TELEGRAMS

Temuka Leader, Issue 2004, 6 February 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Feb, 3. Mrs Langtry is in a precarious state of heallh.

Allpress, alias Armitage, who escaped after robbing the Commercial Bank at Melbourne, has been arrested in England and remanded. Sir H. James will lead the Unionists in the absence of Lord Hartington in Egypt. Mr Parnell has been ndvisfd that the American National League will postpone the meeting of the Convention pending the British elections in case of a dissolution.

It is understood that Edinburgh w'nl confer the freedom of the eilv on Mr H. M. Stanley.

It is stated that the British delegates of the Anti-Slavery Conference proposed ns an alternative the .right to search ships, and that each Power should use strict surveillance to prevent importation of arms for slave hunters in Africa,

The Marquis of Salisbury is improving in health, and to day presided at his first Cabinet meeting since the middle of December,

A fire broke out tn-day in the factory of Messrs James & Pike, mantlemakers, 59 Gresham street, doing damage to the extent of £40,000.

Allpress was charged with stealing £70,000 from the Commercial Bank, Melbourne. At first he denied bis identity, but afterwards admitted it.

Sir W. Buller and family have booked passages for Australia.

Mr Parnell has requested the American League to send over funds to help the Irish party to contest the general election,

A dispute between the Rugby Unions of England and Scotland, which has caused the international match to fall through for some years, has been settled. The Standard fears there will be a panic iu the money market if the banks do not make the rate of discount effective. It believes a 5 per cent rate in February will bring gold mlo the country from Now York and Rio Janeiro,

Mr H, iLabouchere, M,P., considers that Australia belongs to the colonists and promises to aid Sir T. Cockburn Campbell in every way to secure responsible government for Western Australia.

The cable constructed on behalf of the Eastern Extension Cable Company to be laid between Australia and New Zealand will be shipped at the end of the week.

Mrs Langtry is improving. Mr “ Abiugton ” has refused to resign from the Pelican Club. Berlin, Feb. 1 . Bismarck has resigned the position of Prussian Minister of Commerce.

St, Petersburg, Feb. 3. Russia is establishing a naval station on the .Baltic Sea, near Liban, at a cost of thirteen million roubles.

Constantinople, Feb. 1 . Kherdin Pasha (sic). ex-Vizier of Turkey, is dead,

Vienna, Feb. 3Doctor Boksi, an Austrian medical nun, has discovered on antiseptic for hydrophobia. It contains eucalyptus, Suakim, Feb. 3. Osman Digua is reported to be marching on Tokar.

Massowah, Feb, 3. the Italians have withdrawn from Adowa.

Capetown, Feb, 1

The New Zealand Shipping Company’s Ruapehu sailed for New Zealand to-dey.

New Tore, Feb, 3. By an explosion of gas in a colliery at Velkesbarre, Pennsylvania, two miners were killed outright and many fatally injured.

Feb. 4

In consequence of assistance from o'her banks the National Equitable will be able to make good its losses by the robbery of its securities.

Washington, Feb. 4. The residence of Mr Benjamin F. Tracy, Secretary of the Navy, was destroyed by fire. Mrs Tracy and her daughter were suffocated by smoke, Mr 1 racy was rescued in an unconscious slate. Two of the servants were burnt to death.

Ottawa, Feb, 1. Tiie Canadian League has passed a resolution dccliniug to be taxed for Imperial purposes unless Canadian products arc. favored in the British markets, and • approving of the establishment of an Imperial penny post. Feb. 3. O’Connor Los challenged Honlau, and defers his departure for Australia in order to complete his training in case the latter accepts.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Feb. 3 . Heavy gales have been raging alontr the whole eastern coast, with tremendous seas. A large ship is reported to bo dismasted off Gabo Island. Assistance has been sent. The steamer Riverina. \Vhich went ashore in the game locality, is a total wreck.

The Wesleyan Conference has approved of the retention of the class test, but will recommend the General Conference to make exceptions in special cases. Feb, 4. The vessel repotted to ba dismasted off Gabo Island turns out to be the Hally Bayley. A man named Masters to-day stuck up the Bank of New South Wales at Wellington. The teller grappled with the robber and secured his revolver. The man then bolted, but being hotly pursued and seeing little chance of escape from arrest committed suicide. The steamers which are arriving in port much overdue, report experiencing terrible weather along lire coas*. Adelaide, Feb, #. The ship Cambrian Princess, Captain Evans, 1350 tons, from Melbourne, is ashore at Wallaroo, and it is feared will become a total wreck, Hobart, Fob. 3, Arrived—S.S. Duke of Westminster, from London. She sailed for Auckland this day. Albany, Feb. S. Arrived Steamer Shanncn, from Plymouth. Passengers for New Zealand : Messrs Daly, Milner, and Stewart.