TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2000, 28 January 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Jan. 24. Mr Newton, the solicitor who was charged with conspiracy in connection with the recent West End scandals, has been committed for trial. Mr Walker, the Victorian Commissioner st the Paris Exhibition, has died at Eastbourne.

In a letter to. The Press Mr Gladstone expresses bis opinion that the action of Sir H, Parkes regarding federation is apparently judicious, but that ignorance of details prevents him (Mr Gladstone) from pronouncing any positive opinion on the merits of the case. He soys that doubtless Australia will work its way to a just conclusion. In the course of an article on the Ssmoan treaty The Times says that its adoption will secure to England only a fair field and no favor in Samoa.

Fierce gales are raging in the southwest of England. The Sporisman’s fund for Slavin is closed. The total amount is £440, Jem Mice is training for a boxing match with Mitchell tor £IOCO. Jan. 25, The first train crossed tho Forth Bridge to-day. The Morning Post snys that the d»y has departed when the colonies could be considered simply British possessions. One free people cannot be possessed by another, though they may be united by political bonds. Mr Talbot, M.P., who recently died at the age of 87, left properly valued at £5,000,000. The Earl of Galloway has been again charged with molesting girls. The cage was dismissed.

The Executive are relaxing the severity of the Crimes Act in counties where violence and organised resistance are declining. The Admiralty have offered to hand over the cruiser Shah to New South Wales to replace tho Vernon training ship at Sydney, provided the colony defray the expense of fitting out the Shah, which would probablv cost £220,000.

Benzon’s family offered to refund the proceeds of the cheque stated to have been forged by Ernest Beozen, but so far nil efforts to settle the matter have failed, and the jubilee plunger is stilt in custody, It is stated that he has admitted the forgery, alleging that he was badly in want of the money to pay a gambling debt. Five judges are laid up with influenza.

Sir Henry Manisty, Judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen’s Bench Division), is prostrated by an attack of paralysis.

The Statist considers that the circumstances of the impending Victorian loan are so damaging to the Victorian Treasury that investors will be justified in requiring a guarantee against the recurrence of the unpardonable recklessness of tho Government. Tha paper attacks Mr Gillies, tho Treasury officials, Mr Deakin, and the Railway Commissioners, and denounces wb&t it characterises the bogus surplus, The system of bonuses also comes in for condemnation. The article declares that tba audit of agency accounts is insufficient.

The barque Thorn, bound from Liverpool to Adelaide, went ashore in the early morning in Douglas Bay, Isle of Man, and became a total wreck. A lifeboat pot off from shone and effected the rescue of sixteen of the crew and two passengers.

It is considered probable that the Western Australian Constitution Bill will be reintroduced in the House of Commons without amendment. Lord Lord Enuteford has iqfornaed Sir Wm. Robinson that in his opinion it will be inadvisable tor him to take any active part in furthering the Bill. Dublin, Jan. 23.

The Local Board has dissolved the Cork Guardians on the ground that tho members ot the council were guilty of disloyally.

Madrid, Jan. 25. The Cortes have read the Universal Suffrage Bill a first time, Paris, Jan. 23. Ihe leaders of ibo BonJangist party are instituting an anti-Jewish campaign in France, Jan, 24. In the Chamber of Deputies last night M. Boulanger called Deputy Martineau a traitor, M. Martineau has tent M. Boulanger a challenge. Edward Rothschild and the Marquis de Jouy fought a duel to-day, in which the former was wounded. Bebun, Jan. 23. The strike of coal miners at Charleroi has terminated, Jan. 25.

The Emperor William has issued an edict, ordering the discontinuance of duelling in the army, ami threatening challengers with expulsion. The Reichstag rejected the Socialists Bill when tha final stage was reached, by & majority of seventy-one. Tho session is dow clogedj

Athens, Jan. 25. The Greek reserve forces hove been ordered to be mobilised in March next. I» is believed that this step is taken io consequence of the gloomy outlook in Crete. Zanzibar, Jsri, 24. A French priest at Mombosa reports that he met the expedition under Dr Peters at Snbski, all well. The party were awaiting the arrival of stores thors. The date of the meeting is not stated. New York', Jah. 28. Eight passenger trains were snowed up in Oregon. The occupants suffered severe privations and several died of cold and hunger. The American Press complain that the views of Germany dominate the Samoan Convention Treaty, and that Malietoa is only to bo the figure-head at Samoa, One man was killed and another seriously injured by coming into contact with an electric light wire.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE, Melbourne, Jan. 24. Two miners named Couch and Davis have been arrested at Sandhurst for trying to steal the plates from a quartz crashing battery, Each confessed, implicating the other in the murder of the night watchman named Trevcthick, The heat daring the past ten days has been unprecedented} the thermometer has been higher than for 15 years. Jan. 25. Mr Andrew Gowan has issued a writ against Mr Horsfall, claiming £25,000 damages for alleged Ijbel, contained in a

pamphlet respecting a dispute among tho director# of Goldsbrongb, Mort and Company. Sir G. Berry has cabled that there is no known specific remedy for influenza. It ia chiefly fatal to old and weak-cheated people, Sydney, Jan. 24. Moneignor Vidal, of Fiji, is appealing for funds in England in aid of Roman

Catholic missions in the Islands, and is credited with stating that the Wesleyan body sends large sums annually to Pij l , and also despatches a great many missionaries to the Islands, but more as traders then ministers of: God. Tbo Wesleyan Conference warmly combatted this statement, and resolved to ask Monsignor Vidal whether it ip true that he made such an assertion.

Tha Minister for Lauds proposes next session to introduce new legislation dealing with the rabbit question. It is not known what form such legislation will take, but the Minister is personally in favor of encouraging pastoralietts to erect rabbit proof wire fencing.

The Government of New Caledonia have sent an officer to Sydney and Melbourne to endeavor to arrange the formation of a syndicate to construct a dock at Noumea, and to lay a cable between New Caledonia to Australia.