TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1868, 21 March 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, March 17

Mr Parnell has subpceaned Lord Carnarvon and Sir W. V. Harcourt to giye evidence on his behalf before the Commission.

A Northern Coal Syndicate is projected with a capital of one hundred million pounds to control the output of the northern mines.

Mrs Langtry is in precarious health, March 18. Deposits in Irish Banks are largely increasing.

The Channel Squadron has sailed for Tangiers, to support British demands respecting the cable question. Mr L L. Catew, M.P. for North Kildare, who was recently sentenced to four months’ imprisonment, was forcibly stripped on his refusing to wear gaol clothes, and he remained in his cell naked for four days. The manager of a hotel at Bath has obtained £3OOO damages against Mr Arthur Willoughby, a newspaper corres? pendent, who reported that a sensation*! robbery and attempted murder had occurred at the hotel,

Spaldings and Hedge, stationers, bare suspended payment. The liabilities stand at £500,000, and tbe assets are stated at £423,000.

Miss Mary Anderson, the well-known American actress, is in a precarious state of health.

The Blue Spur Company is issniog £IO,OOO worth of debentures at } per cent discount. Mr J. G. Brown, who visited England for the purpose of negotiating the sale of tbe property, is being made the subject of attacks io financial organs. Sir E. B. Malet will represent Great Britain, and Count Herbert Bismarck and Herr Krausel, Germany, at tbe Samoan Conference, Lady Arnold, wife of Sir Edwin Arnold, and the Bev* J. L. Porter, President of the Queer’s College, Belfast, are dead, March 19, Messrs W. O’Brien avnd Harrington, M.Ps., refuse to be released from gaol in order to prepare their defence to tbe charges made against them before The Ximes-Parnel! Commission on the conditions imposed upon them, namely, that they refrain from taking part in political agitation whilst they are free. The Maori footballers defeated the Rochdale Hornets Club by 8 goals and 1 try to nil. The London agents of the French copper syndicate, Societe Des Meteaux, are unable to meet their engagements. Small lots of copper have been sold at £35. When the lists closed yesterday buyers were offering £BB, and sellers were asking £43. The banks have control of the bulk in the markets, and H ip not likely the latter wifi be flooded, Paris, March 17. Queen Victoria, at present sojourning at Biarritz, will meet Queen Maria Christian, ot Spain, at San Sebastian on the 27th inet, Vienna, March 16. The Austrian Government has ordered the Danube Steam Navigation Company to hold itself in readiness to place every available steamer at the disposal of the Government. St, Petersburg, March 18. It is stated here that the Czar has advised ex-Queen Natalie not to return to Servia. Hong-Kong, March 17. A report has reached here from Tientsin that the natives of Kaungsi have massacred a hundred Frenchmen. Cabul, March 17. It is reported, that the Ameer is returning here. Cairo, March 18. It is reported that El Senoussi has defeated the Mahdi. Bio Janeiro, March 18. The yellow fever is raging here. A hundred deaths a:re reported daily,

AUSTRALIAN CABLE, Sydney, March 18r Arrive!] S.S. Te Anau ; Haurodo, from Wellington. The damage by fire at Gibbs, Shallatd and Co.’s is estimated at £IO,OOO. The South British has a risk of £IOOO. All the Ministers have been re-elcctad without opposition, * The Government have decided to grant supplies of seed wheat to farmers in the drought-stricken districts, ' Melbourne, March 18. William Harrison, sentenced to death for murdering John Duggan at Elmore, near Bendigo, in June last, was executed this morning at Sandhurst Gaol. Tbe condemned man protested his innocence to the last. Arrived—S.S. Mararoa. It is understood that after the General Election the Government will make » preliminary grant of £2OOO to enable Victoria to be officially represented at the Dunedin Exhibition. March 19, Harrison, who was executed .yesterday for the murder of John Duggan near Elmore, glared a man named

Cordine, who was 1 exeoted four years ago for a murder at Deniiquin, New South Wales, was innocent. Harrison, however, did not reveal anything further. In reply to a letter from Way Lee, a Chinese merchant, the Chinese Ambassudor at London says that it has been decided to hold a conference between England and China shortly, to consider the immigration question, He requests Way Leo to petition the Governments of New South Wales and Queensland to remove the border tax on Chinamen passing from one colony to another. If this does not meet with favorable response the Ambassador advises that argent appeals should be made to the British Government, He says that China objects to her subjects being taxed at all. Brisbane, March 18. Since February, 1887, not six inches of rain have fallen in the Tambo district. The effects of the long continued drought are terrible, much of the selectors’ land being unable to carry a single beast. The schooner Northern Belle has been wrecked at Banks’ Group. Four Europeans and sixteen Kanakas were drowned, March 19. The schooner Northern Bello, which was wrecked at Banks’ Group, struck the reef with a. tremendous shock and foundered immediately. Amid a scene of wild confusion, the natives looted the survivors, who effected their escape with great difficulty.