TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1994, 14 January 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Jan, 9. Tbo Americans in London intend to entertain H. M. Stanley at a banquet on bis arrival. They will present him with a silken American flag, and a massive silver shield, the latter pourtraying his most notab!" exploits. Hie influenza expidemic has now spread to the Government offices, public institutions, club*, banks, schools, and barracks. A few of the provincial towns remain unaffected,

Judge Nelligan, Recorder of Derry, has retired from the Royal Commission on Irish land, appointed in 1886.. He disagree with tbo excessive rents fixed in order to assist landlords when the question of purchase ultimately comes on.

It is stated in a Wellington letter to the Times that loyalists in New Zealand are denouncing Mr Dillon.

It is reported that recent explorations have resulted in the discovery of Cleopatra's tomb.

! It is announced that Mr Peter Reid, j a London merchant, is the donor of £IOO,OOO for establishing a convalescent home in tho city. Ibe donation was formerly attributed to the Duke of Westminster. The import of Australian wines during the year amounted to 307,000 gallons. Jan. 10. The case of Mr Nevrton, solicitor, charged with conspiracy in connection with (he West End scamlals,commenced to-day after several adjournments. The evidence disclosed the fact that Newton purchased three passage tickets for New York, and that his clerk, a man named Taylor, and his son accompanied a man named Hammond, who was notoriously connected with the scandal, to New York, The Yorkshire County Cricket Club report asserts that drinking is the cause of the decline of cricket in the country. The leading rowing c'ubs have presented a beautiful address to S-arle's parrnts, and proposed to institute an annual Searle memorial race on the Thamep, Tbe British museum has been lighted j with electricity, and will be kept open to j the public in the evenings. | Influenza is slowly abating through- j out England and on the Continent. It is intended to construct new docks adjacent to the Victoria docks at a cost of £1,000,000,

Roberts, the billiard champion, will pay a visit to the colonies some time between April and October, Tbe Earldom of Caithness has been allotted to Mr Sinclair, banker of Aberdeen,

Paris, J»n. 9. The mortality from influenza is decreasing.

The proposed conversion of the Egyptian debt has been suspended owing to the opposition of the French Government. Jan. 11. Intelligence is to band to the effect that the King of Dahomey has made a prisoner of the Governor of French Senegal. Troops are being despatched to rescue him and quell the rebellion, Marseilles, Jan. 9. The death rate from influenza has now reached cholera height. Berlin, Jan, 9.

The Empress Augusta expired peacefully, the immediate cause of death being paralysis of the lungs. When it was found that her Btrength was failing the Imperial Family was assembled, The Empress Frederick is at Rome, but she will be able to return in time for the funeral.

Prince Bismarck attempted to suppress the Emperor's alarmist speech to the garison of Berlin, Jan.ll. A Munich paper asserts that the Czar of Russia has recently suffered from severe fits of epilepsy to which he has been subject since he met with the railWay accident at Borki.

The funeral of the late Dowager Empress Augusta took place to-day with imposing ceremonies. The Duke of Edinburgh and tbo Empress Frederick were amongst those present, Prince Bismarck was absent, at the desire of the Emperor William, on account of his ill-health. Munich, Jan. 11. Dr Dollinger, who has obtained a

world wide notoriety by his persistent opposition to the decrees of the Vatican Council, has succumbed to an attack ot influenza, aged 91. St. Petersburg, Jan.' 9. Twenty different newspapers, in publishing the details of the recent Siberian

massacres, state that the Czar expects the officials to be severely punished. It is announced that the Czar is punishing the authors of the recent atrocities iu Siberia. Jan. 11, During a melee arising out of a police raid on a Nihilist club at Moscow, a young woman killed the chief officer of the secret, police of that city and after- * wardg committed gujcide.