TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1948, 26 September 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS .

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, . Sept. 28. ■ H. B. Farnie, the well-known writer of extravaganzas and librettos, is dead. Sept. 24. The R.M.B. Kaikoura sailed from Plymouth for NewiZealand, yesterday. Wilkie Collins, the well-known novel- , ist, and Lady Holland, are dead. | Ihe' Egeria,, survey ship, has been ‘Commissioned for Australia. ■ ; It is, intended to convert the celebrated Pears’ soap business into a company, with a capital of £1,000,000, Mr .Balfour, the Irish Secretary,, denies that Government have any intention of founding and endowing a Catholic university in Dublin, H.M.S. Caracoa replaces the Opal on the Australian station. The date of Burns’ departure for Australia is Rncertain. The Lancashire cotton mills will stop Work for a fortnight for the purpose of defeating the operations of the “corner” in cotton. The Pope congratulated Cardinal. Manning on the success of his exertions to bring about a settlement of the strike, ’ It is stated that Russian Admiralty officers are bui'ding a large number of transports and torpedo boats quickly and secretly. It is believed that an expedition to the Bosphorus Is being planned. Father Dwyer, of Limerick, has been sentenced to five , months’ imprisonment for offences under the Crimes Act. i Madrid, Kept. 23. Spain has sent an ultimatum to Morocco and despatched a squadron to Tangiers. Hong-Kong, Sept. 24. The Chinese Privy Council are .discussing a proposal to expel all. Americans, in Chinese employ. Restrictions have jbeen imposed on American merchants and missionaries in the treaty ports. f Quebec, Sept. 24. Thirty-six people are known to have lost their lives by the fall of rock from Dufferin Terrace, and 26 more are still entombed. 1 It is feared that the rock slip at Dufferin Terrace will imperil the stability qf Quebec citadel. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. ! Sydney, Sept. 23. ' Arrived— I Tarawera, from Auckland. I An unfortunate boy named Clarke met with a horrible death, to-day, being crushed into a shapeless mass beneath 'the steam street roller, I Sept. 24. • Sailed—S.S. Lmdus, for Wellington. | The floods in Deniliquin district are |B.ubetding. i A letter jointly signed by Malietoa land Mataafa has been received from jSamao, sincerely thanking the people of Sydney for their contributions 'of fopfl-jn aid; of the distressed Samoans. I Newcastle, Sept.:24. i Sailed—Janet Nicoll, for Timara. Albany, Sept. 23. Arrived Orizaba. Passengers for New Zealand Messrs Sandstein, Henry, Lonargan, Doctor Hajnes and wife, and ithe Bishop of Dunedin.