TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1860, 2 March 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, February 26

In the House of Commons Sir John Lubbock, member for London University, has introduced a Bill to establish a weekly half-holiday. Thirty persons have been arrested for being concerned in the riots that took place at Gweedore on the arrest of Father McFadden, and during which Inspector Martin of the police force was killed.

, The Empress Frederick left for Berlin to-day. Tha Times ridicules Mr Gladstone's statement with regard to evictions at Qawarden,

February 27.

The statement that Prince Alexander of Baltenburg was morganalically married to an opera singer is confirmed. Mr Jabez Spencer, a Gladstonian Liberal, has been returned unopposed for the Burnby seat in Parliament vacated by Mr John Slagg, Ihe Maori football team played a match at Leigh, Lancashire, and were defeated by 1 goal and J try to 1 try. February 28.

The Marquis of Hartington, speaking at Norwich, urged that prisoners convicted of political offences should receive different treatment from ordinary criminals.

In the action brought in Ireland by Mr Parnell bgainst the Times, the defendants are opposing the jurisdiction of the Dublin Court,

The Marquis of Salisbury, addrssing the London Chamber of Commerce, said that there was a rapid revival of trade throughout the United Kingdom. At a meeting of the New Zealand Mortgage and Investment Association, Limited,the Hon. N.DeUigle Grosvenor presided. In his speech the chairman said that the losses were owing to depression in commercial business and also by mismanagement, It was impossible to realise.

Messrs Rothschilds have floated a company with a capital of £250,000 to work the Burmah ruby mines, More than £3,000,000 were applied for within an hour after the time at which it had been announced that applications would be received. The offices of the great financiers were rnsbed by thousands, and several ot the windows were broken, Many persons were injured iu the crush. Paris, February 26.

The Radical members have introduced into the Chamber a- Bill to prevent General Boulanger’s repeated candidacy for various departments.

Berlin, February 26.

A Bill has been introduced in the Reichstag providing for a vote of 25,000,000 marks for increase of the navy. St. Petersburg, February 26. It is reported here that the Ameer of Afghanistan is sending troops to Herat. The Russian Press, in referring to the question, insist that England ought to control the Ameer.

Vienna, February 26,

The representative of the Havas Agency, which collects official Press news in Austria, has been expelled from Vienna for his comments on the death of Prince Rudolph. Pekin, February 26.

The marriage of the Emperor of China was celebrated to-day with great pomp.

New York, February 26

Twenty-six thousand laborers left the canal works at Panama last week, and the works are now almost suspended, Washington, February 26.

President Cleveland has signed a Bill enabling the President to protect the interests of America in the Isthmus of Panama.

February 28, A cartridge factory in Wyoming blew up, and killed eleven girls.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, February 27.

The barque James Darkness reports she met the barque Martina Johanna, bound from New York to Hall, and laden with kerosene, in a sinking condition, The crew were rescued from their perilous position, and the captain set fire to the Martina Johanna to prevent her becoming a derelict and endangering navigation. She blew up in three hours. The chemicals in the drying-room of a hat factory at Richmond exploded, wrecking the building and seriously injuring two employee. February 28. The Rev. Drs. Lind, of Belfast, McGregor, of Edinburgh, and Fraser, of Loudon, will attend the forthcoming Presbyterian Jubilee in this city. Four young men named Meredith, Batty, Wren, and Minague, have been sentenced to death for criminal assault on a woman at Sludley Park, on the outskirts of the city. An epidemic of typhoid is spreading in some districts, and at Balranald station, 454 miiies S.W. of Sydney, onetenth of the bauds arc prostrated with the disease.

Sydney, February 27. The new cable from Java to Roebuck Bay has been successfully laid, and the first cable was received across it this afternoon, February 28. Sailed—Waihoift, for Auckland. Adelaide, February, 27. During a storm at Endunda, sixty miles north of this city, two children, named Brooks, were killed by lightning, Hobart, February 27. Tho loss of the steamer Southern Cross is attributed to the neglect of the coastal lights, they being clearly visible, and not, as alleged, obscured by smoko from bush fires, It is stated the crew got drunk after the accident, otherwise passengers’ luggage would have been saved.