TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1864, 12 March 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, March 6. Miss Muir, an actress who is a daughter of a New Zealand squatter, was delected in attempting to enlist her services in male attire. She was arrested, but at the request of her friends was discharged from custody. The news that Stanley has safely reached the Aruwhini river is confirmed, March 7. Dr Tanner, member for Mid Cork, has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for making seditions speeches. Great excitement was caused when it was learnt that M, Kocbereau, manager of the Comptoir d’Escompte de Paris bad committed suicide. A run was at once mads on the bank, but the excitement quickly subsided, Messrs Rothschild and others supporting (be institution. In the House of Commons the Address in Reply to the speech from the throne has been adopted. March 8.

A plan baa been submitted to the naval authorities for the construction of 70 warships, aggregating a tonnage of 818,000 tons, at a cost of twenty-one and a half millions. It is proposed to build eight battleships of 14,000 tons each, two of 9000 tons, nine largo and 33 smaller cruisers, and 18 torpedo gunboats, Two of these vessels are to be on (be stocks within a year, and the whole are to be completed by April, 1894, Mr Goschen in laying the proposals before the Honse of Commons explained that of the total cost eleven and a half millions would be included in the ordinary naval votes for the next five years, and ten millions would be raised by additional taxation spread over 7 years. The debate was adjourned for a fortnight,

Jarrow beat the Maori football team by one goal to nil. The Right Hon. E. Stanhope, in submitting the army estimates to the House of Commons, said that they were increased by £600,000, chiefly owing to the purchase of new magazine rifles for the army. He also stated that the force had been increased by 2,600. He objected to strengthening the colonial garrisons or coaling stations, A syndicate has been formed to work Judellsnrger’s wool-scouring patent.

The case of the Times before the Commission is being brought to a close.

Twenty-one persons, arrested for complicity in the murder of Inspector Martin, at Gweedore, have been discharged. Fourteen others, including Father McFadden, are now being tried on the charge, News has been received of the wreck of the ironclad Sultan, 19 guns, 8720 tons, one of (be Mediterranean squadron, at Malta, The officers and crew were landed in safety, and there is & prospect of saving the vessel, March 9. At a meeting of the Eighty Club Earl Spencer said that he believed that at the right time Mr Gladstone would be prepared to submit a po'icy giving Ireland self-government. He said that the slanders on Mr Parnell were unexampled, and bad been borne with dignity and patience. He charged Government with complicity. Lord Eosebery endorsed these views, and said tbat Mr Parnell bad been grandly received. The destiny of Ireland, he thought, was indissolubly intwiued with that of England, He refrained from making any reference to the Commission. Severe floods in the West of Blngland have been experienced. Bristol and Exeter were inundated. Kail way bridges were demolished. The Standard states tbat the copper bubble has burst. Paris, March 7. Ten thousand weavers have struck at Armentierea, a town in the north-east of France, and are attacking the troops who have been sent there to restore order, March 8.

Her Majesty Queen Victoria has arrived at Biarritz. The weavers strike has ended. The French Government has officially refused to give any support to the Panama Canal.

The Cabinet has decided to repeal the order proclaiming the Hue d’Auraalo an exile.

The suicide of M. Rocheran, manager of the Oomptoir d’JSscompte de Paris, is attributed to the threatened collapse of the copper'syndicate, of which he was the principal financier. Thousands of depos’tors besieged the Oomptoir. Two millions sterling were withdrawn. Other banks are assisting the institution, March 9. In connection with Oomptoir d’Escompte the whole assets have been given as security to the Bank of France, besides the associated banker’s guarantee of 20,000,000 francs. The crisis affected Reuter's shares. It is believed that the Oomptoir is deeply involved. The excitement over |be syndicate has been allayed,

St. Petersburg, March 6.' M, Passit, the Russian Minister of Railways, and M, Saint Jervcl, Inspector of Railways, have both been indicted for complicity in the accident which befel the royal train at Borki in October last. March 8. The Russian Press is exultant at the abdication of King Milan of Servia, Russia has obtained the conversion of a loan of 700,000,000 francs. Vienna, March 7. The announcement that King Milan of Servia bad abdicated in favor of bis son, and that M, Listics, the Libera! leader, was one of the appointed regents, is received here with displeasure, as it is feared that the Russo- of the latter will cause trouble, March S.

The uneasy feeling resulting from the situation in Serria is increasing. Home, March 9. Signor Baccarini having declined to undertake the formation of a new Ministry, the Cabinet constructed by Signor Crispi and submitted to King Uumlert has been accepted, Belgrade, March 8. Ex-King Milan’s son will assume the title of Alexander I. The ex-Queen Natalie will return to Servia, The political situation is unchanged, A Radical Cabinet has been formed. Suakim, March 9. The Abyssinians ore besieging the dervishes at Kassala, and Osman Digna I is advancing to their relief. El Senoussi' is marching on Khartoum, and the Mahdi is much alarmed at bis rival’s advance.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, March 8.

The barquentine Nellie Slade, which arrived from Boston to-day, had a remarkably escape from foundering on the voyage. During a dead calm a huge waterspout struck the vessel and overwhelmed her in a deluge of water. The foremast, maintopmast, and jibboora, were carried away, but the barquentine succeeded in making the Bermudas, and there effected repairs. March 9. Sir Henry Loch has sailed for England, and Sir William Robinson has been installed as acting-Governor. Sailed—Taupo, s,9i, for .New Zealand. March 10, A fatal fire occurred at Mount Moorooplye, Creswicb, to-day. A cottage owned by a man named South was burnt. A step-daughter of his, aged 22, bravely rescued three children, but in attempting to save another both perished. Sydney, March 8. Soiled—Wairarapa for Auckland, Arrived—Alameda from San Francisco, via Auckland, The Gull, an Auckland built vessel, has been wrecked at Mallies Island. The crew reached shore safely. A woman named DeLawrie, arrested on a charge of systematic baby farming, has been convicted and sentenced to five years’ hard labor. A jockey named Tierney was thrown from his horse and killed instamly at Orange races. March 9. The Rev. Mr Boyce, Wesleyan Minister, aged 84, is dead. He visited New Zealand 40 years ago in connection with the organisation of the Wesleyan Church, when he walked oyerland from Auckland to Wellington, Government hare cabled Home stating that the deficit is the same as when the previous Parbes Government took office, Newcastle, March 9.

At the annual demonstration of Newcastle miners, it was stated that £20,000 was lost daring the strike.