TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1940, 7 September 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Si’pt. 4. Slflvin has challenged Jim Smith for the championship of England and £2CO a side. The murder of « gentleman who was touring in the neighborhood of Goatfall, a mountain in the island of Arran, has created considerable excitement throughout Scotland for weeks past. Laurie, the murderer, was captured just as he was in the act of committing suicide. Slaviu and Goode have arranged to fight twelve round? with gloves for £2OO a side in October. Banian during the course of an interview expressed himself in favor of Bearle. The latter is the favorite at 11 to 10, but betting is limited in extent. The experts favor Searle’s chance. Both men are in excellent health. Thousands go down to watch them practice every day. Searle expresses himself confident of winning. Daring the sham naval manoeuvres to-day a 38-ton gun on board H.M.S, Ajax, coastguard vessel, burst, The Australian and New Zealand Mortgage company have declared a dividend of 5 per cent. Sept. 5. Edward Leman Blanchard, dramatist, aged 69, is dead. A train carrying the Shah of Persia on a Russian railway came into collision with another train. The carriage occupied by His Majesty was seriously damaged, but he was extricated through a window without injury. Searla is practising starting, having found that O’Coonor is quickest away. An Australian colonist has backed Searle at £IOOO to £BOO. Smith is willing to meet Slavin under British rales for £IOOO a side. Paris, Sept. 5. Much apathy is shown in the general election, and for many seats no candidates have been announced. The election is fixed for September 22nd. Zanzibar, Sept. 5. The German expedition tinder Dr Peters proved a failure, and is returning, Chicago, Sept. 8. The trial of Dr Cronin’s murderers is blocked through challenges having exhausted the jury list.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Sept, 4. The bodies recovered from the Glebe pit present a horrible sight, and are nothing bat skin and bone, It appears that the unfortunate men made desperate efforts to escape, and in the case of Hobson be had pierced a tunnel 44 yards in length before his strength gave way. Sailed Mail steamer Alameda, for Auckland, The Calliope has been re-commissioned and the vessel is ordered Horae, She leaves in a fortnight. Cardinal Moran explains that insurance companies are merely approved for the purpose of insuring church properties, He admits interdicting societies because their funeral rites clashed with those of the Roman Catholic Church, Sept. 5. The right to the waters of the river Murray is now engaging the attention of the colonies interested. In the House of Assembly this evening Sir Henry Parkes, the Premier, said that the time had arrived when the right to the waters must be asserted, and notice be immediately served on persons who established works diverting the water for irrigation purpose, and that this step be taken without reference to other colonies.

Daring a debate in the Assembly last night on the military estimates, Sir H. Parkes said that New South Wales possessed a force of over 9000 men, and could raise 80,000 at short notice. Melbourne, Sept. 4. The most extensive floods ever known are raging at Numurkab. Miles of country are inundated and there has been great loss of stock, Sailed yesterday-—Mararoa, for the Bluff, Sept, 5, Arrived Te Anau, from the Bluff, Hobart, Sept. 4. The s.s. Kimutaka arrived a 9 o’clock last night and sails for New Zealand at II ibis morning. She brings 37 passengers for Australia and 100 for New Zealand.