TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1873, 2 April 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, March 28. The case against Dr King, Bishop of Lincoln, charged with Ritualism, is concluded. The Bench of Bishops reserved judgment. Dalgoly and Co. have declared a , dividend of 8 per cent. ' News has been received of the death of the Hon, Guy Dawnay, who was killed by a buffalo on a hunting expedition in Masailand, He was brother to the present Viscount Downe, and was formerly member for North Riding, Yorks, in the House of Commons. A mother threw her three yonng children into the river Tyne, watched them drown, and then committed suicide, March 29, The captain and officers of H.M.S. Sultan, which was recently wrecked off Malta, will be tried by court martial for the loss of the ship. The sporting cases "Wood v, Cox and Wood v. the Earl of Durham have been compromised, and it is probable the case Sir G, Ohetwynd v, the Earl of Durham will be settled in a similar, These actions all arose out of allegations made by the Earl of Durham against Sir 6, Chetwynd’s stable, Mr Scott, manager of the Maori football team, states that be intends to bring out a strong team, composed ex-, clusively ot white colonists. By a collision between the steamer Nisayas and the ship Mamie thirty persons were drowned. - The rapprochement between England and Germany is regarded as complete, Sir E, B. Malet, British Ambassador at Berlin, has entertained the iimperor and Empress at a banquet, and the relations between Lord Salisbury and Count Herbert Bismarck, now on a visit to England, are of a most cordial character. It is expected when the Emperor visits England officially he will be reconciled to the Prince of Wales, In the House of Commons, upon the motion of Mr Goschen, a committee was appointed to enquire iuto the best moans of promoting emigration to the colonies, At a conference of miuiog delegates, representing 300,000 minersj sitting at Birmingham, a resolution has beeu agreed to recommending the establishment of the eight hours’ system and working five days a week. News has been received of the burning of the steamer Sumatra in the Mediterranean Sea, The steamer was bound to Hong-Kong with a cargo of petroleum, An action for breach of promise against a jockey named Barker resulted m a verdict for £IOOO damages, March 30. In an address to the electors of Enfield, Middlesex, Mr Gladstone declared that the essence of the Homo Buie plan had not undergone change. The prospectus of the British Water Gas Syndicate with a capital of £300,000 has been issued. The promoters undertake to make gas at 4d per thousand feet. Mr C, J. Fenwick, member for Wansbeck, moved in the House of Commons to-day that it was expedient that members of Parliament should receive an honorarium. He suggested that the amount, should be £375 per annum, Mr H. Matthews, Home Secretary ridiculed the compulsory payment of members, and doubted whether many of them would accept an honorarium yoluntarily. The Hon. G. R. Curzow, member for Southport, m speaking to the motion, said that there was not a single working man member in the Victorian Parliament. The annual boat race between Cambridge and Oxford Universities was rowed over the usual course from Putney to Mortlake to-day. The Cambridge crew led throughout, and won easily by 8 lengths, Time—2omin 14sec, The Ostend-Doyer mail boat, while crossing the strait, collided with a Belgian steamer, and was blown up. Fourteen passengers wore drowned. Prince Victor Bonaparte was rescued. The boilers of the m&il steamer exploded after the collision. The Grand National Steeplechase, of 1500 Bovs ; about miles, resulted as follows: Frigate, 1 ; Why Not, 2 ; M.P., B. The election of a representative for the Enfield constituency in the House of Commons in the place ot Viscount Folkestone took place to-day, and resulted in the return of Captain Cowles, a Conservative, by a majority of 1500 over Mr Fairbaird, the .Home Rule candidate, Father McFadden and several others who were charged with complicity in the murder of Deputy Inspector Martin at Gweedore, on the 3rd February, whilst he was endeavoring to arrest Father McFadden on a ehaago under the Crimes Act, have been committed for trial for the murder, The Inspector was struck on the head with a stone and , died in a few hours.

Paris, March 28. Gerscudoff, son of the Swiss Consul at Cannes, was found murdered in « carriage of a railway train near Genoa, There is no clue to the tnnrderer, MM, Freyciuet and Guyot oppose the prosecution of the members of the Patriotic League. The Ministry insist either that regular forms of Government must collapse or Bonlangism mast be crushed. March 29. The Government to prosecute General BoulaTiger for alleged complicity in the operations of the recently suppressed Patriotic League. ' The Hague, March 29. The Duke Adolphus of Nassau has been appointed Regent of Holland. Berlin, March 28. The Emperor William wag present at the dinner given by Prince Bismarck' to the members of the Reichstag. Berne, March 29. The arrest of those concerned in a secret bomb factory at Zurich has disclosed the existence of a huge dynamite conspiracy against the Czar and his ( Ministers. St, Petersburg, March 29. Many arrests have been made in different parts of Russia, as a result of the recent discovery of a secret bomb factory at Zurich, which was supplying Russian and other conspirators. The Journal de St. Petersburg denies the truth of the report that Russia is massing troops on the Afghan frontier. Bucharest. March 28. Prince Ferdinand, son of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollmt, and nephew of King Charles of Roumanin, has been, publicly proclaimed heir to the Roumanian Throne, [Prince Ferdinand is the second son of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern, and was born at Sigmaringen on August 24th, 1865. He is a Lieutenant in Ist Regiment of Prussian Foot Guards], New York, March 28. By the foundering of an excursion steamer on Lake Chupolo, Mexico, thirty persons lost their lives. March 30. In the chess touruamont now being held hero Mr Gossip, of South Australia, beat Mr Scbrooitcr, the American chess champion. Information has: been received that /the American barque Albert Russell, 024 tons, which left New York for Queensland on February 10th, foundered, and that only two of the crew survived. Washington, March 29. The Senate have refused to confirm the appointment of Mr Halstead, editor ot the Cincinuatti Commercial, as American Minister at Berlin.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, March 29. Sir William Jervois, upon arrival last evening from New Zealand, was received by a guard of honor. Sir William leaves for Adelaide to-day, Sydney, March 29. The Council of th/o Trades and Labor Association are urging the Government to protest against <be proposal of Mr Goschen in the Imperial Parliament to send State-aided emigrants to the colonies. The body of a girl named Lavinia Dines, who died recently, has been exhumed, os there was a suspicion that death was due to malpractice. It was found that a certain organ had been removed after death. This was a startling disclosure, as it presented similar features to those connected with the death of a woman named Reilly on the 10 tb instant, and in which case a verdict ol murder was returned against some person or persons unknown. The judicial referee in mining disputes at Newcastle has resigned. A recent case went against the men, and the latter immediately expressed dissatisfaction at the result. Tho whole proceedings clearly prove that arbitration is a farce so far »• the miners are concerned. A young man named Jeffery accidentally shot his sister, and finding she was likely to lose her life committed suicide. _ , A criminal outrage was perpetrated in the Bull! coal mine. The doors in the galleries were jammed open, so that air was diverted and explosive gases allowed to accumulate. It was discovered in time to prevent the night shift entering. March 30. It is now believed that the jamming open of the doors in the galleries of the Bulli coil mine was duo to carelessness on the part of the workmen, and that there was no attempt raudo to allow the explosive gases to accumulate. News is received from the Solomon Islands that the natives of the middle, group are actively preparing for another raid on the natives of the neighboring islands, and it is feared that much bloodshed will again result. Adelaide, March 30. Specimens of true cemndam have been fomiid in the Central Australian fields, where also favorable indications were discovered of the existence of rubies and probably diamonds,

Thursday Island, March 28. News from Singapore is to the effect that a Bill to totally suppress secret societies in the Straits Settlemon'f passed the Committee stage of the Legislative Council.