TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1877, 11 April 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

London, April 7. Sailed from Plymouth on the 6th, s.a. Ruapehu, for Wellington.

Gold has been discovered in the neighborhood of Torquay. Sir Francis de Winton, formerly Ad-ministrator-General of thfi Congo, states in a letter to the Press that he doubts the truth of the story brought by Arab traders to Stanley Falls, to the effect that they had seen Stanley and Emm Bey marching in the direction of Zanzibar.

The Rev. Dr Parker, the eminent Congregational minister, in the course of a speech at Liverpool said the reason he refused to stand on a Liberal platform with Mr John Morley was owing to the latter's attacks on religion in his writings.

General Gordon's library has been presented to the Borough of Southampton,

April 8.

Rev, Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, Baronet and Canon Residentiary of flereford Cathedral, the eminent composer of church music ; aged 64, is dead.

Captain Thomas, lately of Victoria, has been appointed president of the special servico board in connection with the Australian cruisers, Tho Ostend mail boat on board of which was Prince Jerome Bonaparte, who was returning to France from a visit to the ex-Empress Eugenie, collided with *a barque off Dover. The steamer sustained only slight damage, The personality of the late John Bright amounts to three quarters of a million. The Times condemns the PostmasterGeneral, Mr Raikes, fcr bis discourteous treatmaut of Mr Henoiker Heaton, and applauds the latter's endeavors to secure a reduction of telegraph rates to and from the Continent.

The Australian horse Ringmaster won the Billesden Welter Handicap at the Leicester Spring Meeting, easily. An objection was lodged on the ground that the horse had not been habitually trained in England, but it was overruled. April 9.

The death 1s announced of Mr CoufctsCrawford, formerly sheriff of Wellington, New Zealand.

The court-martial on the captain and officers of H.M.S. Sultan, which was recently wrecked ou the island of Comini, between Mslta and Gozo, is concluded, Captain Rice was censured for keeping too close in shore.

The fleet will assemble at Spithead for the summer manoeuvres on the 16th July.

In the House of Commons the Scotch Local Government Bill was read a first time. The measure has been well received. Jupp, the cricket.tr, is dead.

Dr McGregor, Commissioner of New Guinea, in a report laid on the table of the House of Commons, says that the Roman Catholic missions in New Guinea have proved useful pioneers of settlements, and urgeb an increase of Protestant missions.

Madrid, April 9.

The Spanish Government refused the request of China to be allowed to establish Chinese Consulates in Spanish dependencies in the Pacific. Brussels, • April 9. The Bake of Nassau has assumed the regency of Luxembourg. St. Petersburg, April 7.

General Komeroff is on a tour of inspection at Penjdeh on the Afghan frontier.

Vienna, April 9. The Army Bill has now been p»ssed by the Hungarian and Austrian Pari inments.

Bucharest, April 9. M. Catargi has formed a new Ministry of Russopbile tendencies. Bombay, April 9.

The city of Surat was partially destroyed by a fire which has occurred. It rendered 15,000 persons homeless, The damage is estimated at 25 laos of rupees,

Hong-Kong, April 7. Mr Kwong Pei who was formerly attached to the Chinese Embaspy at Washington, advocates the expulsion of all Americans from the peryice of the Chinese Government in retaliation for the action of the United States in excluding tho Chinese from that country. Cairo, April 7.

The Khalipha (El Mabdi) is marching against El Senouissi, who on the first of April was reported to be within a few days' march of Khartoum. A battle is impending, New York, April 8. Blackburn, an American player, is HOW leading in the chess tournament. Bio de Janeiro, April 9.

The Brazilian Government have instructed the Embassy in London to declare the yellow lever epidemic at an end.