TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1991, 7 January 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Jan. 3

The Rev. Charles Clarke is a passenger to Ausiralia by the steamer Austral. , I A compositor, who at a meeting in Hyde Park advocated the murder of the chairman of the Metropolitan Gas Company, has been committed for trial. The divorce proceedings instituted by CaptaioJO’Shea against Mr Parnell, wi 1 be heard at Easter. The report that Mr Parnell intended to resign his seat in the House of Commons is without foundation. Sadler, ex-champion sculler of England, is dead. Jan. 4. The Times’ Constantinople correspondent telegraphs that Ohakir Pasha, Governor of Crete, will succeed Muktar Pasha as Turkish High Commissioner in Egypt. Muktar Pasha proceeds to Kurdestan to institute reforms there favorable to the Armenians. Wesfgarth’s Circular urges Victoria to defer borrowing even a third of the amount originally proposed. Benzon, the Jubilee Piunger, who was recently adjudicated a bankrupt, is absent in Morocco and refuses to attend the bankruptcy proceedings. 'lbe authorities threaten to issue a warrant for bis arrest. H.M.S. Warspite, 10 guns, 8400 tons, replaces H.M.S. Swiftsure on the Pacific Station. Slsvin announces that he will make an early retirement from the ring. Lisbon, Jin, 3. King Carlos in his speech at the opening of the Cortes said that Portugal bad the greatest claims on Africa of any nation. Brussels, Jan, 2. It is the Palace of Laeken, two miles from this city, which has been burned, The damage is estimated at 10,000,000 francs (£400,000.) Rome, Jan. 4.

At a Consistory of Cardinals His Holiness the Pope delivered an allocution contrasting the tolerance of the Church iu other countries with the bitter and increasing persecution to which they were subjected by Ihe Italian Government. His Holiness said the claims put forth for the restoration of the temporal power were not due to human motives, but were necessary for the maintenance of the Catholic Faith. Constantinople, Jan, 4. The Porte has issued a. proclamation prohibiting trade in black slaves. St. Petersburg!, Jan. S.

Thirty-two officers have been arrested on a charge of conspiracy to abolish autocracy. General Ignatieff is in a critical condition, Warsaw, Jan. 4. A Nihilist chief named Dierra has been arrested in this city. In bis possession were found pamphlets and letters involving soma of the officers of the army. Aden, Jan. 2. Two French missionaries have been murdered by order of the button of Amphillia, a district on the African Red Sea coast, Hong-Konu, Jan. 4. Severe fighting has taken place at Formosa, during which 100 Chinese troops and 400 natives were killed. Durban, Jan. 5. The Portuguese have again seized ibe British African lakes steamer, and have lowered the British flag. Mr H. H, Johnston, British Consul at the Portuguese port of Mozambique, is organising the Natives of Nyassaland to assist the Makalos and Karagos in repelling the Portuguese, who are concentrating their forces at Katanga. It is believed that fighting has already begun, Rio dk Janeiro, Jan, 2. Martial law has been proclaimed throughout Brazil, and all persons suspected of hostility to the Government are instantly shot. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Jan. 3. The German warship Sophie has arrived here from Samoa, en route for Chinese waters, where she will be stationed.

Nearly six hundred passengers left here yesterday by steamers bound for New Zealand.

Mr Eady, Chief Railway Commissioner, sails for New Zealand on Monday. A hundred and thirty-dwo thousand pounds of butter were shipped to London , to-day, The federation conference will bo held in Melbourne next month. A sensational accident occurred this evening. An old three-storey hotel in Lower George street, known as the Volunteer Artillery, suddenly collapsed, end fell into the street. Those who happened to be in the lower floor escaped unhurt, I here vfere only a few people upstairs, and among these was a Miss Hogan, who was killed, and it is feared at present that others algo have lost their lire?.,

Jan. 5, The body of Mr Cooke, a sol inter, has been discovered among the debris of the hotel which collapsed on Friday night, he having been suffocated. 'ibe missionary schooner John Williams has arrived from the Islands, and reports that exceptionally severe weather has been experienced there. More wrecks have taken place than for the past thirty-four years, and in some instances the wreckage could; not be indi-ntified, nor were there any signs of the crews. Melbourne, Jan. 3. Sailed Mararoa, for Bluff. The Victorian team of riflemen, who take part in the Exhibition Meeting at Dunedin, are passengers by her. The Broken Hill proprietary have resolved to increase the number of shares to 800.00 C by reducing the nominal value of each share from £2 to Bs. The Australasian draws a contrast between New Zealand and Victoria in agricultural and pastoral matters to the advantage of the former, and compliments New Zealand upon her efforts in the cause of education. Arrived—Te Anau. Brisbane, Jan. 3.

Two school teachers named Clayton and Smith were drowned by a boat accident in Kappel Bay. Jan. 4.

An extraordinary heavy rainfall has been experienced in the North. At Cardwell, about 950 miles north of here, 49 inches of rain were registered in nine days. The outlook is serious, and it is anticipated that enormous damage has been done. From Normanton several fatalities are reported, Hobart, Jan. 8.

Rev. Dr W. W. Nicholson, founder of the Presbyterian Church in Tasmania, aged 96, is dead,