TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1863, 9 March 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISB AND FOREIGN.

London, March 5

Mt John Rylands, merchant, whose death was announced on December 11th, has bequeathed £160,000 for charitable purposes.

Velchow, a New Zealander, is organising a combined whaling fleet for the purpose of exploring the Antarctic regions. He hopes to leave with a party of Norwegians for Victoria Land within the year.

In the Bouse of Commons Sir James Pergusson, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, replying to Mr Boward Vincent, M.P. for Sheffield, said the British Government had been requested by the Samoan chiefs to annex Samoa, The Government, however, were compelled to refuse the rfquesr, but had been to effect a satisfactory arrangement which would secure the autonomy of the islands.

Sir John Hall, of New Zealand, speaking at a Farmers' Club on the subject of protection, said that the prospects of farming in England were not hopeful.

The Directors of the Oriental Bank have approved a draft bill to be submitted to Parliament authorising the convertioHof the silver currency capital into sterling. The Duke of Sutherland, who only recently became a widower, has married Mrs Blair, daughter of the Principal of Magdalen College. The Maori footballers played a gßme at Oldham, Lancashire, to-day, and were defeated by a goal and three tries to nil, The Rev. Mr Evans, curate of Poplar parish, Middlesex, has been committed for trial on a charge of abduction. The Hon, Artillery Company of London, the oldest military corps of the Empire, which was suddenly disbanded in December last, on the Prince of Wales aad the Duke of Portland, the captain-general and lieutenant-colonel, respectively, of the corps, throwing up their commissions when members refused to grant £SOO for military purposes, has been reformed under Royal warrant and restored to its former position.

March 6. The Maori football tcora beat Halifax by a goal and three tries to nil. The Australian and New Zealand Mortgage Company has declared a further dividend of 5 per cent, making 1\ per cent for the year, The Queen has started for Biarrilz, a watering place in the West of France. Charles Duval, actor, committed suicide on board the, steamer Oceania while passing through the Red Sea. fhe Rev. Jno. Geo. Wood, the wellknown naturalist, is dead, aged sixtyseven.

The prospectus of the Imperial Colonial Trading Company is jast issued, The capital is a million. Its first issue of half a million, in £lO Bhares, is nearly ready to float, Fhares to the value of £50,000 are reserved for New Zealand.

Viscount Mandeville, son of the Duke of Manchester, has become bankrupt. His liabilities are £IOO,OOO, and his assets nil. The brokers have conceded 2s 6d decrease in freight when loading ships despatched by the shippers' committee, It is stated that a Hamburg firm are quoting freight at £l. J'aris, March 6.

It is reported that thousands of letters compromising Government officials have been seized in the offices of the Patriotic League which has just been suppressed. M, Pasteur has cabled to Sydney urging that the Rabbit Commission should come to a decision upon his proposals. Belgrade, March 5.

King Milan, of Servia, ia indisposed, and political confusion baying arisen, he has abdicated in favor of his son (Prince Alexander, 13 years of age), who bas been proclaimed King, with General Costa Protich, Minister of War, M. Risttics, and M. Belimaroosica, as Regents. King Milan is suffering from a nervous malady. He will shortly leave on a visit to Italy for the benefit of bis health. Vienna, March 6. The Austrian press are protesting against the action of the Russians in tbe Balkan principalities. Ottawa, March 5. The House of Commons, by a majority of forty-three, rejected tlia motion favoring parleying with America to improve trade relations on the basis of unrestricted reciprocity. ,—+ AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, March 6.

The Edith May, which arrived yesterdny from the Islands, reports that the Island of Aneiteum, to the south of the New Hebrides Group, was visited by a great hurricane. The plantations were uestroyed, and the inhabitants ot the island are almost on the verge starvation.

March' '?,'

Margaret Fitzgerald and Mrs'Curtis, her sister, have been arrested on a charge of murder, arising out of a case of coni cealment of the birth of an infant. Both prisoners recently arrived from New Zealand.

Sailed yesterday Rotomabana, for Bluff. Arrived Manapouri, from th's Bluff.

A Chinese camp at Haddon, situated on Smyth's Creek, 110 miles west of Melbourne, and near Ballarat, has been destroyed by fire and one life lost. William Harrison, condemned to death for the murder of John Duggan, at Glenore, near Bendigo, will be executed on the 18tb.

The sentence of death on the four young men, Meredith,!Batty, Wren, and Donogue, sentenced to death, on j!7th February . for cijiminal .assault 'pn a woman at Stud ley Park, ,has^ ( been commuted, The first •named three are tp be imprisoned for twelve years, and to receive two' flaggings. Ihe jast-nimed to seven years, and one flogging. , Sydney, March 6. Sailed-—Earlsconrt, for Timaru. March 7,

A passenger by the Jlockton from Fiji reports, ,that oa the vogage he, was robbed of a portmanteau which contained thirty sovereigns, thirty Napoleons, two hundred pounds' worth of diamonds, and a letter of credit for £IOOO, There is not the slightest clue to the robber. Hobart, March 6.

The largost fire which has occurred for many years broke out last night in Bond'B bark mill, which was burnt to the ground. The damage is estimated at £IO,OOO.