TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1832, 22 December 1888, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, December 18. Sir W, Pearce, M.P., member of the shipbuilding firm of Jas. Elder and Co., is dead, Sir J. Fergusson, in reply to a question by Mr McArthur. stated Mie Government hoped to be able to obtain compensation for traders who had incurred losses through the troubles in Samoa. The Washington conference had done nothing inconsistent with the statement made by the delegate at the recent Imperial Conference, Mr P. A, Cbanning, member for Northamptonshire East, in Committee of Supply, moved x a reduction of £ISOO upon the salary of Sir F. Napier Broome, Governor of Western Australia. tie I 'contended that the Governor was unfit for his duties, by reason ol his temper and reckless and arbitrary usn of the powers entrusted to him. Mr Bradlaugh protested against Governor Broome's treatment of Mr Hensmw, proprietor of the West Australian newspaper. Baron De Worms replied that the Government cou'd not take notice of ex parte statements. There was no doubt Judge Onslow's conduct had teen indiscreet, The vote passed without alteration, December 19. Lord Brooke, Conservative, was returned for Colchester by a majority of 436 over the Homn Rule candidate. The military estimates were considered in the House of Commons to-day. Mr Jno. Morley moved, a reduction in Ce Suakim vote. Mr Gladstone supported the amendment and Lord Randolph Churchill made a furious attack cu the Government, and said that he w*B prepared to move a vote of censure at an opportune time, The estimates eventually passed without reduction by a majority of ninety, At the general meeting of the New Zealand Shipping Company today the report was adopted, and the retiring directors re-elected.

At the .Royal Statistical Society this evening, Mr Giffen, a statistician, oV livered a lecture in which he said he expected a troublesome time for the colonies. The wealth of Australia, he considered, must increase enormous y to enable her to bear the present debts. In the House of Commons, referring to the Chinese question Sir James Fergusson said that Sir John Walsham, British Ambassador at Pekin, was parleying with the Chinese Government, and there was every hope of the question being settled amicably. On September 23rd a woman named Beatmoore was murdered at Roxburgh having been stabbed in the abdomen and other places, The man Wm. Wad dell who was arrested and subsequently sentenced to deatb. has now confessed his guilt.

Sir C. Warren has resumed active doty with the Royal Engineers. Sir T. Esmond e and McDeasy, Irish M.P.'e, have sailed for Australia on their lecturing tour. A large steamer belonging to Workington; in Cumberland, foundered in the Solway Firth, and eleven persons were drowned. The statement that Russia has sent a threatening note to the Persian Government is denied. It is further stated that Russia has resolved to avoid all complications in the East. Mr Prout, of Adelaide, has patented a process for copperplating iron.

The Manchester Chamber of Comrcerce have bad under consideration the question of taxing imported goods, and it was resolved that imported similar to those-produced and sold in the United Kingdom ought to pay a proportion of the 1 Ideal and Imperial taxation. Mr Gladstone started to-day for Naples where he will Bpend the winter, In the House of Commons the Liability of Trustees Bill, was read a third time. The clause"providing for the investment of funds by a trustee in colonial stocks was omitted. Truth states that Bishop Pearson is hopelessly insane, December 20. The Native footballers played a game at Llahellyn, Carmarthenshire, to-day, and were defeated by a goal to nothing. Paris, December 20. In the Chamber of Deputies to-d»y ¥, Lecour, representative for the Loire Inferieure, made a brilliant attack on the Government for creatiug Boolangerism. M. Floquet replied that the j Government WBS watching the mancenvresin the direction of a dictatorship, and if necessary would resort to arms to suppress them. St. Petersburg, December 18. £700,000 in gold for Russia arrives on Thursday. December 20. Russia has ordered the, construction of two cruisers of 6000 lons each and one of 9000 tons, Vienna, December 20. The Government have under the anarchist law suspended trial by jury in > fifteen districts,

Belgrade', Dumber 19. In the Servian elections the radicals are gaining enormously, and in consequence Government will resign. Calcutta, December 19. ' Information received ;'from Burmah states that the Shan tribes have attacked the British expedition at Arakau. During the engagement forty were billed and wounded, British reinforcements are being sent to Avie. ; Port-au-Princk, December 19. The American war vessels; which were despatched to demand the release of the American Bteamer detained by f the Government of Hayti have commenced' bombarding Cape Haytien, The native residents fled to the mountains.. New York, December 18. Information has. been received of a ( serious conflict between the whites and | negroes at Waharak, a small itown in Mississippi. The dispute arosejover tbe attempted rescue of a negro who had been arrested, snd in the struggle 12 whites and 100 negroeg were wounded. The whites succeeded in driving their opponents into a swamp, but further fighting is expected to take place. [lt is Baid that this report is exaggerated]. O'Cennor will challenge Se;arle to a sculling match for £IOOO a 6ide, to be rowed either at San Francisco or on the Thames, as he objects to row in Australia, fearing the effect of the climiite on his health. • December 20. Messrs Booth, Jefferson, Berinet, and Dion Boucicault, have joined an Atunican movement for the expulsion of foreign actors from America, in the same WBy as foreign laborers; are expelled. I

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, December 19

Steps are being taken to secure the exhibition orchestra as a permanent institution at an annual cost of £15,000. Sailed—Manapouri for the Bluff. Sydney, December 19.

Arrived—Pukaki, from the Bluff. ' Heavy raiu fell again to-day, and reports from country district are more hopeful except in the Western district, December 20.

Two policemen named Bliss and Devine were drowned in the harbor yestbrday by a boat capsizing. Mr Spreckles has agreed that if the ban on his- vessels is' removed he will undertake to employ only Europeans. The Maritime Council Has assented to these proposals, I Searle, the champion sculler, states that he has no objection to row O'Connor, but he is determined not j to leave Australia at present, preferring 1 to moet O'Connor on the Parramatta. \ Sailed—Kotomabana for Auckland.

The Rev. Mr Brown, who ;was delegated to proceed to Tonga to endeavour to'unite the Weßleyan Free Churches at Tonga, has returned. The result of his inquiries will not be made known uu il the Church authorities have had an opportunity of considering thorn/ Sine? the Diamond visited Tonga tln-re ha 6 been no active persecution of (the Wesleynn missirn»ries, but Mr Brniwn states that the WVsleyans suffer many disabilities and wrongs. The two Churches are'now working-side by sidpj and Mr Brown is of opinion that the interests of Tonga demand 6ome organic union. Adelaide, Decnmber 19. Heavy rains have fallen along the line of the Broken Hills railway, vjhich will be of immense benefit to the pastoral industry. j Hobart, December 19. The first stage of the grand champion rifle match was won by Reid of Tasmania with a score of 63. Macartbyj of Dunedin takes a prize, with 60. The second stage was won by Lawson, ofj Victoria, with 65, Macarthy again taking a prize, with 56. ! December 20. The Champion Rifle Match was won by Captain Hunt, with a score! of 201.