TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1856, 21 February 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, February 14. Arrived—Ship Opawa, from Oamaru (Nor. 20th) ; ship River Indus, from Lyttelton (Oct. 27j; barque Cairnsmore, from Timaru (Oct, 17); barque Inch Keitb, from Timaru (Nov. 8) ; ship Pleione, from Wellington (Nov. 14). The Copper Bank projected by Messrs Matheson has collapsed, Mrs Georgina Weldon has sued the society paper Men and Women for libel, claiming £3500 damages, Judgment was postponed. In their match against England yesterday the Maori footballers were opposed to a powerful team and were defeated by a goal and four tries to nil, Nino thousand persons witnessed the match, The application for a mandamus to quash the eviction of Mr O'Brien was refused. February 18. The Yen. R.JW. Watkin, D.D., Archdeacon of Durham, having declined the Bishopric of St. Asaph, the Rev, Mr Edwards, Vicar of Oaermarthen, has been appointed, The Times in commenting on the White Book just issued by Germany says it shows that Prince Bismarck’s constant aim was to restrain the excessive zeal of agents in the Pacific. S. D. Mutlebury, winner of the Colquohoun Sculls, and who it is said would be unable to row again this season owing I to an accident, has again gone into training.

It is proposed In raise £12,000 to free Cardinal Manning’s Cathedral irotn debt on the occasion of the jubilee episcopal ordaining. Ninety colonies will be asked to assist.

Mr Gladstone is at present sojonrning at Cannes.

Arrived—Barque Clan McLeod, from Lyttelton (Nov. 1) ; ship Wairoa, from Auckland (Nov. 25); s.s. Fifeshirs, from Port Chalmers (Dec. 31), Seven hundred and sixty seven thousand eight hundred pounds of the South Australian loan has been subscribed ; the remainder is withdrawn.

It is reported that the Government propose to introduce a defence loan of £100,000,000, with which to build twenty-two ironclads and fifty cruisers, the whole to be completed before 1895; also to substitute both at home and abroad the latest patterns of guns instead of those how in use.

The Maori footballers played a team of the London Welsh Club to-day, and won by 2 tries to I try. It is rumored at Congo that Stanley was killed in an engagement with natives at Nangamba. Lord Onslow will ho invested with the Order of Knight Grand Cross of St, Michael and St. George by Her Majesty the Queen, at Windsor to-day. The Marquis of Aylesbury has instituted proceedings in the divorce court against his wife. Mr Chamberlain addressed a meeting at St, Andrews, in Fifeshire, to-day. In the course of his speech he appealed to the leading Liberals to outline the details of Home Rule, as it was useless inviting Mr Gladstone to do so. Professor Johnston, of St, Johns, Oxford University, has been drowned, owing to the capsizing of a punt. The sculling race between Bubear and Norwell took place to-day, on the river Tyne, when the former won by half a length after an exciting race. Madrid, February 18. The Spanish Government have issued a proclamation restricting the landing of foreigners at the Phillipino Islands. Paris, February 18. It is expected that work at the Panama Canal will be suspended in March, owing to lack of funds. Berlin, February 18. Captain Wiseman, who has sailed on a special mission to the Zanzibar coast, is enlisting Egyptians for service there under the German flag. Ihe Emperor William and the Czar of Russia have arranged a meeting at Kiel in June next. Yienna, February 17. M. Tisza is making certain amendments in the Army Bill. Buda-Pesth, February 18. The Emperor Francis Joseph will pay a visit to the Emperor William of Germany in May next. .< A meeting, attended by thirty thousand, was held in this city, and passed a resolution protesting against the provisions of the Army Bill now before the Hungarian Parliament. Over a hundred thousand of the populace assembled at the Emperor’s palace and cheered the Kaiser with great enthusiasm on his arrival, at the name time crying, “ Down with the Premier.” Cabul, February 18. Many thousands of Usbegs, fearing the vengeance of the Ameer, have entered Bokhara and taken up their allotted lands. New York, February 18. Information has been received that by a boiler explosion in the Park Centrrl Hotel, Hertford, fifty of the inmates were killed, many being burnt alive.