AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

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

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, April 8.

The barque ltachel went ashore nt Wsrrnambool during a heavy gale and is likely to becomo a total wreck. The crew reached land safely,

April 9.

Magnificent rains have fallen and the drought in Victoria is completely broken up, Parliament was opened to-day. The Hon. H. M. Davies •' was re-elected Speaker. Parliament was then adjourned till the 4th June. Arrived—Tekapo from Wellington. Sydney, April 8.

Heavy rain has fallen generally throughout the colony, and the drought in the western district is fairly broken, and a good winter's lambing is expected, also good wiuter feed. The rain has had the effect of opening the Darling River, which was partially closed, through drought, to navigation, and large stocks of wool which had been detained in the interior will now be brought down the river for transhipment to market. April 9.

Searle, the champion sculler, leaves for England on the 4th May. Ho proposes to challenge Teemer for £SOO a side and the championship. The race will probably be rowed on the Thames during August. He will also challenge O'Connor to a similar match three weeks later.

Adelaide, April S.

The Governor-eject, the liarl of Kintore, has arrived. Mr John Dillon, M.P., one of the Irish delegates to the colonies, was a passenger by the same steamer.

A.pril 9. Sir William Jervois bas sailed for England,

■Brisbane, April 9,

Tbo Government meteorological observer warns shipping on the west coaßt of New Zealand to be on the uleit for the approach of a dangerous storm system existing between Hobatt and Cook Strait.

Hobart, April 9.

Three lads named Marret, Floyd, and Collins, wero drowned in the river Carrie, by a boat capsizing.

PRENCn AFFAIRS,

Paris, April 8

It has been decided to prosecute Comte Delloi, Henry Rochefort, and the other adherents of General Boulanger,

It is reported that M. Tirard, the Premier, has demanded the expulsion of General .Boulanger from Belgium. The Boulangißts are riotfog at Rouen. April 9.

The Senate will sit judicially on Friday to bear charges against deputies and others of complicity in the doings of the Patriotic League. Brussels, April 8.

General Boulanger in the course of an interview stated that he anticipated that at next elections seventy districts would return his nominees to the Chamber of Deputies. He also ex passed the opinion that the Senate would find him guilty of the charges now being heard against him, and sentence him to penal servitude for life in New Caledonia.