TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1870, 26 March 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, March 21

Mr Chamberlain, speaking on the Irish question, said it was time that Government gave proofs of their readiness to proposo a substitute for Mr Gladstone's rejected Irish Bill. He urged that a comprehensive and final scheme of land purchase should precede any local government proposal. The Most Rev. William Bernard Ullathorn, 0.5.8., Archbishop of Cabasa, of St. Mary's College, Oscott, near Birmingham, is dead. It is reported that the Government will propose next year to apply £50,000,000 to extending Lord Ashbourne's Act in Ireland. Dr Dale, a well-known Independent minister, in a magazine article dealing with the religious and moral aspect of Australian life, doubts if secular education has at all impaired the religious faith of (be colonists of Victoria.

It is reported that the Public Prosecutor at Mentone is applying to have Prince Ferdinand's marriage with the opera singer, Fraulein Dossinger, quashed, on the ground of fraudulent I declaration, The Queen has cancelled ttij orrlr>r she had giveu for a portrait, of the Prince. Prinoo Alexander, who is in Servifl, has been requested by his mother not to return at present, Truth comments on the avility with which English clergymen appointed to colonial bishoprics return to England when they get the chance, and urge'). Sydney and Taemania to provide for themselves, instead of applying to what it calls an English "jobbing" syndicate. A steam tramcar was overturned

while going round a curve at Wigan, in 5 Lancashire. Twenty persons were kil ed or injured. The Duke of Cambridge ridicules Lord Wolsoley’s advocacy of conscripr tion in England. r March 22. Count Herbert Bismarck is visiting England on a holiday trip. 1 In the House of Lords yesterday the ’ second reading of Earl Carnarvon’s Bill J providing for the disqualification of peers [ guilty of certain offences was negatived I by a majority of 49. 1 Heavy gales have been raging on the [ west coast of Scotland, and twelve fishermen are reported to be drowned at 1 Stornoway. The Shaw Savill and Albion Shipping Company, the New Zealand . Shipping Company, Tyser and Company, and Frederick Martin and Company, in view of oppositions in the shape of the Imperial and Colonial Trading Company of Liverpool, are securing additional steamers for the New Zealand meat trade, It is probable that the above mentioned firms will combine to establish freezing stores at Manchester, Liverpool, and Glasgow. Mr Mather, a Parnellite, has been elected for the Gorton division (Lanca. shire), vacant by’ the death of Mr Richard Peacock. He defeated bis opponent, Mr Hatch, a Tory, by 846 votes. Fourteen of the leading paper-works are forming a trust with a' capital of £2.000,000.

It is reported that Count Herbert Bismarck intends to visit England to endeavor to effect an alliance between Germany and England, bat the statement is not confirmed. I Lady Donegal’s petition for separation from the Marquis of Donegal, an old man of 67, who has just succeeded to the title, was refused on the ground [of prostitution. The Marquis was also refused a divorce on the ground ot immorality on his side. The disclosures made during the hearing of the two suits caused a great sensation. The Marquis accused his wife of adultery in Australia and elsewhere. [Lord Donehas already had a somewhat

chequered matrimonial experience. He ‘ was married first in 1859 to Lucy i ii'lizuteth Virginia, the daughter of Mr W. 11. Oliver, of Somerset, ami divorced wife of Mr William Mure, and the marriage was declared null and void a few years afterwards. Id 1865 he was married to bis present wife, Mary Ann Williams, daughter of the late Mr Edward Kobb, of Wright's Lane, Kensington, and of Arnold, Kent], March 23, Lord Salisbury and Mr J. Chamber-, lain have virtually arranged a Unionist programme, dealing particularly with |

reforms in Ireland. The result of their I deliberations will be emboddied in a Bill, which, it is understood, will be« introduced next session, March 24., The match between the Maori football, team and the Bull Club resulted in a draw, both sides scoring 1 try. Paris, March 21. The new syndicate offers £45 per ton for the old syndicate’s stocks ot copper, amounting to 150 tons, on condition; that the output of the mines is restricted. March 23. A French torpedo boat was lost a»ft Harfli ur to«day in a hurricane. Four-i teen men were drowned. •

Berlin, March 23.

Prince Bismarck, in a despatoh to Herr Steubel, who has been recently appointed German Consul at Samoa, vice Dr Knappe recalled, declares that Dr Knappe'<s conduct towards foreigners and natives of Samoa lacked coolness ; that Dr Knappe had no authority to declare war, proclaim martial law, or attempt to secure the annexation of Samoa to Germany.

March 24,

The Berlin Poßt states that the Samoan Conference has been postponed till May. Prince Bismarck considers that peace is assured.

St. Petersburg, March 24. Count Peter Schuvaloff, aged 61, is dead.

Buda-Pesth, March 21.

During the riotiug in this city to-day Premier Tisza and members of the Hungarian Cabinet were assaulted in the streets. Scenes took place in the district, and troops were employed to keep the town quiet. Calcutta, March 22.

An aeronaut named Spencer made an ascent from this city to-day. He forgot to tako his parachute, and it is believed that ho has been carried out to ssa,

Hong-Kong, March 23.

Reports from the province of Shang Tung state that the misery in that district caused by famine aad fever is appalling. Numbers of the inhabitants are committing suicide in order to escape starvation.

Cairo, March 23.

El Senouissi has occupied Darfour and Kordofan, and has expelled the dervishes from both places. Reports have been received confirming Eruin Bey's victory in July. New York, March 22. An American Salt Trust is being formed,

Ottawa, March 21.

The motion in the Canadian House of Commons in favor of a reciprocal tariff with the United States was rejected.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, March 22.

M. H. Davies, Speaker, J, L. Dow, Minister of Agriculture, EL, J. Wrixon, Attorney-General, and Sir B„ O'Loughlin have been returned unopposed. Altogether 230 candidates haye been nominated of whom 130 are in favor of the Government. 140 have declared themselves opposed to an increase of the stock tax.

Sir Wra. Clark was last night installed as Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of Victorian Masons, Sydney, March 22.

Owing to the depression in the copper industry the Burroga mines have had to discharge o.ne hundred men. Hong Kong files received by the mail give dc j 't»i l s of the wreek of the steamer Kemus, She struck on a rock two days; sailing from Manilla, and fles.ted off and* foundered in deep water. Out of 160 souls on board 42 were drowned. Adelaide, March 22. The Coffee 1 Palace here wag parti ally destroyed, by fire lhi3 mo mi ng. The Kev, Mr Tallin, who upou the alarm being given managed to eff-ct his escape, re-entered the burning building to rouse a lady lodger and perished in the nViTnes, Another lodger nan iod King was severely injured by falli o,g from a window whilst trying to maL '«' his enca.po. I?bisbane, March 22. I Terrible accounts are coming to hand of the effects of the drought in the western district, where the railways are being usrd to convey starving sheep to the cr astai districts.