TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1881, 20 April 1889, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 16. The Xougariro arrived at; Rio do Janeiro on the 11th inst. All well. Her cargo of frozen meat was in good condition. Lady Mac Arthur is dead, It is reported that the Marquis of Salisbury will visit Prince Bisra»rcb at Easter.

The Dublin Freeman's Journal publishes a statement to the effect that Government intends shortly to introduce a revolutionary Land Bill. Tbe tenders for the Tasmanian loan of £1,000,000 inscribed 3| per cent, were opened to-day. The total amount tendered for was £2,190,000. The average price realised was £9B 5s 6d It is now quoted at li preminm. A.pnl 17. Doric arrived at Plymouth on Sunday with her meat in good condition, O'Connor and Teenier are willing to row Soarie on the Th»mos or Tyne. Paris, April 17. It is reported that the Czar will visit tbe Exhibition,

Government have decided to prosecuts M. Lovoisiexe, Chairman, and M. Hecretan, manager, of the Societe des Metaux, for unlawfully raising the price of copper. The Committee of the Senate appointed to enquire into the grounds for prosecuting Boulanger are conducting their proceedings in private, Rome, April 16.

Signor Crispi will accompany King Humbert on a visit to the Emperor of Germany on the 29th May, Bucharest, April 16. A Kussophile journal, published in Boumania, asserts that war has been declared against King Charles. Constantinople, April 16. Messrs £. W. Burtton and H. R Stokes, Melbourne cyclists, who are. making a tour of the world, have reached Stamboul. Up to the present they have travelled 4000 miles on their bicycles. From here they proceed through Italy and France, Capetown, April 14. Coptic sailed to-day for Port Chalmers via Hobart.

LATEST

London, April 17. The money required by the New Zealand Midland Railway Company has been subscribed. April 18. Seven steamers, conveying 6000 emigrants, sailed from Liverpool yesterday for America. The ship Bay of Cadiz, bound from Sydney to San Francisco, is posted as missing.

Boulanger's emissaries are arranging for a meeting of the French colony in London. If their efforts succeed Boaianger will come over. Mr Thomas Farrer, in a lotter to the Press, contends that Lord Salisbury ought to exclude beef from South America, protected by the bounty system of the Argentine Republic, if he excludes bounty fed sugar,

It is reported that the placing of the balance of the South Australian loan at par early in the present month waß a merely nominal transection, and that the South Australian Government will be compelled to give the brokers a private concession equivalent to -| per cent. Sir Arthur Blytho (Agent-General for South Australia) refuses to give any information on the subject. The ratification of the Sugar Bounties Convention by Parliament is considered doubtful. The sugar market is much excited.

Viscount Cross, Secretary of State for India, has dismissed Mr Arthur Crawford, who in August 1888 was acquitted on a criminal charge in connection with the office held by him at Bombay from the Indian service. Three Governors of Russian provinces have beeu arrested in connection with the plot against the Czar, which was frustrated by the discovery of the secret bomb factory at Zurich en March 20. Paris, April 17. The Senate hts ordered M. Paul de Cassßguac'e house to be searched,

Belgrade, April IS.

A report is current here to the effect that ex-King Milan of Servia divorced his wife and abdicated the throne under the influence of the suggestion made to him while in an hypnotic state by Madame Christie, wife of the politician of that name. It is further stated that thie lady frequently used King Milan as a mesmeric medium. Cairo, April 17.

One ol the Mahdi's Emirs has reached Sarras at the head of 1000 men, and the authorities in this city are in a state of great alarm. b April 18.

It is rumored in this city that El Senoussi defeated the Khalifa with great loss at a seven days' journey from Omdurtuan. lUe Mahdi's generals were captured, and after his defeat he retreated to Khartoum. New lork, April 17.

By a fire at Bergen, a considerable town of New Jersey, 35 buildiugs were destroyed.^