TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1866, 16 March 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

I ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. i London, Mirch 12. In the House of Commons Mr i?tan. hope said it was possible even now to provide coaling stations with substantial mine defences in to days, and in three days they could be put in a state to effect considerable resistance to hostile cruisers. Earl Compton, son of (he Marquis of Northampton, has been elected for the Barnsley division (Yorkshire) iu the House of Commons, which seat was rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr Courtney 8. Kenny, who sat as a Gladstone Liberal. He defeated his opponent, Mr B. C. Vernon Wentwortb, a lory, by a majority of 2551. The American baseballers opened their English tonr at the Oval to-day. The game was witnessed by a large assemblage, which included H.R.H. the Prince of Waleß. March 13. Lord G. F. Hamilton stated in the House of Cummonß that the Admiralty propose to spend £280,000 during the current year on the construction of vessels for the Australian fleet, the expenditure of the remaining £570,000 to be) spread over the three following years, The steamer Benefactor, of Liverpool, ran dowo the ship Plover, of London, off Dungeness, and the latter sank. The Earl of Radnor is dead. Mr Robert Dennis, proprietor of the Court Society Review, sued Mr J. Henniker Heaton, the member for Canterbury, for £SOO. The claim was for writing speeches and articles for the defendant in the National Review, and letters to The Times, and to the Post-master-General, from 1885 to 1888. The plaintiff also claimed for writing the statement by Mr Henniker Heaton before the Colonial Conference on postal matters. The action has been settled out of court, defendant paying £4OO and £2OO costs. Paris, March 13. The Due d'Anmale bus returned to this city, where he was warmly welcomad. ne publicly pxpressea* his gratitude to President Carnot for the permission extended to him to return from exila. Belgrade, March 14. The Servian Government has decided to reduce the standing army by onehalf, Zanzibar, March 11. All the Germane captured recently by the Arabs have been ransomed. Bushire, the rebel leader, is now re. treating from Bagamoyo, where he was wounded in a recent engagement with the Germans, and shows an inclination to parley, Washington, March 13. A proposal to abolish the Canadian Committee has been defeated in the Senate,

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, March IS. The country oat West is getting into a very bad state again through the want of water. Marob 14. The man who was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for personation has made a confession in writing, showing that there was a widespread conspiracy to personate voters at the recent elections. The confession implicates twenty-fonr other peoph\ The Queen's Jubilee Fund has reached £16,000. A Bill will be introduced into Parliament to devote the fond money to the relief of women in distress, and a council of twenty women will be appointed to control the fund. A man named Davies has surrendered himself bo the police at Broken Hill, and confessed that he poisoned a man named 'George 18 months ago. Melbourite, March 18. During an election meeting in North Melbourne Town flail last night a gang of larrikins rushed the place, and during a row that ensued a man named Berger was seriously stabbed in two places. News has been received of the death at Naples of Sir W. F. StaweiJ, formerly Chief Justice of Victoria. Peeth, March 13,

Details as to the damage caused by the cyclone at King Sound., Kimberley district, on the 13th February, flhow that one lugger is missing with three Chinese aboard. Two luggers were drivea ashore dismasted and two becama total wrecks. All hartdß on one of the latter were drowned.