TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1891, 14 May 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, May 9. It is reported Mr Pritchard Morgan, M.P. for Merthyr Tydvil!, has been offered the post of Solicitor-General to Queensland. Madame Melba, «he Australian cantatrice, has been offered a season’s engagement at £240 per month. Formal negotiations with China, on (be emigration question, have been suspended; pending the receipt of answers from the Colonial Governments to the despatches of the Imperial Government on the subject. It is, however, hoped communications with Chinn will be resumed shortly. The British Government has hgreed to contribute a subside of £75,000 to Canada’s £25,000 towards the Atlantic service in connection with the through rente to China and Australis, It is intended that the steamers on the line to> the latter shall have a minimum speed of fifteen knots. In has not yat been decided! at what porta theyi call, but the terminus will be in Sydney, May 10. The City of Paris has beaten the record for (be Atlantic passage, doing the distance from Queenstown to Sandy Hook in one hoar under six days, a performance quite unequalled, Thai Deceased’s Wife’s Sister Bill was rejected by the House of Lords by a majority of 27. The Prince of Wales voted for the Bill. The Queen Charlotte Sound Gold Mining Company of New Zealand, capital £200,000, has been registered. In the House of Commons Mr Henry Howarth, M.P. for : Salford. South, has given notice to ask the Government tp appoint a Royal Prince to succeed the Marquis of Londonderry ag Viceroy of Ireland, Radical members of the House of Commons intend to memorialise Lord Salisbury to compel Lord Lyttou, British Ambassador at Paris, to return to that city in order that Great Britain may bo properly represented there during the Exhibition. Rev. Ford Godolphin Osborne, aged 81, is dead. Arrived—Barque Lavia, from Port Chalmers, February 14th ; ship Waipa, from Port Chalmers, January 23rd i; barque Helen Denny, from Wellington, February ICth ; ship Invercargill, from Napier, January 21st; barque Asterion, from Bluff haibor, February Bth. May 11. The Shaw, Savill, and: Albion Company’s new steamer Marmari has beep launched. It is expected that the charge of murder on which Father McFaddon stands committed for trial will be withdrawn, The cbaiges against several others who are alleged to be implicated in the death of Inspector Martin, will, however be gone on with. The following is the result of the great Cheshire Handicap Stakes Araphion, 1 ; Screech Owl, 2; Rejected, 3. The Royal Slakes, of 1000 sovs, resulted as follows The Duke of Portland’s Ayrshire, 1 ; Lord Oaltborpe’s Sea Breeze, 2 ; The Duke of Portland’s Melanion, 3. Brussels, May 9. The screw steamer John Williamson, 1062 tons, of Oporto, was sunk by a collision off tho coast of Portugal. Turkey and Egypt have adopted the provisions, of the Sugar Convention. May 11. It is reported in this city that news has been received of Stanley’s movements, and that he is nearing Zanzibar ;) also that he is expected to roach London in about three months, Paris, May 12. Tho Austrian and French Government bare agreed to be officially represented at the International Labor Protection Congress, which is to be held in Berne next September. Berlin, May 10. There are bow 70,000 miners in Westphalia on strike. English and Belgian colliers are assisting them. May 12. The Reichstag have, adopted a Bill providing for the insurance of aged and indigent workmen. Calcutta, May 12. Tho British expedition against Karens has been successful. More than 150 of the enemy were killed. Zanzibar, May 10. Captain Wissman, who is in charge of the German operations on this coast with a force of nine hundred men, was attacked by the rebel leader Bushiri at Bagamayo at the head of six hundred Arabs. After severe fighting Bushiri was badly beaten, and fled, leaving eighty killed. Wissman lost three officers, forty blacks, and several white men. New York, May 11. News lias been received from Houoiiulu of the death of Father Damien, The rev. gentleman was highly respected, and bis death occasioned deep regret \ throughout the city and also in London,