TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1955, 12 October 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London - , Oct. 8. ; The Earl oft Zetland has been Bworn in as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Ten thousand colliers at Bolton have gone oat on strike, demanding an increase of wageß. Intelligence is received that the French steamer Geographique collided with the ship Minnie Swift in West Indian waters, and that both vessels were sunk and nine persons drowned, A passenger train on the London and North Western line collided with a goods train hear Manchester;JfFhree carriages were smashed,"* three passengers being killed and twelve injured.

Womon workers in the east of London are organising for the purpose of securing shorter hours and better pay.

Oct. 9. Freights to the colonies have been raised 2s 6d per ton. A committee representing the Australian section of the London Chamber of Commerce has been appointed to confer with shipowners upon the proposed amendments in bills of lading. The Daily News has urged the British Government to interfere for the purpose of putting a stop to the outrages in Crete.

Burns is organising a women's union, which already includes match, flower, and mantle makers.

Ringmaster won the Cambridge Trial Stakes easily. Holyhead breakwater has been injured daring a storm.

Oct. 10.

Mr Seymour Keay, Home Ruler, has been elected to the vacant seat of Elgin and Nairnshire in the House of Commons, rendered vacant; by the'death of Mr C. H, Anderson (Gladstone Liberal). Mr Keay secured a majority of 532 votes.

The schoolboy strikes are spreading to Cardiff, Middlesbrough, Edinburgh, Dundee and Barnett. The scholars have marched in procession, and in some instances teachers have been subjected to violence. At Edinburgh the scholars stoned the teachers. In a letter to Mr Thomas Sexton Mr Parhell advises him that the Tenants' League will be confined to a dbfeneive basis, and its operation will be limited to the protection of interests threatened by the landed proprietors, or coercion by Government, the protection of tenants against conspiracy of landlords, the! assertion of freedom of speech in Ire., land, arid the vindication of the right; of the tenants to the same facility i'or| combination as is allowed to trades anions, The following is the result otthe race; for the Fiddlepark Plate run at Newmarket yesterday : Signorina, 1 ; Lenora, 2 ; Golden Gate, 8. The Earl of Carnarvon, .speakißg.at Leeds, said he* hoped that Mr Balfour would carry out in fall his plan for higher'education in Ireland. It was impossible to secure the contentment ofi the Irish unless the priests were satis-! fied, He advocated non-intervention in the affairs of Europe as far as possible. England's interests were mainly those of her kith and kin and colonies. Riots have taken place among the gasmen at Bristol on account of the employment of non-union hands. Dalgety and Company, have declared adividend of 8 per cent. Lieatenant L. Young, New Zealand, officer, is dead. Berlin, Oct. 8. By a railway collision nearPosen four: passengers were killed and many injured.' Oot. 10.

The German army estimates do not provide for any increase in the number; of men, but 120,000,000 marks are required for new guns and ammunition. Constantinople, Oct. 9. It is reported that hundreds ofi Russians and Armenians, disguised asi pilgrims, have crossed the border of Turkey m Asia with the design of punishing the Khurds of Moussa Bey'si tribe for outrages committed on the Armenian population. Capetown, Oet. 8.

The editors of two papers published; in the Transvaal have been arrested onj a charge of treason, for having demanded! exteosire reforms io the administration, of the country, failing which they ad- i voeated a revolution. Both editors are 5 EnglißhmeD, Rio Janeiro, Oct. 8.

The steamer Earnmoor, bound from, Baltimore here, foundered at sea and 28 of the passengers and crew were drowned. The Earnmoor was a screw steamer of; 1320 tons. Chicago, Oct. 10. Eighly jurors have been selected from; whom a panel will be obtained to try the murderers of Dr Cronio.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, Oct. 9. The Government 1 do not intend to; send a Minister to represent this colony at the New Zealand exhibition. The Rabbit iCommission have commenced their final nsession, when reports: on the result of the various remedies used to exterminate the pest will be considered.

Oct. 10.

In the House of Assembly, last night, 1 Mr W. P., Crick, Member for West; Macquarrie, wbowas placed under arrest for contempt during a recent stonewall] made ; an unqualified apology, and; intimated his intention of resigning his seat in orner to give his constituents ani opportunity of renewing their confidence! in him or otherwise.

Parliament has been prorogued. Sailed Hauroto, for Auckland,; Major-General Edwards is a passenger by her, Dix, the broker who caused a rush on Round Hill silver shares and disappeared, has turned up. It appears' that - he was seized with a panic on' beholding the effects of his action, and in addition was suffering from the use of morphia. He explained that a leading speculator on the Exchange instructed him to engineer a boom in Round Hill stock, but the latter denied it, The affair has caused quite a sensation in the city,

Brisbane, Oot. 9.

A mysterious robbery has taken plaoe at the Queensland National Bank; nearly £4OOO in notes and gold is missing.

Albany, Oot. 9.

Arrived Liguria, from Plymouth. Passengers for New Zealand, Mr and Mrs O'Neil, Messrs Martyn, Tralley, Wilson, and Woodhouse. Hobart, Oct. 9.

The Ruapehu, which arrived here yesterday, has 46 emigrants for New Ply. mouth.