TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1942, 12 September 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Sept. 8 . The Marquis of Hartington, speaking in Yorkshire, said that if the result of the next general election was the return of a Home Rule majority, the Unionists would comjpel the country to reconsider the question, and use every resource the Constitution allowed to prevent so great a change being parried ly made. Sept. 9.

The police made a raid on the Newmarket Club, and arrested forty-seven ef the inmates. Twenty-seven bodies have been recovered from the Mauricewood colliery, near Edinburgh. The Rev, 0. H, Spurgeon is in failing health, It is reported that Mr MacDonald, late manager of the Times, has been engaged to manage a Melbourne paper. In a five-mile bicycle race at Maida Vale Ground, Paddington, James beat W, Wood, covering the distance in 15min 87|eeo. 1 Sept. 10.

Owing to pressure from England and Italy the Sultan of Turkey has consented to .the appointment of a Special Council to enqnire into and alleviate the complaints from Armenia. Paris, Sept. 9. General Boulanger’s programme is entire freetrade, abolition of bank monopoly, and State aid to industry. These reforms include the colonies, with a view navigation. French yignerons, assisted by the papers, are attacking the Australian vintages, Brussels, Sept, 7.

The explosion of the cartridge factory at Antwerp was heard at Ghent, over 80 miles away, and the flames were visible in this city. A panic ensued after the explosion and many of the soldiers who were preserving order Were suffocated. The firemen were powerless to control the conflagration which broke out, and five acres of buildings were destroyed. The cathedral windows were all smashed, and the spire endangered, Vienna, Sept. 10.

The Wiener Zietung states that the Czar has notified the Emperor of Germany of the existence of on agreement between Russia and Franco, Zanzibar, Sept, 9.

Captain Wissman is about to set out with a force of two thousand men to punish Npwapa.

Ottawa, Sept. 8. Brodie swam the Niagara rapids unhurt.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, Sept. 9. The funeral of the late Mr Francis Ormond, M.L.0., took place yesterday. There was an immense cortege. Sydney, Sept, 9. William Dobell and two boys have been murdered by natives at the Solomon Islands. Dobell’s brother was murdered recently.

Arrived—American barque Hesper, from Puget Sound. She reports that the barque Garston, bound from Sydney to San Francisco, has been wrecked at Staarbuck Island. The chief officer and twenty of the crew reached Humfrey Island, . The captain of the Hesper offered to bring ten of the men on to Sydney, and waited for 14 boars for that purpose, bnt the men apparently decided not to separate. The captain and nine of the crew are missing. Sept, 10.

An extraordinary hot day was experienced throughout Geelong yesterday. It was the hottest day which has occurred in the month of September for thirty years. Two armed men, near Orange, captured seven travellers, and, haring bound them, stole all their money and valuables. After a detention of two hours the travellers were released. One of the men has been arrested, Brisbane, Sept. 10. Feaful reports are coming to band of sickness at the Sndest Goldfields in New Guinea.