TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1857, 23 February 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, February 18. Henry George will shortly visit Australia. Arrived —Pbjliis, ship, from Lyttelton (Nov. 14th), It would seem that the murder epidemic which prevailed in the latter part of last year in the neighborhood of Whitechupel, and whieh was attributed to " Jack the Ripper," has broken out in the West Indies. The lost victim at Whitecbapel was killed jd November last, and in the following month four negroes prostitutes were killed in Jamaica, Attached to the body of the fourth victim was a paper signed " Jack the Ripper." The murderer appears to have then proceeded to Nicaragua, where, during the month of January, six similar atrocities were committed, Mr T. F. Bayard, United States Secretary of State, advocates proclaiming neutrality over the Suez and Panama canals, and Samoa. Mr Healey, engaged in the defence of O'Brien, charged with inciting, was ejected from the court at Tralee for insulting Colonel Turner, whom he called a sneak. The trial h»s been adjourned in consequence. February 19. The trial of O'Brien, which had beon adjourned owing to the insulting conduct of his counsel, was continued to-day, when the accused was sentenced to a term of six months, the sentence to be partly concurrent, The Maori football team played Cambridge University to-day, and were de. feated by two goals and one try to one goal. Virtually the whole of tho cargo of the wrecked ship Bir Walter Raleigh has been saved. The Crown have declined to prosecute Mrs Georgina Weldon, the well-known litigant, for perjury, The Crown agents offer to convert 6", 5, and per cent Western Australian debentures into inscribed 4 per cents. Bir John George Smyth Kinlock, Bart., a Home Ruler, has been elected to represent the constituency of East Perthshire, tbe vacancy for which was caused by the death of Mr R. S. Menzies. The number pollpd by the successful candidate was 4005, against 2289 for Mr Bruce, the Unionist candidate. It is believed that tbe arrest of Mr J. L. Carey, M.P. for Kildare, which was made at Kinlock House, Meigle, Perthshire, influenced the election adversely for Mr Bruce. February 20. Lord Rosebery, in the course of a speech at Edinburgh, expressed the opinion that tho realisation of a scheme of imperial federation on tho widest scale was not remote, At the annual meeting of the Australian Agricultural and Coal Company, it was stated that the company had lost £16,000 by the Newcastle strike. February 21, It is reported that Morrocco has ceded to Germany a coaling station near Algeria, Paris, February 20. Two thousand five hundred laborers on the Panama Canai works have been discharged. The Hague, February 19. King William has suffered another relapse, Berlin, February 19.

The German Trade Congress has opened. Herr Boltscher stated that the Melbourne Exhibition had opened wider outlets for German manufacturers. The recall of Mr Branders from Samoa 18 confirmed.

St. Petersburg, February 20. The object of General Komoroff's visit to Tchardgin is in connection with thb progress of the Ameer towards the frontier, It is Komoroff's intention to occupy all important points in order to facilitate the dealing of a crushing blow to tho Ameer if he attempts to move further northward. The Czar and Czarina have been entertained by Sir Robert Morrier, British Ambassador to this city. It is rumored that a new Russian loan of three hundred million roubles will be offered.

Russia is spending five million roubles on tho defence of Vladivostok. A famine, caused by the severity of the winter and the scarcity of crops, is raging in Southern Russia. Harrowing .scenes occur daily in the country districts, and children are dying off wholesale, Belgrade, February 20. Ihe statement that the King of Servia's coronation ceremony will take dace in May is denied. Hong-Kong, February 18. A new Chinese president has been appointed to Tibet, Sir William des Yceax, Governor of Hong-Kong, is strongly objecting to the claims of tb* Messageries Maritiraes Co. to have their steamers placed on the same status as warships, on the ground that such a course is calculated to interfere with the operation of law in English I harbors.

Simla, February 21. Gholam Haider Kean, the Com-mander-in-Chief of the Ameer, has been appointed Governor of Afghan Turkestan, Suakim, February 21. The Mahdi has summoned Osman Digna to Khartoum. Ottawa, February 19. The Canadian House of Commons have rejected, by a majority of thirty, a motion to the effect that in future direct treaties should be negotiated with foreign Powers. New York, February 18. : Mrs Friend, promoter of Friend's Electric Sugar Uompany, has been arrested in Michigan. The investigation in January last, proved the process for refining sugar to bemythical, and Mrs FrienJ disappeared from the city upon the detection of the fraud, Washington, February 18. Congress has passed the bill providing for the refund of war taxes to States, by tvhich million dollars | of surplus will be divided among the States. February 21. Mr Bayard, Secretary of State, during the course of an interview, said that in the event of war between Germany and the United States the latter would have to find another Secretary.

President Cleveland has approved of the Nicaragua Canal Bill, and the canal company is now being organised,

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, February 20. Serious irregularities have been disclosed in the two city branches of the London Chartered Bank of Australia. Both managers have been dismissed for speculating in land with money borrowed from customers, and not being able to repay the amounts borrowed they allowed the latter to overdraw to any amount. Sailed—Tarawera, for the Bluff. The Government have under consideration the desirableness of continuing and increasing the English mail service via San Francisco. Correspondence on the question has been opened with the Governments of New South Waless and New Zealand. The election campaign has commenced. Mr Gillies denies that he wishes to act as the mouthpiece of the Australian colonies, and states that he merely replied to tbe communication received from Canada re a conference. He, in return, accuses Mr Dibbs, Premier of New South Wales, of suggesting Sydney as the meeting place before the colonies have decided that it is necessary to hold a conference at all. February 21. Arrived—Yesterday, Te Anau, from tbe Bluff. Sydney, February 20. Sailed—Mail steamer Zealandia for Auckland. February 21. Arrived—Wakatipu from Wellington. The Government have decided that New South Wales shall not he officially represented at the Dunedin Exhibition. The Government have eh-va'ed io the Legislative Council Mr l\ B. Suu.<r, who was Postmaster-General in the Administration of 1881, and fight < th'-ia, including several ca/iJiil-iies at the recent elections and eomo without any Parliamentary experience whatever. Adelaide, Febrnuy 21. 4.t Lake Torrens to-day a trial was made with a boat for which a patent bus just been secured. During the progress of the trial tho boat, which had twenty persons on board, overturned and all were precipitated into the water, Many swam ashore, but a boy named Thomas, a man who has not been identified, and Mr Usher, the patentee, were drowned. Another boy is missing, and it is feared that he, with several others, has been drowned. Brisbane, February 21. The crops in the Darling Downs district are a complete failure owing to the effects of the drought. Hobart, February 20. Arrived at 2 this morning—Tongariro from Plymouth via the Cape. She haß 16 passengers for Australia, 66 for New Zealand ports. She left again for New Zealand at 2 this afternoon.