TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1823, 1 December 1888, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, November 27. The statement that, the second bat. talion of the East Yorkshire Regiment had been ordered to Snakim is denied.

The Russian 4 per cent loan of twenty million sterling has been issued. The British Ambassador at Washington has sailed for New Y Q,i k.

As a mark of .Her Majesty’s sympathy with Sir Charles Warren, he has been offered a command at Aldershot.

The Island Block Goldminiog Company of Otago is now alloting shares.

The Agents-Qeneral have interviewed Lord Knutsford urging him to reinstate, in the Liability cf Trustees Bill, the clause allowing trustees to invest funds in colonial inscribed stocks, which was struck out by the House of Lords last session. November 28. The second battalion of .the Scottish Borderers has been ordered .to proceed to Suakim. In the House of Commons to-day, Baron Do Worms denied that Lord Knutsford and the Marquis of Lothian had approved of Mr L. Rees’ colonisation scheme. He added that the New Zealand Government had sent a cable to the Imperial Government to the effect that the figures mentioned in Mr Bees’ proposal were entirely misleading. The convocation of Oxford | University have admitted the Dnivereityj of SyJney ( to the privilege of a colonial university. ' The Oaths Bill has passed through committee in the House of Lords without amendment.

A railway signalman, living in a village in Staffordshire, in a fit of insani'y murdered his wife and two children. After hacking their bodies about in a fearful manner, pe cut his own throat, but is still alive, ' The Queen and Dowager Empress Victoria have given orders that they shall be furnished daily witji bulletins regarding the condition of Mr Bright’s health. 1 November 29. Her: Majesty the Queen paid a special visit to London, to condole with the relatives o£ the Duchess of Sutherland. Panama canal shares have fallen owing to failure in floating the balance of the lottery loan. It is expected in consequence that the company will be unable to pay interest on its bonds. The condition of Mr Jobh Bright is now more hopeful. Paris. November 28 .■ General Boulanger has not opposed the divorce action instituted by his wife, as be is desirous of marrying Madame Hermit; The friends of General Boulanger? wish to prevent the scandal for political reasons, as they fear it will injure his leadership of the Boulanger party. When M. Wilson entered the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday he was shunned by the members of the Republican party. Burns, November 29.

M. F, Herlenstein, of Zurich, President of the Swiss Republic, met with an accident which necessitated the amputation of bis leg, but the sufferer succumbed under the operation. Roue, November 26.

The Moniteur asserts that the Pope will probably solve the difficulty between the civil and ecclesiastical authorities by leaving Rom«. Vienna, November 27.

The Neuve’ Free Presse, one of the leading political newspapers, predicts an early civil war in France. Belgrade, November 27. The Radicals have secured', a majority of forty in the Grand Skupstina. St„ Petersburg, November 28..

. It is reported that the new Russian loan will bo applied to increasing the Black Sea fleet.

Ihe Czarina is suffering from melancholia; which is mainly attributed to the recent accident to the royal train on the railway. Her Majesty wishes to leave Russia, and it is believed that if she remains her mind will beco,me permanently affected. It is feared that the accident has also had a depressing effect on the Czar, Zanzibar, November 27.

The Bultan is unwilling toj consent to the blockading of the coast, as proposed by England and Germany.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, November 28. Sailed yesterday Rotomahana, for Bluff.

The lighthouse at Point Lonsdale has been struck by lightning and extonsively damaged. November 29. Arrived—Te Anau, from Bluff, Sydney, November 28. A reservoir of true natural gas has been discovered near Narrabeen, A company has been projected to work it. A steam launch proceeding down the coast foundered, and two men named Trotter and Taylor were drowned. The annual meeting of the South Pacific Petroleum Company has been adjourned for a fortnight pending the

result pf the withdrawal, of the bore now being made', November 29. Sailed—Zealandia, for Auckland. Sailed this morning Waihora tor Wellington. The Legislative Council negatived on the voices a motion brought forward in favour of federation of the Australian colonies, In the House of Assembly, Mr G. R. Dibbs, member for Murrumbidgee, has given notice of motion —** That this House is of opinion that (he Financial Statement should be hdefred back to the Colonial. Treasurer in order that a just statement of thfe financial position of the country may bo laid before Parliament.” The motion will be discussed to-morrow. Port Darwin, November 28. Rich gold has been struck in the Kohinoor claim, Pine Creek, where the reef was hitherto supposed to be barren. It is described as likely to give the largest yieldw yet procured in the Northern Territory,