TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1837, 5 January 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, January 1, Arrived—Helena. A return just published shows the "nominal capital of the principal companies established during the year at eighty-nine millions. The revenue for the year of Great ' Britain was £90,173,000. A theatre has been destroyed by fire at Kircaldy, Fife, but no fatalities are reported. The Maori football team were beaten at Bradford by a goal and a try to a try. Piften thousand people watched the match and the greatest interest Was taken in it. Gas made from water by the Leeds Forge Company, saves £IO,OOO yearly at their works, It is produced at a cost of under 4d per 1000 feet. January 2. The Earl of Aberdeen, speaking on the subject of the appointment of Colonial Governors, said he considered the action of Queensland was a temperate assertion of her rights. Mr Matthews, Home Secretary, refused to reprieve the the lads who brutally murdered an overseer at Tunbridge Wells and they were executed, being repentant at the last. Three thousand pounds’ worth of jewellery has been stolen by burglars from the bouse of the Austrian ambassador in London. Mr Ruskin is ill, and much anxiety is felt on his account. The Pall Mall Gazette says that the Queen recently, sent a present of £25 to Miss Wiedmann, plaintiff in the breach of promise action against the heir to the Earldoth of Oxford. The prevalence of fogs has caused a number of railway and shipping fatalities. The Primrose League is stated to now number eight hundred thousand members, and its ranks are stall increasing. The English Government view the visit of Mr Gladstone to the Vatican with disfavor. The Standard states that the copper syndicate control 150,000 to(ns, which have absorbed twelve millions of capital. The interest on this amounts to something like half a million per anmum, and stocks are still growing, as imports from Chili, America, and Australia are increasing. The Standard is of opinion that a crisis is imminent. Truth asserts that the Earl of Kintore was appointed to the Governorship of Sooth Australia because the captaincy of the Yeoman of the Guard 5s to be abolished to facilitate royal economy. The name of the Bradford vi ctim was Gill, which gave rise to the supposition that the child was a girl. At the inquest the police are endeavoring to prove that the accused (Burnett) and the boy were delivering milk when tho former decoyed him into the stables and there committed the crime. January 3. The Daily News states that the liabilities of David Clarkson are estimated at £IBO,OOO. Sir W. W, Gull, the well-known physician, is recovering from an illness. It is probable that negotiations will be renewed for the union of the Free and the United Churches of Scotland; Mr Westgarth reads papers on Australian finance at. the meeting, of the Colonial Institute on February 2;nd. General Bligb, New Zealand cam-i paigner, is dead. Mr Gladstone intends to visit the Pope as an act of politeness. PARIS'., January 1. The election for the Department of the Seine has been fixed for the 27th l inst. General Boulanger is confident j that he will be returned by an enormous majority. It is reported that the struggling peasants and small landed proprietors ot France are generally in » distressed condition, and that soma have stated they Would gladly exchange their lot with that of first class convicts inc New Caledonia, Rome, January 1. The Pope in an Encyclical letter just published, says the only cure for the evils prevailing in society is a return of the nations into the fold of the Church. His Holiness also, in the course of the letter, utters a solemn warning to certain nations, which, he says, will have to pay the penalty for their sins. St. Petersburg, January 2.^ The mental depression of the Czarina is increasing. It has been discovered that the recent accident to the train containing the Imperial family whereby some twenty lives were lost, was the result of » deliberate plot concocted by dismissed railway officials and Nihilists. Many arrests have been made. Mandalay, January 1.

The prisoners in one of the gaols mutinied. The disturbance was quelled by the guard, hut not before mutineers had been killed, ■Washington, January 1. The authorities of St, Louis, Missouri, have nrohibitod the boxing exhibitions by Kilrsin and Mitchell.

January 2. A man named Schoolpo, of Philadelphia, has confessed that enraged at the gluttony of a boarder, he murdered him, The dissected limbs have been found, AUSTRALIAN CABLE.Melbourne, January 2. Sailed—-Triton, for Timaru, It is proposed to expend £IBB,OOO to support a defence force of 12,000 men. Terrible gales swept the east end of Solomon Island group at the end of November, destroying plantations and houses in all directions. The Sydney schooner Lizzie was caught in the gale and dismasted. She had a narrow escape of foundering, and was so much damaged that she was eventually condemned, She was insured in the South British office. The drought has broken up at Silver ton Island. January 3. Sailed—Tarawera, for the Bluff, I As the steamer Qanroto, from Fiji, was coming up Hobson’s Bay in a blinding squall yesterday she collided with the ship King Arthur. The ship was cut down to the water’s edge, but was immediately taken in charge by the Steamer and towed to a place of safety and lightened. The Hauroto sustained no damage from the collision. Sydney, January 2. Arrived—Moraroa, from Auckland. The revenue last year exceeds that of 1887 by upwards of £300,000. < January 8, Sailed- —¥/ akatipu, Newcastle, Januiary 2. Sailed—-Ganymede, for Timaru. Brisbane, January 3. In consequence of the heat, the death rate at Croydon is very heavy, and the life insurance companies are refusing to insure residents of that neighborhood. Adelaide, January 2. Lambert, the driver of the coach which fell over a precipice yesterday, is dead, Hobart, January 2. The revenue for the year has increased by £42,000 over last year’s returns. The barquenline Empress of China, from Geelong to Hobart, was totally wrecked on Pyramid Rock, in a fog on Monday. The crew were saved.