TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1890, 11 May 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, May 7 . At the opening of the Royal Academy to-day the Marquis of Salisbury announced that an anonymous donor bad offered to erect a new National Portrait Gallery on the site offered by the Government near Trafalgar square. It is rumored that the Right Hon, W. H. Smith, leader of the House of Commons, is the donor referred to. In the libel action, Otago Dock Trust v. the Standard, in which the ! latter secured a verdict, an application by plaintiffs for a new trial was refused. The Princess of Wales, to-day, laid the foundation stone of a new hospital in th'S' Eastdß road' the medical staff at which will be wholly composed of women. News from the West Coast of Africa states that the King of Dahomey is seeking British protection. Miss Weidmann, who recently brought an action against the Hon, E. Walpole, heir to the Earldom of Orford, for breach of promise, has succeeded in obtaining an order for a new trial. The second reading of the Naval Defence Bill was passed by a majority of 141. It is reported that Sir H. Robinson returns to the Cape in three years time. May 8. The Edinburgh City Council, who on April 24th, passed a resolution in favor of conferring the freedom of the city on Mr Parnell by 24 to 13, bas re-affirmed its previous resolution by 23 to 14. The Marquis of Ripon delivered an address at Limehouae, in the course of which he said that when the Irish question was settled the Liberal party would endeavor to solve the social problem os to the cause of misery in the East-end of London, and pass remedial measures, with the object of mitigating the suffering of the masses,

Mr Lee, speaking before the Baptist Union, said that Australian federation was probable, but Imperial unlikely. During his sojourn in the colonies ho had noticed the tendency of young Australia was towards separation from the Mother Country with the ultimate object of forming a United States of Australia. The Chester Cup, of 700sovs, 2£ miles, resulted as follows:—Milletreara, 1 ; Dante, 2 ; Cotillion, 3. Madame Melba, an Australian singer, has made her debut in Paris in the character of Ophelia, The Flogging of Criminals Bill, intro, duced by Mr T'. Morvain, member for Durham, passed its second reading in the House of Commons by a majority of 68. Berlin, May 8. A Socialist conspiracy has been discovered at Hamburg. Twenty-five arrests have been made, May 9. Owing to the strikes in Westphalia, Krupp’s works at Essen have been compelled to suspend work for the want of coal. Zorich, May 9. The Federal Council of Switzerland has decided to expel from Zurich fifteen Russian conspirators concerned in the recent discoyery of bombs. St. Petersburg!, May 7. Russia at once extends the Samarcand Railway to Tashkend. Count Tolstoi, the celebrated novelist, is dead. Capetown, May 8. Endeavors are being made to arrange inter-state freetrsde between the Cape, Natal, and the Orange Free State, Ottawa, May 8. The Canadian Government will shortly invite tenders for a line of to Australia. It is believed the Australian Governments will co-operate,