TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1932, 20 August 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, August 12. Mr Maxwell, one of the commissioners of the New Zealand Railways, has accepted an invitation to attend the Railway Congress to be. held in Paris in connection with the exhibition. Sir Graham Berry, Agent - General for Victoria, is endeavoring in accordance with instructions received from his Government, to secure the services of an expert medical man to visit the colony and advise the best means of suppressing the epidemic of diseases, Subscriptions received up to the present time towards the fund opened to defray the cost of the defence of.the charge of ritualism brought against the Rev. Dr King, Bishop of Lincoln, amount to £7OOO. It is estimated that about £IO,OOO will be required. The approaching match between Searle and O’Connor for the rowing championship, is expected to prove a very close contest. Beth men are reported as showing excellent form. It is noted as a significant circumstance that the Thames watermen, who have exceptional opportunities of comparing the form shown by the two men, are strong backers of the Canadian. Searle will row the match in a new boat by Clasper,

11l has been ascertained that Wad-El-Njumi, chief of the Dervishes, who fell at Toski Anabi, Upper Egypt, while leading an overwhelming force against the small army of General Grenfell, was shot by the treachery of one of bis followers.

Lord Knntaford, addressing a public meeting at Midhurst, Sussex, briefly referred to the Irish difficulty, and declared that the colonies would despise the Mother Country if they seriously contemplated a dissolution of the Union, The report that Mrs Roberts, a wealthy lady residing in Australia, had presented £125,000 to the Welsh Caivinistic Methodist Church is now officially denied. Slavic, the champion boxer of Australia, has renewed bis challenge to fight Smith or Mitchell, well-known members of the prize ring. The Imperial Government have increased the salary of tbe office of High Commissioner of Sontb Africa, to which Sir Henry Loch has been appointed, by £3OOO. This is in addition to tbe salary of £SOOO and allowances which are how set apart for the Governorship of Cape Colony. August 18, Rear-Admiral Lord Charles Scott, C. 8., nayal aide de camp to Her Majesty the Queen, and who was in command of the royal squadron which escorted Prince George and Prince Albert Victor of Wales to Australia, some years ago, has been appointed to succeed Admiral Fairfax as Commander of tbe Australian Squadron, It is stated that there is a serious

failing off in (be amount collected on behalf of the Parneliite party. The mission to Australia, which it was hoped would bring in a large sum to the fund, is, it is stated, a failure, and the sums collected, it is stated, will be barely more than enough to pay the travelling ex* penses of the three members of Parliament sent as delegates, as they live at first-class hotels and are at great expense when travelling through the country. The Powers have replied to the circular addressed to them by the Government of Greece, suggesting that they should interpose to restore order in Crete. The suggested interposition will not be made, the decision arrived at being not to meddle with the dispute. Miss Knight, of Melbourne, having passed the necessary examination, has been granted her diploma as a Doctor ot Medicine,

Fred Leslie, of the Gaiety Theatre Burlesque Company, says he made £4OOO profit out of his Australian tour last year, but lost £9OOO during his subsequent American tour,

Papers found by General Grenfell among the effects of Wad-eKNjumi, lata leader of the Dervish party in Egypt, include important documents which prove that Wad-el-Njnmi had taken a very prominent part in the late Mahdist movement for some years, .The papers show that he was loader of the Arab forces which destroyed the troops led by General Hicks at El Obeid in 1883, and that be was at the head of the Mahdists who captured Khartoum and murdered General Gordon in 1885.

An attempt was made yesterday to murder the agent of Lord Olanricardo, on whose estate troubles have lately arisen in connection with eviction proceedings. The Emperor Francis Joseph is now paying a visit to the Emperor of Germany at Berlin, where be has been received with marked enthusiasm.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, August 13.

r.oecatly writs of ejectment wore served upon a number of persons occupying and claiming a targe area of land at Not Ih Willoughby. The total area exceedg 1000 acre?, wor|h fully

£BOO an acre, The claim id by the grandson of the original grantee oh the ground thot the property had been eh* tailed by the will of one Nioholls, and that all alienations inf defiance thereof are noil and void. same person is Also making claim to 80 acres of city land in the Surrey Hills, the value of which is enormous. At a meeting of the Presbytery, it was decided to urge the General Assembly to move inShe direction of a reinstatement of Bible reading in State schools. Influence is to be brought at next' election to pledge candidate’s to this end, and that Government shohld be nrged to grant capitation towards the support Of Roman Catholic schools, > ’ Ihe schooner Wanganui hap arrived at Cooktowh' from Sudest with 32 passengers and 200ozs of gold. Two men were sick, and a third died during the voyage. 'Reports of the goldfields at New Guinea are very discouragingl August 13. Bishop Webber has sent a telegram to the at Sydney, in referenpe to the appointment of . Csnon Smith to be Primate Australia, e,tating that be wrote to the Bishop of Goulburn last week, objecting to the procedure, and must now respeptfully protest against Canon Smith’s appointment as invalid, It is understood, that Bishop Webber is of opinion that such mode of. appointment virtually deprives the Bishops of Australia and Tasmania of their right of choice.