TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1810, 1 November 1888, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN; i London, October. 201 The Admiralty propose to,build'Rur more ironclads and six cruisers. '|' i The coal owners in Yorkshire and Derbyshire resist the ; denoands for !an advance in The Wales collJers have conceded' an advance, of ten |jer cent to thermeh.., ; j October 21, ihe Lancashire miners having |refused to .arbitrate the owners have I yi'ld«|d to.^heir. demands. / ;, , £700,000,: ib gold, from o'otsjde ,pnarkots and|.Paris, has ( beynshipped to Russia; .I j,. Mr.. j^ or .Ireland, is visiting Dublin,, yvhero Ibe is protected ;by an unusually, string escort. :i Proceedings have been opened, in Jhe action;-. Parneli y, the Times,’’.ln,, the Court of Session, Edinburgh, ; : October 22| The Emperor of Dunam has ceded! to the French the provinces of Haiphong, and Touram. ' The Earl of Dnfferin has been created I a 1 marquis, October 23. New capital has* been subscribed for the Bank of New Zealand amounting to £600,000. It is understood that Cardinal Mbrzn wi'l be created an Irish Archbishop at the first vacancy. : October 21. Mrs Gordon Bail ie was founi'guiity of the charges brought-against her,.and sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. Her husband, Percival Frost, Was also convicted and sentenced to eighteen months. It came out during the trial of Percival Frost that his [bother-in-law is in possession of an income of £3OOO a year. , f ‘ October 25. Thirty thousand Yorkshire miners have gone .jut on strike. They demand higher wages, The Berlin correspondent of the Daily New slates that Germany has suggested to the Porte to accept the appointment of Prince Ferdinand to the Bulgarian throne. He adds that the Italian and Austrian Governments concur in the suggest ion. lX The Dube of Westminster 'has .been appointed Lord Lieutenant-, of the new County of London. October 26. Mackill, who was arrester) on suspicion of having : murdered the man King on the Midland Railway some time ago, has been acquitted. Mr Pritchard Morgan has been elected for the Merthyr Tydvil seat, vacant by the death of Mr jdenry Richard. Ho secured a majority of 2200 over his opponent. At a meeting of the New Zealand Land Mortgage and Agency-Company, it was decided to extend the operations of the company in the ißiver Plate district. ‘ October 27. It is expected that Sir William Jervois will succeed to the Governorship : bf Queensland, rendered vacant by the death of the late Sir A. Musgrave. The, title to be assumed by the Earl of Dufferin will be Marquis; of Dufferin and Ava, i • October 29. The colliers’ strike has ended, the advance demanded by ihe miners being agreed to by the owners, - " Arrived—rTainui, at Plymouth. The Right Hon; John Bright Las suffered a relapse, i. Plymouth, October 28. Sailed—Rifdutake-. : ’ 1 ' Paris, October;',22. A heavy landslip' ,-,]pn -j.be Brindisi ; Railway .bunedja’n excursion train. , 90 passengers wcrei killed and 50 injured. The -Imperial German-Wma 1 at the German cdnsuliate at* Ha'vre defaced and considerable ill-feeling lias been arroused in consequence of. Ihe act. M. Goblet, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has, however, apologised Ip the German Minister for the outrage, t i October 23, M r Freycinetj Minister of War, has informed the ' Budget Committee' that one milliard francs will be required (for. the defence of the frontier, October 24. - The report of the Budget' Coinmittee States That coalitions abroad have stifled the liberty of Europe, and that for her safe protection France will require more than a milliard of Trane® fpr defensive purposes. ~ ! ( '' 'Q'ciober 27. The slip .on the Naples-Brindisi railway, line show that the [first accounts were ex-, aggented. Nineteen passengers wiera killed, not ninety, as at first reported, and fifty-five were injured. ;

Berlin. October 26 : The interdiction r-f Bir Morell Mac kenzie’s book has been removed. October 27.

It is slated that Prince Bismarck is aiming to restore German prestige in

Z mzibarby means of a .‘united crusade against the slave trade by all the Powers interested in ‘ Africa. It is rumored that a confer; ‘hep oft he Powers has been convened to carry the proposal into effect. St. Petersburg, October 29. A Nihilist- disguised -as ’ a Cossack officer was arrested in the street just as the Czar appeared,. Explosives, were found in his possession, Constantinople; October 25. M. Nelidoff, the Russian Ambassador, has informed -the Wizier that if the Porte recognises Prince Ferdinand, Russia will regard it as a casus belli, : . 'i October 26, The Porte has ratified the Suez Canal Convention. • Rome, October 25. His Holiness the Pope , condemns the insults levelled at the Church by the Italian Government, and their usurpation of the city of Rome, which he declares is predes'ined to be’the,capital of the Roman Catholic world, October 26, ■ Prance has abandoned the intention of inspecting the Italian, schod's 'in Tunis, Belgrade, Oe'nber 24. Archbishop Theodosius, Metropolitan Archbishop of Servia, only annulled the royal marriage under pressure from King Milan, Queen Natalie repudiates the legality of the divorce. Octf b u r 27. King Milan has proposed radical reforms in the constitution, the chief of which ie free election. Calcutta, October 27. Information has been received that the Akrzais have submitted to BrigadierGeneral M'Quoen, but the operations of the British force against other branches of the Hazari tribe will be continued. Lieutenan'-Colonel Cruicksbank, of the Bengal Staff Corps, who was wounded in an engagement with the Akrzais on Oct. 7, has. since succumbed to his wounds, Brigadier-General M'Queen’s column occupied Teund wi'hout opposition, Cairo, October 24. News has been received to the effect that the “White Pasha” is driving the Dervishes northwards, Washington, October 21.; Congress was prorogued 10-day. A measure has been passed exeluding all Chinese labourers from the States whether merely intending to pass through the country or otherwise. New York, October 27-

The, Canadian and Pacific Rai way Company have posted a stronglymanned and victualled train across the place where the Red River Railway is about to cross the Canadian frontier, Manitoba is supporting the Red River Railway Company, and the authorities have called .oat the militia to quell any disturbance that may occur, AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, October 30Two railway officials named Evans and Lovelock were drowned at Williamptown by a boat capsizing. Sydney, October 29. Obituary.—The Right Hon, William Bede Dailey, P. 0., of kidney disease, aged 55. The miners at West Burwood colliery have struck for an increase of wages to fourteen shillings per day. A man named Oleghorn has been arrested at Broken Hill charged with the murder of Ernest Fielder, whom he slabbed recently. October 30. Most disastrous bush fires are raging in Boorooma, Culnoa, and Dubbo districts, also at Picton and Greenfell. The outlook is very gloomy. ; " " "Sribbanb, vctoßer* 80 i _ ! Intense heat is being experienced in the inland districts of Queensland. Far .west the thermometer in some places is 11S in the shade, . Adelaide, October 29 ; ~ H.M.S. Royalist has been ordered to Samoa. ’ Hobart, October 30. Arrived—Aorangi, at 3 o’clock. She sails at 7 o’clock to-night for New Zealand. She brings .130 passengers for Australia,'and 159 for New Zealand. Launceston, October 30. ’ Arrived—Southern Cross, from New Zealand.