TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1901, 8 June 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Jane 4. It is reported that the Earl of Bel--1 more has declined the Governorship of Cape Colony, and that it has now been offered to Lord Harris. Blight among the hops is increasing. It is reported that Prince George is to be attached to the Australian squadron. Shareholders in the Blue Spur Mining Company, Otago, have unanimously decided in favor of removing Mr J. 0. Brown and Mr Mclntosh from the directorate, and have also decided to abandon the Blue Duck, Fidelity, and North Ireland properties, in consequence of Mr Morrison’s report on the workings. June 5, The funds subscribed for league purposes in America, will in future be remitted to Mr Parnell direct, avoiding contact with the Clan-na-Qael Society. The House of Commons will resume business on June 17th. ' Mr Gladstone is touring in the western district. A Pasteur Institute, on a similar basis to that established in Paris last year, is being formed in London. The Grand Lodge of England have recognised the recently constituted Grand Lodge of Victoria. In the course of his speech at a meeting of the Primrose League, Lord Harris, the chaiiman of the grand council, expressed a hope that a lecturer would shortly make a tour of the Australian colonies in the interest of the Unionist parly, in order to furnish an antidote to the poison disseminated by Sir T. Esmond, Messrs J. Dillon, and J. Deasy, the Irish delegates. The following is the result of the Derby :—Donovan, 1 ; Miguel, 2 ; El Dorado, 3.—ln the race for the Derby, Donovan assumed the lead a quarter of a mile from the winning post, and won in a canter by a length and a half. Time—2min 44 2-sth sec, June 6, At the annual meeting of the P. eud 0, Company the report showed that trade with the Australian colonies was much depressed, while that with India wrs in a state of partial collapse. The Prince of Wales is patron of Victorian Masons, Speaking at Southampton W r Gladstone expressed the opinion that if a general election were to take place at the present time, his party would return , to power with a majority of 100. Paris, June 5. The Chamber of Deputies have repudiated a suggestion that Lord Lytton’s absence from the opening of the exhibition should be regarded as a manifestation of English hostility to France. President Carnot, who is making a tour through the North of Franco, has been received with great enthusiasm. At the annual meeting of the Suez Canal shareholders, M. De Lesseps stated that be had learnt from M. Waddington, the French Ambassador at the Court of St. James’ in 1883, that the English shareholders had sanctioned M. De Lesseps to reduce the dues for the use of the canal, thus averting competition and ruin, St, Petersburg, Juno 5. The speech delivered by the Czar on the occasion of the betrothal of his cousin, has encouraged a warlike spirit in Russian military circles, The Grand Duke Nicholas publicly congratulated Prince Nikita as the future Governor of Bosnia, June 6. It is reported that the Czarewich is betrothed to the daughter of Prince Nikita. Belgrade, June 4. The Government have confiscated the French Company’s railways in Servia, and the French Government entered a protest against the action taken. Calcutta, June S. The State of Cashmere agrees to furnish a regiment of two thousand men and a battery of artillery for Imperial defence. Massowah, June 6. The Italians have occupied Keren, New York, June 4. The Chesapeake-Ohio canal and 20 foiles of the Coburn-Lewisburg railway ha-?e been completely destroyed by the recent floods. ■<> AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, June 5. It is stated that the Irish delegates have collected upwards of £IO,OOO in the past month. * Melbourne, June 6. Arrived Rotomahana, from the Bluff. Sailed yestGrcu v _Te Anau, for the Bluff, Adeia. ide> June 6. PeiTiament was opened tliis afternoon by His Excellency the Gyernor, the Harl of Kintore. The Speeß f rflEl t} 3 Throne staled that although'"q l 8 p ßa t season had been a bad one, yet> waß j hoped that the reyenue would be

fieient to meet the. expenditure. The present prospects of the colony were very hopeful.