TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1960, 24 October 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Oct; 20. ; The, R.M,S. Tongftriro sai/ed , froc [Plymouth yesterday for Wellington vi( Tenoriffe,. Cape of' Good Hope* am Hobart;. ! Three thousand miners employed it Jhe Marquis of Londonderry’sfDurhan holieries have struck for shorterihours Fifteen thousand more threaten to strik< unless better terms are conceded by tb< owners. . In contrast to Sir Andrew Olarke’f opinion of the Zalinski dynamite gun the naval officers delegated to enquire Into its merits report that it is useless for naval warfare owing to the intricacy pf the .mechanism which is rendered necessary to ensure the safety of those working the guns; ' Oct. 21. . The New Zealand per cent conversion loan is now quoted at a premium of per cent, i The Tenants’ League Convention will hold its meeting, which has been postponed from the date originally fixed, at Thurles. Twenty-eight priests are ex officio members. Burns is organising the railway employes. Severe gales have been experienced in the west of England. Two steamers named the Westpoole and Aurora hsye been wrecked at Ilfracombe, in Bristol Channel Ibe supposed case of leprosy, which has been reported at Brentwood in is occasioning considerable discussion. . Oct, 22. Sir Saul Samuel is negotiating with English financiers with a view to developing the iron and coal, resources of New South Wales. Burns has abandoned the idea of visiting Australia. The Bishop of Limerick has forbidden be priests in bis diocese to grant ihsolntion to supporters of the Flan of Campaign.

It is understood that Mr Gladstone intends to attack the Welsh Church and Lord Salisbury’s foreign policy. Freights have been raised 2s 6d per ton.

The trial of the murderers, of Deputy Inspector Martin, who was killed at Gweedore on the 3rd February, while endeavoring to arrest Father McFadden on a charge under the Crimes Act, is proceeding. Twelve persons have been indicted on the capital charge, and Father McFadden and nine others have been accused of complicity in the deed,

The New Zealand loan has advanced to a premium of 3 per cent. ! The AgentsrGeneral, after inspection, declare Luhrig’s coal divider a splendid snccesis and highly valuable for the colonies.

• Mr Lieht,, the sugar expert, states that the production of beet sugar up to the Ist of the mouth shows an increase of 10,000 lona.- He estimates that the tdtal European production of the campaign will show a surplus of 506,000 tons.

, The details of the interview between Malietoa and Mataafa, at which i the former declined to displace Mataafa, are being awaited both by the German and the American authorities. Florence St.. John, the well-known bhrlesque actress, has been robbed of £2OOO worth of jewels. . It is asserted that 1,000,000 dollars whPth of Mexican bonds have been stolen and sold ih London, ; Paris, Oct. 19. The’Turkish Ambassador at Paris has protested 'officially against the revival of Yoltaire’s play “ Mahomet ” at. the Theatre Francais, Oct. 21, Dr Sequard has informed the Academy ofi Medicine that be has discovered the microbe of smallpox. r President Carnot is visiting Algeria, .M. Eiffel, builder of the famous tower,, advocates bridging the English Channel in! preference to the tunnel scheme, Berlin, Oct. 31. A lunatic, named Leina fired at Prince William of Wortemburg, but missed. Home, Oct. 21. The Emperor and Empress of Germany have arrived at Monza,, a town of Lombardy, on a private visit to King Humbert. St. Petersburg, Oct. 22. The Kussian Imperial family have granted 400,000 roubles for the relief of the famine in Montenegro, Belgrade, Oct, 21. ' A futile attempt has been made to upset the train conveying Queen Natalie between this city and Jersey, in Koumania, Sofia, Oct. 21. Prince Ferdinand has arranged the Bulgarian loan of one million, at 6 per cent. : Athens, Oct. 22. The atrocities of the Turkish soldiers in Crete still continue, and the Greek Press protests against the Turkish Envoy being allowed to attend the Duke o( Sparta’s wedding.

| Tokio, Oct. 21. I Count O’Knme, the Japanese MinisUi Jof "Foreign Affairs, was murderously . in the street to-day, but received only slight wounds, .j His assailant successfully avoided capture, but subsequently committed suicide. | *■ Zanzibar, Oct. 21 . ! TheSuUan has promised to declare that all children born after January Ist jare freeborn, Chicago, Oct, 21. • Eleven out of the twelve jurors in the Cronin murder case, have At length been Selected, AUSTRALIAN CABLE. i --—— | Sydney, Oct. 21. | During a thunderstorm at Inverell, in the northern^ nanaed (Lock and bis wife were killed by lightning. i 00t.22. | The woman Batts has been committed tor trial on three charges of murder in (connection with the baby-farming rejcebtly discovered at Waverlyj' a suburb of Sydney. i Newcastle, Oct. 21. i Sailed—Janet Nicoll for Oamaru. I Melbourne, Oct. 21. : The man McKerron, who was arrested with his daughter on a charge of murdering the latter’s illegitimate child hnder peculiarly atrocious circumstances, has bien sentenced to 10 years Er manslaughter, and 1 the daughter to 12 months. A man named McFarlano was found dead in a water hole, where be had evidently been thrown after being murdered. There is no clue at present to Ibe murderer, Perth, Oct. 21. A man named Press has been sentenced to death for killing bis mate at Hall’s Creek, and burning the body.