TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1893, 18 May 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London - , May 14. Irvine Bishop, thought reader, has died from hysteric catalepsy. It is understood the paper syndicate will increase the prices by 5 per cent; Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Sir James Pergnsson said that no reports bad been received by the Government as to the alleged persecution of Protestant natives of Mare Island, one of the Loyalty Group, The Naval Defence Bill has passed the Committee stage in the Honse of Commons, The Inland Revenue Bill has been read a second time. Baron Renter has. oblained fresh concessions from the Shah cf Persia, which wilh enable him to establish: an Imperial Bank and work shale mines in that country. The Standard asserts that Germany has declined to sell estates in Samoa, and has refused to make any promise to refrain from chastising Mataafa. In the House of Commons Baron de Worms stated that the Australian colonies not having offered any objection to the final conditions of the Sugar Bounties- Convention, he assumed they have agreed to accept it as it stands. He said the Victorian Bill which provided for a differential duty on cane and beet sugar was not repealed, When the Convention passed, Victoria would be bonnd to the same law as England, It is reported that the Prince of Wales is willing to become an active leader of society in Ireland. May 15. Mr F. De Winton has received a letter from Stanley, in which be expresses his intention of returning by the East African route. It is impossible to say at present whether Emin is with him. An objection has been lodged against .Ringmaster, the horse which won the Great Northern Handicap yesterday at the York Spring Meeting, on the ground that the jockey Turner is not a bond fide apprentice. It has transpired that the Countess of Dudley, knowing her son had been fleeced in a gambling hell carried on in a club at Park Place, and failing to induce the police to take action, applied to the Home Secretary, Mr Matthews, to have the club closed. The result was that the police were compelled to interfere. Three members of the Carlton Club were among those arrested. The objection laid against Ringmaster being awarded the stakes in'the Great Northern Handicap on the ground that the jockey was not a bond fide apprentice, has been overruled as frivolous. The first discovery of the fact that gold was missing from the Orient Company’s steamer Iberia was made on the arrival of the vessel at London, The company assume that possibly the money was short shipped at Sydney. Mr O’Brien intends to sue the Marqis of Salisbury for alleged libel and slander in a speech delivered by the Premier at Walford in March. Mr Wi L, Bright, member for Stokeupon.Trent, will include New Zealand in bis colonial tour. The House of Commons have rejected the proposal for the disestablishment of the Church in Wales. May 16. It is likely that Mr Garner, of the firm of W illiamson, Garner, and Mosgrove, will engage Mrs Langtry for a three months’ tour in Australia. Paris, May 16. Eight tbonsand shares of the new Comptoir d’Escompte, which were placed in the markethave been subscribed twofold. M. Jameson, director of the Mendoza Observatory, declares that experiments made at the top of the Eiffel Tower have proved that there is no oxygen in the atmosphere of the son, Vienna, May 15, The Austri an Government are exempting from taxation for twenty-four years pew workmen’s dwellings built on modem approved principles, Berlin, May 15. The Westphalian miners’ deputation hod an interview of ten minutes with the Emperor William. They asked him to enquire into their case, and he replied that he had already been inquiring. The Emperor went on to warn them that he would employ all the mighty resources at the disposal of the head of the German empire to repress the socialist agitation and intrigues, and that if there was the slightest resistance he would shoot eyery man. They might protest ■ as much as they liked, and so long as they were peaceable he would see that they bad due protection. It is estimated that the strike occasions a daily loss to capitalists of one million marks. St. Petersburg, May 13. Another plot against the life of the Czar was discovered on the. occasion of Count Tolstoi’s funeral, which the Czar attended. Many Arrests were made, chiefly of the military. A number of bombs were found in a bouse adjacent to i the route of the cortege, One hundred

detectives mingled with the populace, and thus managed to avert the plot. (SINGAPORE, May 15. The troops of the Subon of Acheen attacked the Dutch garrison at Edi, and after a sharp fight the Acheenese were routed with a loss ot 160 killed. Thirty of the Dutch were killed, Cairo, May 15. The Mahdi’s letter to the Egyptian post at Wad? Haifa threatened the Queen and Khedive, He also forwarded the original ot lb* loiter which the Queen sent to King John of Abyssinia by Mr Portal, when that gentleman went on his mission of mediation in December. Washington, May 13. It is suggested -that a conference of experts in the treatment of leprosy should be held in one of the European capitals. It is also proposed that a memorial fund should be raised to honor ihe late Father Damien, who recently died at the Leper Station, near Honolulu. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, May 15, Government have decided to immediately appoint a Commissioner for the Dunedin Exhibition, Arrived—Taupo, from New Zealand. Sailed—Waihora, for the Bluff. May 16. Arrived—TheQerman warship Sophie, en route for Apii. The Maori team played their first match under Victorian rules against a Maryborough twenty, and it was evident from the start that the New Zealanders were not well acquainted with the game, but they showed splendid kicking powers. Maryborough won by six goals and six behinds to one goal snd two behinds, Nehoa secured the only goal for the visitors. Sydney, May 14. Arrived—Oban and Hauroto. May 16. The Government have taken the opinion of counsel with regard to the alleged misappropriation of the funds of the Casual Labour Board by Mr John Davies, the chaiiman, and find that by reason of his office he is not amenable to the law under which a prosecution could be maintained. The petrified body of a man has been found in a solid block of marble taken from a quarry near Orange. The remains are nearly perfect, and the head shows unmistakeable signs of having been scalped before death. Sailed—Zealandid, 8.8., for San Francisco, via Auckland, The agents of the Orient Steamship Company and the Union Bank authorities are of opinion that the 5000 sovereigns were abstracted from the shipment of 50.000 sovereigns, and that the robbery was committed before the Iberia left Australian waters,