TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1990, 4 January 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Jbd. 1. It is reported that the Qaeeu will visit Ireland in the summer. Lord Salisbury is suffering from a severe attack of influenza. The revenue indicates a surplus of five millions. An anonymous donor has given £1,000,000 (?) to tho fund for a con valescent home in connection with the London boppita!. Teemer, Haolnn, and Gaudaar have all laid claim to the sculling championship, banian suggests that Teeraer's proposition or a sweepstake should be adopted for the purpose of deciding the claims of the various aspirants, The Channel Tunnel Bill is being revived. The Government oppose the scheme. Lord Wolseley considers a bridge is preferable. Other gas employes and employers have decided to remaiu neutrsl in the quarrel between the Metropolitan Company and their men. ; The funeral of the late Robert Browning was an imposing ceremony. L)eau Bradley officiated, assisted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Hallam, the historian (?) and the poet laureate were among the pall-bearers, Mr Parnell, being desirous of accelerating the service of a wrUand the trial of the divorce case brought by Captain O'Shea, temporarily resigns the leadership of the Irish party, and Mr Justin McCarthy succeeds him, but it is expected that the counsels of Mr Dillon will predominate. The betting against Narellan and Kirkbam, Mr White's horses, for the Derby, is 500 to 30. Slavin denies that he has offered to make a deposit with Smith for a return match.

A match has been arranged between Sullivan and Peter Jackson for three thousand a side.

The return of Major Pinto from Zambesi improves the situation. It is expected his withdrawal will bo permanent,

The sailors' and firemen's unions have called out the crews and coalers on the Vessels in London.

The financial newspapers consider that the borrowing of Victoria is excessive, and the city is adverse even to the four millions about to be placed on the market this month,

Influenza h»s spread in England. It is an unusual sort, but the doctors doubt whether it is that form of the affliction known as Russian. The postmen at the West End are unable to perform their ordinary duties, Mr O'Connor, the editor of the Leinster Herald, has been arrested under the Crimes Act on a charge of writing articles intimidating tenants from takiDg farms from which tenants had been previously evicted. It is reported that the Duka of Westminster is donor of £IOO,OOO in aid of a convalescent home.

Lord Salisbury is improving, the fever having abated. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, speaking at Leamington, said that tho Zambesi dispute was merely a passing cloud, as Portugal was quite capable of satisfying all just demands. The mortality in Vienna and Madrid has been doubled by influenza.

The European Press, generally speak ing, anticipate a peaceful year.

Jan. 2. The widow of Admiral Fitzroy is dead,

Houston denies that he instigated Captain O'Shoa to institute the diyorce suit in which Mr Parnell is implicated. Tho citation has not yet been served. The Limerick Municipal Council have passed a vote of confidence in Mr Parnell.

The conversion of the Egyptian debt is being delayed in order to comply with the modifications demanded by the French Government, Lisbon, Jan, 1.

Prince Carlos is willing that America eh iould arbilrate between Eng 1 and and. 'Pbitugai.' Brussels, Jan. 1. Twenty thousand miners are on strike at Charleroi, and a poal famine is feared. Berlin, Jan. .1. An international congress of miners will be held here this year, Jan. 2. The palace at Lacken has been gutted by fire, The plate aud Gobelins tapestry were sayed. The Princess Clementine, mother of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, had a narrow escape, i'he collection of pictures and antiquities has been destroyed, Princess Clementine's governess was suffocated. The origin of the fire is suspected tc be incendiarism, .Rome, Jan. 2.

King Humbert, replying to a depute lion from the Lower Chamber, sajd that ponce was now sure, owing to the rapprochement batween Germany and Russia, but that until recently he would not have guaranteed iL.aiunity from war for a fortnight. St. Petersburg, Jan. 1.

It 18 allege! (bar. the Cssar has been prostrated by a shock produced by an

accidental extinction of the electric light in the palace. An extensive Nihilist plot has been discovered, arid several conspirators have been arrested in passages of the palace, where an officer'on guard'killed one. The reported poisoningof the Czar turns out to be untrue. . Erzeroum, Jan; 2. The Armenians are emigrating to Persia to escape from J urkish tyranny. Alexandria, Jan. 1. After paying expenses resulting from the abolishment of the corvee,'the surplus of the Conversion Loan will be ap plied to increasing the Egyptian army and facilitating the system of irrigation, /..Zanzibar, Jan. 1. Conflicting rumors ere current her* about the conduct of Dr Peters on bis latal expedition. Ii is alleged that he displaced British flags on the left bank of the Tana, and threw them into the river. San Salvador, Jan. 1. , Tho troops despatched by the Go-1

vernment have succeeded in crushing the rebellion at Cuscaltau under General Rivas, New York, Jan. 2. By a train leaving the rails in Ohio ten persons were killed and ten others injured. Ottawa, Jan. 2. O'Connor is willing to row any recognised Australian oarsman for the championship. lie suggests that a triple series of races should be arranged, on the Parramatta in April, in America in August, and on the lhames in October. * AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Jan. 1. The financial returns for the year show an increase in revenue of £126,000 over 1888. The principal increase is in railways, £117,000. Jan. 2. Sailed Jubilee and Hauroto, for Wellington ; Wairarapa, for Auckland. While cruising about harbor yesterday, a yacht capsized, and three youths named Goddard, and Neville were drowned.

In Tattr-rsall's Cup yesterday, a jockey uamed Wilkins was killed, owing to the horse he was riding falling on him. Melbourne, Jan. 1.

The Argus, in an eulogistic articlo, praises New Zealand as a health resort, Hobart, Jan. 2.

The revenue of the colony for 18*59 shows an increase of £38,00C, as compared with that of the preceding year,