TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1988, 31 December 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS .

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Dec. 27. Mr Licht, sugar expert, estimates that the yield of the European beet crop will give a surplus of 681,000 tons. The production during the last three months was 410,000 tons in excess of the same period last year. The Czar of Russia and the King of Portugal ate suffering from influenza. The Czar has had a bad attack, this being the second one. Twenty per cent of the Russian army is affected. The trade in Vienna and some of the German towns has been partly paralysed ; many schools and universities have been closed. Those cases which have occurred in England ar« doubtful and of a mild nature. , v -ij

Much indignation is expressed at the recent msssaore of political prisoners in Siberia, and the cruel treatment to which they are subjected.

Unless the Senate of the United States settles the fisheries question by February England will abrogate the modus vivendi and recur to the treaty of 1818.

The Daily Chronicle condemns the apathy displayed by the Marquis of Salisbury in not insisting on France giving a more explicit explanation as to the reasons which led to the expulsion of the Rev. Mr Jones, a missionary, from Mare Island. Dec. 28, The Blue Spur Minnig Company will be reconstructed. It is intended to take proceedings against Hume Webster to recover the working capital guaranteed by him. Mr Abington, ba ieving Slavin to be really the winner of the fight with Smith, has Announced his intention of giving the £SOO to him. The members of the Pelican Club offer a prize of £IOOO, for a glove fight between Peter Jackson and P. F. Slavin, the Australian pugilists. Doctor Charles Mackay, the wellknown literateur , aged 75 years, is dead. The Times supports the appointment of a commission to enquire into the expulsion of the Rev, Mr Jones by the French from Mare. The Great Powers have refused to acknowledge any communication from Brazil until the National Assembly has had an opportunity of confirming the establishment of the Republic. The mortality in Paris from the indirect results of influenza is higher than during the epidemic of cholera, Intelligence is received hero that Emin Bey has suffered a severe relapse. Captain O’Shea is petitioning for a divorce on the ground of Parnell’s adultery with his wife. The death is anaonneed of the Empress of Brazil, who was recently deposed from the throne. Influenza and heart disease was the cause.

; :Influenza is spreading in America, Lisbon, Dec. 28, Prince Carlos has’ been proclaimed King of Portugal with an ovation. Paris, Dec. 27.

Influenza continues to spread throughout the eity, and six per cent of those attacked have succumbed to the disease.

It is thought probable tint Franca will assent to the Egyptian conversion scheme, provided it is coupled with evacuation by the British, The demands have been reiterated that the Egyptian army shall be increased and the English troops reduced. Dec. 2S. Oue-tbird of the population' of the city is affected with influenza,

The colonial cougress will meet hero next month to discuss the question of Riffiian and Annamite convicts being introduced to New Caledonia. The proposal to lay a cable between New Caledonia and Australia, and the development of relations between New Caledonia and the New Hebrides, will also be discussed. Cadiz, Dec. 27. Further trials were made to-day ia the bay with the French submarine tor-

pedo boat, when the vessel made its reappearance four miles from the spot where it vanished, Vienna, Dec. 27. Count Karolyi is dead. Palmbro, Dec. 28. Severe earthquakes have been experienced in Sicily, and several fatalities are reported. Athens, Dec. 28. The Turks are forcing the Cretans to sign a manorial that they are contented with the present Governor. Calcutta, Dec. 27. Owing, it is said, to Russian intrigues the Afghans on the fronlier are deyeloping a feeling of discontent with the British. It is reported that they are urging rebellion. The Parsees and Mahomedans decline to be represented at the approaching Indian national conference, Hong-Kong, Dec. 27. There is much discontent in China and a prospect of another famine, "Zanzibar, Dec. 27.

Stanley sails for Egypt on January I3lb. Emin Pasha expects to follow towards the end of (he month.

Durban, Dec. 27. Information has been received here that Mr Johnston, British Agent in the Zambesi country, is annexing Cairo, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. Rio db Janeiro, Dec. 27. The political offenders are being tried under martial law, The members of the aristocracy are menaced. Foreigners here are protesting against enforced naturalisation os attempted to be made under the new government, end there is every indication of a fresh rising. Washington, Dec, 27. A serious fracas between negroes and whites is reported from Georgia. New York, Dec. 28. During a drunken riot at Jessop, in Georgia, twenty negroes afid two whites -were killed. I AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Dec. 27. i Sailed—Hauroto, for Wellington, Dec. 28. Sailed—Waibora, for Wellington, Hobart, Dec. 27. ; A gazette issued by the Tasmanian Government in October, 1880, projclaimed Macquarrie Islands, which it is reported the Hinemoa has been sent by the Now Zealand Government to annex* a dependency of Tasmania. The Aorangi had one case of scarlet fever on board. The patient has been landed,