TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1839, 10 January 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, January 5, The crew of H.M.S, Diamond will be paid off and the vessel sold. The Rev. Mr Spurgeon, writing in the Sword and Trowel, says that the Imperial Parliament cs a time honoured institution is degraded by the acting of obstructionists. The Economist says the Panama Cana! Company is in a hopeless state. A destructive fire broke out in the premises of Messrs Fitters, meat salesmen, Sraithfield. to-day, and before the flames were mastered twelve shops were destroyed. Yory little frozen meat was burnt. January 6. Mr Gladstone, in a letter to the Press, asserts that the seven years' duration of Parliament under the Septennial Act is the only cause which is blocking Homo Rule for Ireland; Mr Westgarth, a financial authority, recommends the issue of the projected Victorian four million loan at 3 per cent. He sla es that it will bring £9O, which is preferable to a 3-| per cent loan, even if the latter bring £IOO, In the course of an interview Lord Hampden (formerly Sir U. Brand) Speaker of the House ot Commons, said Federation was desirable but its accomplishment was remote at Present. Joo thought it would even be dangerous, in view of the somewhat loose relations of the colonies to the Mother Country. The Blake difficulty should act as a warning to sanguine Frderationists. It was imperatively necessary, from the t nature of elements to be dealt with, that Federation should be brought about gradually. It must also be elastic in character and limited to control of Customs, police, and military armngements. What might be possible in Ireland and Scotland might be found intolerable in the colonies. Lord Hampden concluded by saying he thought it would be found impossible to create a uniform tariff. He did not consider the imposition of a protective tariff on British imports by the colonies would be an obstacle to Federation. January 7. The personality of the late Sir W. Pearce has been sworn at under a million ‘ and a quarter. A laborer has been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the murder and mutilation of a girl at Heathbridge, in Somersetshire. The late Lady Brassey’s book on her last voyage (during which she fell ill and died) will be published in February. Lord R, Churchill has purchased the racehorse Idclesleigh for 2000 guineas. The Queen has announced her intention of bequeathing her jubilee presents to the nation. HalJiwell Phillips, Shakesperian scholar, is dead. An accident to the Rev. J. Spurgeon took place at Mentone, France, where he was visiting for the benefit of his health. He accidentally fell downstairs, knocking out two of his teeth, and loosening others. He also received a shock to his system. Forty Bieunan torpedoes are being placed in position for coast defence. Sheerness has been appointed the testing station. Madrid, January 4. By a colliery explosion at Yiedo, in the province of the same name, a large number of lives were lost, Thirty bodies have been recovered already. Paris, January 7. The Republican Congress have selected M. Jaques, a distiller, as the candidate to oppose General Boulanger in the election election for the Department of Seine, General Boulanger has promised his support to the Panama Canal Company, and is largely purchasing the company’s bonds. It is stated that the laborers engaged on the Panama Canal are dissatisfied, a feeling having arisen that there are no funds to carry on with. It is feared that a total suspension of the work is imminent. There is considerable excitement in the cily owing to the Eiffel Tower, which is being erected in the Champa de Mars in connection with the exhibition of 1859. visibly declining consequent on a subsidence of the foundations. [The tower is of iron lattice work (attaining, when complete, a height of 1000 feet), having, according to sketches, a very substantial base area of sunken masonry, The accumulated weight would, however, be enormous], M. De Lesseps has bean offered the chairmanship of the new Panama Company, which is to be formed with a | capital of £20,000,000. President Carnot has refused to subscribe to the new company. Berlin, January 7. Professor Geffken was released on the ground that he was anawure that the publication of the Emperor’s diary was a criminal offence. Ho received a great ovation on Ids return to Hamburg. The Press applaud the cocnge of the Supreme Court in taking the course adopted.

■ Naples, January 7. Mr Gladstone has gone on a visit to Pompeii. Belgrade, January 7. M. Ristics has submitted to King Milan the names of o, Liberal and Russophile Ministry. The King of Servia visits the Riviera, A regency is being appointed. Calcutta, January 7. Aspinwall’s oil yards at Cochin, a seaport of India, were burned, The damage amounts to, £200,000. Ban Jose, January 7. A severe, shock of earthquake has been experienced throughout Costa Rica, and *many persons have been injured. Toronto, January 6. Sir J. Macdonald, Premier of the Dominion of Canada, speaking in this city, ridiculed the idea of annexation to the United States. Washington, January 6. The American Senate is delaying the resolutions warning the Government of France not to meddle with the Panama canal, January 7. A committee of the House of Kepresentatives recommend that there should be increased stringency of the immigration regulations of the United States.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, January 7. The official returns show that the attendance at (he Exhibition up to date numbers 1,430,000. January 8. Members of Parliament gave a banquet last night to JSir H. Parkes, who is at present on a visit to Melbourne. The Intercolonial Medical Congress has opened its session here. The president, Dr Fitzgerald, delivered the annual address, An able paper on Medical Progress wrs read by Professor Stewart, of Sydney. Sydney, Janusry 7. The three-masted schooner Heath has been wrecked near Broken Bay, north of Sydney. Two seamen named Ohlsen and Stevenson were drowned, and others suffered severely from exposure. The schooner Buster, laden with dynamite, which was dismasted and abandoned in a gale off Gabo Island, has been recovered by the steamer sent in search of her. and brought s&fely into port, January 8. The Russian war ship Nayednik sailed for Auckland this afternoon, Heavy rains at Albury have done much damage to the standing crops and to wheat in stook. The estimated loss ia one-third of the actual yield. Louisa Collins, sentenced to death on a charge of poisoning her husband, was executed to-day. A serious bungle was made of the execution. The trap on which the unfortunate woman stood refused to act, and it was quite thirty seconds before the drop took place after the signal had been given. All this time the doomed woman displayed wonderful calmness, and when the drop fell the head was almost severed from the Hunk. Mrs Collins was reserved to the last, and made no confession. It is forty years since a woman was executed in Sydney. Brisbane, January 8 A man named Wielatid has been arrested on a charge of beating his sou to death with a horsewhip. Thursday Island, Jan. 8. News from China states that riots have taken place at Canton through merchants importing machinery for the manufacture of silk. Six persons were killed and many injured. AH hopes of the steamer Vaitarau, which left Cutch for Bombay with nine hundred native passengers on board, have been given up, and she is supposed to have foundered with all hands in a cyclone. Some bard fighting has taken place in Formosa between regulors and three thousand rebels. The latter were repu’Yed with heavy losses on both sides, h. band of pirates at Haiphong has been dispersed and fourteen killed,