TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1912, 4 July 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. 1

London, June 30.

Sir G. Chetwynn* was convicted by the Jockey Clob of..conniving at malpractices on the turf. He, was. awarded a farthing damages, and ordered to pay his own costs.

Letters have been received confirming the statement that Stanley and JEmin Bey are. struggling down towards the Zanzibar coast under great hardships. The New Zealand Shipping Company's Aorangi left Plymouth for New Zealand yesterday.,. Mr W. O'Brien has returned to Cork. There was great excitement among the crowd which assembled to greet him and a disturbance ensued, which led to the police using their batons ireely over the beads of the mob.

France and Russia baye refused to assent to the Egyptian Convention. A marriage has been arranged between Albert Victor, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, and his cousin j Princess Victoria of Germany, sister of the Emperor William. [Prince, Albert Victor Christian. Edward, K,G., eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, was born June Btb, 1864, and is. therefore in his 26tb year. Princess Frederica Amelia Wilhelmina Victoria is the second daughter and third child of the late Emperor Frederick 111. and the Empress Victoria of Germany. Bet Royal Highness was born at Potsdam on April 12tb, 18S6, and is, consequently, a little, over twenty-three, years of age],

July ,1.

The now mail contract entered into by the Orient Steam Navigation Company, provides for a niueteen-fenot service between either, London, Cherbourg, or Plymouth, and Montreal, or Halifax. The subsidy to be paid' is £IOO,OOO. per annum.

The reveaue returns for the quarter ended June 30th exceed thosß of the corresponding quarter of 1888 by ,£86,000. i Latham, the absconding jeweller who was arrested at Hobart and sent Home in the Coptic, effected his escape while the steamer was at Rio de.Janiero, , The Shah of Persia has arrived in < London.

Mr W, O'Brien, M.P., who was recently discharged from custody, has been again arrested for a seditious speech delivered at Tipperary.,,. A cablegram received from New sTork states that Dr John Mclnery is missing, and that it is believed ha has been lured to Tomoatoa and murdered at the instigation of the Clan-na-Gael Society, In the Angerstein divorce case a deoree nm was granted conditionally on proof being adduced of the wife's alleged previous marriage in N,ew Zbaland, July 2.

General surprise is expressed in Society at the Queen .consenting, to the marriage of the Princess Louise and the Earl of Fife, Ihe latter is considerably her senior, and two of his sisters have been divorced. The friends of the Duke of Portland assert that he asked for the hand of ths Princess .Louise, and that Her Majesty refused to consent. Hence, the, coldness between the Duke and the Prince of Wales, and the absence of Royalty from His Gracefs wedding. This is also alleged; to be the, reason why the customary presents from the Royal family were not sent on that occasion. . France has resumed parleying on the Egyptian question.. Mr W. J. Laue, ; member for Cork, has been arrested; for complicity with Mr O'Brien. While effecting' the letter's arrest, ,the police were compelled to fire on the crowd,,,and two persons were wounded. Searle and Matterson have been banquetted by their admirers. The champion,..responding to tho toast of his health, declared, that he would win or drop exhausted in his boat. Mr Wise, formerly Attorney-General, of New South Wales, writing on Australian politics, makes some-severe remarks on colonial Irishmen. After stating that corruption is 'unknown, amongst colonial politicians, he proceeds to say that members of Parliament who made themselves conspicuous by dis- t orderly conduct are generally Irish or represent Irish constituencies. The Irish vote is cast in New>South Wales for protection, in Victoria for publicans, in Queensland for nationalism, but in all cases,it is always agaiust the Government. The ; Rpman Catholic priesthood, be alleges, desire to obtain control of public scho.ols, The. object of the laity is to grab the public offices. Fivesixths of the billet hunters are Irish. Mr Wise also quoted the romarks of the Melbourne Age on the political organisation of the Catholic Church, Paris, July 1.

Iu the Chamber of Deputies M. Theyenet, member for the Rhone department, produced letters intended to show that General Boulanger was forging documents for the purpose of in criminating members of the Government in misappropriation of Goverunien moneys.

St. Petersburg,. Jqne, 30; •,

The Journal de, St; Petersbpurg agrees! with Cpnnt Kalooky's claim, that the 1 independence • ol ( the Balkan States l should, be .respected, and approves of; the A policy,,of the. Servian Regents- and: believes, r they ; will restore, the; intimatoj union with iißussia xwhich. once existed, The,| journal ; algp ; declares that- Russia! will, never,, interfere with ; Servian independence,.,,; and cordially: acoeptsi Kalnoky'a of peace. • Zanzibar, Juiy 1.

Dr PeterSi is.now cn-opersting with Captain Wissman,/. and the.. German foroes have landed at Kamur: and are marching into the inferior, j Chicago, Juno 30.

Seven prisoners have been indicted for the murder of Br OVonin. Sullivan is not amongst the number, and it is expected he will be re-arrested nnd charged later on.

July!.'

The Grand Jury have indicted. Patrick O'Sullivan, Burke, Cooney, Biggs, Cunge, Woodruffe, and ' Detective Couglin, for complicity in the murder of Dr Cronin. The trial will take place this month. «* . AUSTRALIAN CABLE., Sydney,, July 1. Arrived—Rotqmabana; For the twelvemonths ended,June 30 the revenue amounted ,t0,£5,963,0Q0j being an increase of £252,000;0n. the preceding year. The railways show; an increase, July 2. The body of Petit, : one of the minora entombed in the ,A.A- Compnny's mine,; has been recovered in an advanced state of decomposition.; Brisbane, July 2. The revenue,of Queensland,; for, the year was £3.614,000, beingjan .increase of £437,000. The expenditure was i£3,497,000. In face of the. previous year's deficiency ot £602,000, there, jb still a deficiency of £485,000. Perth, July 2.

A sensational attempt was made last night to wreck a train on the YorkBeverley line, At intervals for a distance of a quarter >of : a mile the line was iblocked with piles- of rocks and fallen trees. A man ..named Ford and a woman named Bowron have been arrested on suspicion. . Albany. July. 1.

Arrived—lberia; Passengers for New : Zealand-rMr -Fell,' and Mr and Mrs Edwards.

Thursday Island, July 2.

Informatiqg has reached here that three Frenchmen, suspected- of being recidiyiste escapees, have been, wrecked at Nagbee, after. being a month in an ppen boat,,. They assert that they are free men, and that in the wreck they lost a box containing three thousand francs. Pending an inquiry the men have been placed under arrest. -