TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1980, 10 December 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Dec. 5 . The Departmental Committee on the question of the investment of trust funds in colonial securities will re-assemble on the 10th instant, when the Bill dealing with the subject will be considered. It is expected that the Bill, which is already drafted, will meet with the approval of the Chancellor of (he Exchequer. The provision with reference to dividends is identical with the provision contained in the Bill prepared last year by Sir Francis Dillon Bell. "THTTBTII farther provides that legal procedure in respect to operating in colonial stocks shall be the same as that prescribed in dealing with Imperial stocks. Oscar Dickenson an influential Gothenberg merchant, offers to defray the expenses of an expedition to the North Pole. He proposes that the ex. pedition should be under the leadership of Dr Frithjof Nansen, who returned to Europe from a journey across the inland ice of Greenland from east to west, in June last. The owners of the steamer Glenooe, which came into collision with the barque Largo Bay in the English Channel on the 4th February last, appealed against the decision of Jnstice Sir Charles Butt of the Admiralty Division, that the col. lision was due to carelessness on the part of the officers of the Glencoe, The appeal was heard yesterday and was dismissed. Ihe Largo Bay was'bound for Auckland when the collision occurred.

Speaking last night at Edinburgh, to an audience of 10,000 persons, Mr Balfour, the Irish Secretary, indicated the passage of the Crimes ‘Act, and said that Mr Gladstone bad encouraged crime in Ireland, Bubear, the English oarsman, sailed for Australia per B.M.S. Oroya yesterday. Dec. 8. The absence of Mr Parnell from recent Nationalist meetings is causing considerable comment throughout Ireland, especially as his whereabouts at present are unknown to the public. The Right Hon. Charles T. Ritchie, President of the Local Government Board, has issued a circular to the local governing bodies requesting them to secure a thorough system of drainage in connection with the dwellings of the poor of London, The barque British Insurance, which left Hamburg for Sydney on September 21st, has been burnt at sea. The crew took to the boats, and one of these containing six men is missing. Berlin, Dec, 6. Prince Bismarck is recovering from bis recent illness. Dec. 8. The Kolneschi Zietnng states (hat (he Czar has requested his brother Vladimir, who visits Paris, to dispdl any doubts that may exist in France concerning his recent visit to Berlin, Constantinople, Deo. 6. The Saltan will visit Berlin, Vienna, and St. Petersburg, next year. Zanzibar, Dec. 4.

Emin Bey met with a serious accident at Bagamayo. Being near-sighted he did not observe that a window in the room was open, and he walked through it, He fell a considerable distance to the ground, and fractured his skull. It is feared that the accident will result fatally, though Stanley’s doctor hopes to be able to save bis life. It is expected that the patient if he survives will have to remain quietly in his present quarters for at least ten days. Dec. 7. Stanley has arrived here. Ho says that E}min Boy mistook the parapet and fell a distance of twenty feet, receiving internal injuries. The lost information reports him to be slightly better.

New York, Dec. 6. The death is announced of Jefferson Davis, at Beauvoir, Mississippi. Washington, Dec. 5. Mr William Wisdom, secretary to the Treasury, proposes to repeal that portion of the Bland Act under which the coinage of silver is restricted to not less than two million dollars monthly. He suggests that treasury notes should be issued against the deposits of silver bullion, payable on demand at the market rate of silver, AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Dec. 6, Mr W, T. Best opens the grand organ recently imnorted for the Centennial Hall. Dec, 7, Information has been received here that the schooner Thistle while at the Howe group was boarded by officers irom the German warship Alexandrine and warned against trading in German territory, Admiral Scott, who is in charge of the Australian station, is making inquiries into the matter. Sailed—Jubilee and Hauroto for Wellington, :

Melbourne, Dec. 6. Severe hailstorms have been experienced in tho northern districts, and great damage to crops resulted, Dec. 7. The stewards of the Y.R. Club have virtually decided to increase the added money to the,Melbourne Cup to £IO,OOO. Dec. 8, Mr H. E. Searle, the champion sculler of the world' who has heed' suffering from typhoid fever, had a relapse yesterday morning. Late last night peritonitis supervened,J and, his medical advisers reportjthat his condition is liopeless. The aiews of his-serious caused a sensation throughout Australia, and sympathy with the patient and his relalives is universal. Adelaide, Dec, 6. The Government have withdrawn the Divorce Bill, and Parliament has been prorogued. Hobart, Dec. 7. It is understood that a conference to discuss the question of federation will meet here in the last week of January,