TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1843, 22 January 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, January 18, Intelligence is received from Singapore that the steamer Ghayapeket sprang a leak and commenced to settle down, ultimately foundering, and forty of the crew were drowned. At Warrington, Lancashire, the Maori football team defeated the local club by two goals and a try to a try. The death is announced of Lupton Bey, of Khartoum celebrity. lima De Mursfca, vocalist,, died yesterday at Munich, in great poverty. Her daughter committed suicide' immediately after the death of her mother. Her mind was unhinged by grief. The Rev. C, Spurgeon, who was severely injured recently by falling down stairs, is recovering. It is reported that the Marquis of Hartington has purchased the Manchester Examiner and Times and that these papers will be used as the mouthpiece of the Union party. Arrived Norman McLeod;* barque, from Lyttelton (Oct. sth). 1 The Colonial Office is arranging for ' the purchase of the stern wheel steamer i built for the Nile exhibition for use in the New Guinea rivers. i The election for the vacancy of the I Govan Division seat, rendered necessary ' by the death of Fir 'William Pearce, was taken to-day, when Mr Wilson, Home 1 Ruler, defeated Sir J. Pender by 1071 1 votes. 1 January 19. The elections under the County Ooun- ' cils Act created little interest. The re- 1 turns show that most of the members 1 of the Metropolitan Board of Works i were rejected. Sir John Lubbock and i Lord Rosebery were at the head of the poll. The latest information from Rangoon ( states that the Chinese Government are I endeavoring to arrange a compromise : with the Tibetans, The Otago Quartz Mining Company with a capital of £IOO,OOO is announced. A serious explosion has taken place in the Hyde colliery at Manchester, and it is reported that thirty persons have been killed, i January 20. 1 A British Co - operative Colonising Association, with a capital of £IOO,OOO has been registered, with Mr W. L. Rees as manager. The Native footballers met Yorkshire to-day, when they were defeated by 5 goals and I try to 1 goal and 1 try, Paris, January 18. The French Government are increasing the navy by the addition of four ironclads. Antwerp, January 18. On Tuesday last two aeronauts ascended in a balloon with the intention of making a passage to England. Since then nothing has been heard of them, and it is feared that the balloon has fallen into the water and that the aeronauts have been drowned. 1 Berlin, January 17. With a view to justifying the prosecution against Professor Geffeken, the Emperor William has commanded the publication of the indictment. It is reported that Prince Bismarck has expressed the opinion that the diary of Emperor was exploited and the facts distorted by foes of the Empire and of himself personally. He also asserts that the proclamation of Emperor Frederick, issued on his accession to the throne, was written by Professor Geffeken in 1885, when the Emperor William was supposed to be in a critical condition, Dr Friedburg, Prussian Minister of Justice, has resigned in consequence of the Geffeken prosecution. Rome, January 18. Mr Gladstone, who is spending the winter in Italy, has requested andiences with His Holiness the Pope and King Humbert, Rio Janeiro, January 17. The R.M.B. Rimutaka arrived to-day, all well, and her cargo of frozen meat in good condition. Buenos Ayres, January 16, > The National Congress of the Argentine Republic, have passed a bill guaranteeing the payment o£ a bonus at I,bo rote of 5 per cent for ten years on tho capital invested in factories employed in preserving and exporting beef. Tho capital thus invested amounts to ten million dollars. Washington, January 19. The Senate have adopted an amendment to the Tariff Bill providing for the payment of a bounty of one cent per lb for sugar made from sorghum cane grown in the States. . - ■■ •""* AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, January 18. Arrived— Manapouri from the Bluff yesterday, January 20. Typhoid fever ia raging in the city, and a hundred cases are reported to the health officer doily. Sydney, January 18. ’ Mr Twopeny, executive commissioner for the Dunedin Exhibition, has visited

New South Wales in the interests of the exhibition at Dunedin, He has now left for Melbourne. The proclamation dissolving Parliament will be gazetted on Monday, Writs will bo issue’d on Wednesday and made returnable in 35 days. Unless rain falls immediately thousands of head of stock will perish in the Warialda district. Brisbane, January 16. Distressing accounts are coming to hand from the Darling Downs, and in the interior to the South West crops are stated to be dying off and the water is disappearing. Thejheat is excessive.