colony is likely to prove 'a'raost unexampled in its effete, anil tho outlook’is consequently very gloomy. In the agricultural districts the crops are a partial dr entire failure, and the condition of ail kinds of stock is very low, A great colonial disaster can be. averted only by on early and Copious rain fall. NkwoASTLte, October 18. , Sailed—-Fijian, Barque, for Timarii. Brisbane, October 16 . The Frenchman Duliaw 11, who murdered Mrs Riley, his paramour, at Croydon, has been sentenced to death. k i October 17. A fisherman cruising in the neighbourhood of the Keppel Islands has Idiscovered the missing ship Easirainster, whijh left Maryborough for Newcastle on 17th February last. The vessel was found a long way inside a coral reef, and the hull appeared to b* intact. There was evidence that the survivors of the wreck had been on the reef, and writing was discovered on portions of the wreck, but the fisherman could not read it. Perth, October 17. A most n markable petition has just been presented to Parliameni by the proprietors of the Western Australian newspaper against Chief Justice Onslow. They allege that for the last five years they have been plundered, perS'CUted, insulted, and assailed in the basest manner, both by the public speakers and by other journals, and they cannot obtain any redress owing to the animosity disp'ayed towards them by the Chief Judge.