TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1941, 10 September 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, S‘>pt, 6. Sir Hercules Robinson has succeeded Mr Murray as director of the Bank of New Zealand.

The Queen Charlotte Sound Goldmining Company of New Zealand, which was announced in June last with a capital of £136,000, has not been floated. The New Zealand Antimony .Company, will obtain additional capital land work the mine themselves. £ISOO to £IOOO has twice been laid on Searle winning the championship. Six to four is still enquired for, but the best offer is now five to four on. Crane, a Sydney sportsman, has backed Searle for £I6OO at 8 to 2 on. Thompson, the well-known bookmaker, is offering 10 to Bbn the Clarence river man. The final deposit hap been made by both men, ,

The Shaw Seville and Albion Company have declared a dividend of 5 per cent,

The Kight Hon, Henry Chaplin, M.P. for Sleaford, who in the early part of last month was appointed Minister of Agriculture, takes a seat in the Cabinet. The Mauricewood colliery,,Edinburgh, has caught fire, and sixty miners hare been entombed. : There is little hope entertained of recovering the man. Bottomley Firth, the well-known Radical politician, is dead. Sept. 7. It is reported that a mutiny has taken place on board H.M.S. Acorn, now lying at San Francisco, and that there have been many desertions. The Trades Congress have approved of the Eight Hours’ Bill for miners, and have adopted the principle of land nationalisation. They have also carried a resolution in favor of the payment of members of Parliament. All the men entombed in the Mauricewood Colliery, at Edinburgh, were suffocated, The Government of the Dominion claims £200,000 damages for the seizure of sealers in Behring Sea, In the sculling championship which is to be decided on Monday Searle will use a boat built by Claspar. O’Connor rows in a boat supplied by Swaddel!. Both men are in splendid condition and confident of victory. The Sportsman’s Cop has been added to the stakes. Burns, the Socialist, announces that be will contest tbe Dundee eeat at the next election.

H.M.S. Eepiugle has hoisted the British flag on Humphrey Island, Tiesson Island, and the Manlike group. It is stated that a man named Piiree, a plasterer, a native of Bn'xham, lower Devon, whose address is at present unknown, is entitled to the sum of £1,400,000 by the death of a clergyman in Sydney, Peter Jackson and Jem Smith, the pugilists, are arranging a fight. Paris, Sept. 5.

Despite the efforts being made to prevent the return of General Boulanger, the Government declare that he is ineligible fcr election unless be sets the verdict aside by returning. The Prefects have been secretly directed to prevent the return of General Boulanger’s followers. Sent. 6.

General Boulanger has written to M, Tirard, claiming to be tried by courtmartial, Sept, 7. After creating a special court to secure General Boulanger being declared an outlaw, the .Government have been compelled, although be is absent, to accept bis nomination for a seat at the forthcoming general election ; also to permit placards favoring his views being posted. This result has created a good deal of excitement, and has led to dissension in the Cabinet, M. Tirard, the Premier, and M. Constan, Minister of the Interior, dispute the right of General Boulanger to contest a seat, Constantinople, Sept, 7. The Porte will regard a German attack on Bulgaria as a casus belli. Sofia, Sept, 6.

The Bulgarian troops have formed An entrenched camp at Dragoman, a town on the border of Servia. Pekin, Sapt, 6. The construction of the railway from Pekin to Hankow has been sanctioned. New York, Sept. 7 . General Legitime, ex-President of Hayti, has arrived hero.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, Sept. 6. The General Assembly last night passed a vote for the renewal of the San Francisco mail service. The iffect of tbo Chinese Restriction Act is exemplified by the fact that there have only been five arrivals of Chinese and no less than @CO departures during the past eight months. From June Ist to date 1965 persons arrived in thig colony from New Zealand, and about 500 returned. The Daily Telegraph says these figures aro startling for New Zealand, and if the other colonies show a similar properlion fbe regalt will not bo encouraging,

Sept. 8. Sailed •—Wakatipu, for Wellington. Atrived Rotpmahflna, .from Auckland, The bodies of all the men entombed at the Glebe Pit have now been recovered, Proctor’S\was the last that was taken ont‘ of jthe mine yesterday. A tin which belonged to one of the men found; last week, had these words scratched on It:—.“ Died from starvation, after living seven days.”

Melbourne, Sept. 6 . Sir James Lorirner, late Minister of Defence, is dead. ' ~ The amount of gold raised in the colony to date is sifty million ounces,, The Government geologist estimates that the mines will still yield eighty million ounces more.

A serious accident occurred on the Gippsland railway line. A passenger train dashed into a goods train and both engines were telescoped. The stoker of the passenger train was badly hurt and 12 passengers were injured. Brisbane, Sept. 7. An artesian water supply giying a million gallons daily has been struck at Oharlesville, It is believed to be the largest artesian supply in the world. Perth, Sept. 7.

Major-General Edwards states that it is unlikely the Imperial Government will take over the defence of Albany. The Australians will have to provide for it themselves. He thinks the Australian colonies will not establish a practical system of defence without federation, and suggests that the Federal Council should legislate on military matters.