TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1854, 16 February 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, February 12. Lord Sherbrooke is in failing health. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge has expressed himself as strongly opposed to the practice of indictment for libel except in cases where great public questions are involved. February 13. Lord Rosaberry has been elected chairman, and Sir John Lubbock vie.' chairman, of the London County Council. The Bishop of Lincoln has protested against the constiintion of the court which is to try the charges of ritualism against him. The court has adjourned for a month. Five thousand bales of woo! have been saved from the wreck of the Sir W alter Raleigh. The trial of Mr O’Brien on a charge of inciting is now proceeding. Before the Times-Parnoll Commission, James stated that Michell Davitt had borrowed funds subscribed for skirmishing to found the National League. The committee of the Imperial Institute have invested large amounts of (ho funds subscribed for the institute in New South Wales stock.

, Mr Chamberlain bad a great reception at a meeting in Glasgow. In the . course of his address he declared that the adoption of the reform programme which be had advocated at Birmingham would prove the salvation of the Unionist party, Be declared that the Unionist programme included free primary education, extension of the principle of Lord Ashbourne’s Act to England and Scotland, and relief to crofters, ’ Mr A. P. Hensman, of Western Australia, read a paper at the Royal Colonial Institute, advocating that the fullest measure of local self-government should 1 bo granted to bis colony. He expressed the opinion that a single chamber was preferable. Sir G. B, Owen and Sir F. Weld endorsed his views. The former urged the separation of the , northern portion of the co'ony, which > should be formed into a Crown colony and developed by means of Asiatic cheap i labor. i February 14. The proposed Bank of England and [ Australia has been abandoned for the present. Mr Dillon sails for Australia by Ihe s.s. Orient on March Ist, 1 The Earl of Onslow has been elected a Fellow of tho Royal Colonial Instii tute. Truth says that it is reported at the Admiralty that the hull of the Calliope, 1 now on the Australian station, is rotten. Comments are made on the abolition of the Queens head on the new stamps issued by New South Wales in commemoration of the colony’s centenary. Six arrests have been made in connection with the murder of Inspector Martin during the riot at Gweedore, Paris, February 12. i Since the failure of the Panama Canal Company M, De Leseeps has greatly aged, the shock having had a serious effect on his health. February 14. The Senate have voted the restoration of the scrutin d'arrondissement by a large majority, Berlin, February 12. Eight laborers on the railway line, near Saxony, were run over and killed by a .train. February 13. Tho Defence Department have adopted the Austrian .Mannlicher repeating rifle. St, Petersburg, February 12. Count Tolstoi’s reforms place the Zemstvos (or district or provincial assemblies) now elected by the peasantry and other landed proprietors under control of provincial nobility. Vienna, February 14. M. Tisza, the Hungarian Premier, has effected a compromise over the Army Bill, The president of the Austrian Export Society states that the experience of Austrian traders, who sent goods to the Melbourne Exhibition was very unsatisfactory. Foreign exhibitors were involved in loss owing to their being prevented from retailing goods. He also states that it is feared that a commercial and financial crisis is impending in Australia. Buda-PbstH, Ferbuary 13. Riotous opposition to the Army Bill t still continues. Rome, February 13. The Vatican is irritated at the refusal of the English Government to renew diplomatic relations. It is stated that Irish influence is now in tho ascendant, and may be largely attributed to (be visit of Cardinal Moran. Ottawa, February 14. Mr Moody, of tho Canadian-Pacific Raihvay, thinks it probable that Canada will agree to a conference being hold in Australia. The establishment of a line of steamships will be dependent on a subsidy being granted by Great Britain to the Atlantic line. The terminus is certain to ho Brisbane, with a branch to Fiji and Now Zealand. Ho considers a direct line to New Zealand impossible. (