TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2006, 11 February 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

! ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Feb. 7. The minor charges against Benzon have been settled, and it is expected he will receive a light sentence on the ,charge of forgery. The Financial News deprecates the passing of (he Trust Funds Investment Bill in view of the lavish borrowing of the colonies end their possib'e separaiion from the Mother Country. A great sensation has been caused by the announcement of a German Imperial loan of 129,000,000 murks, to be issued on February 14ih.

Feb. 8

The third trial of the cruiser Barracouta proved a failure, the boiler exploding and injuring ten of the crew. Dr Tanner, member for Cork, has withdrawn his appeal against the sentence passed oo him for using threatening language to Mr Barry, member for Wexford, and has been bound over to keep the peace towards that gentleman. Charlie Mitchell and Jem Mace had a boxing contest for £IOOO. In the fourth round Mitchell won easily. It is reported that the Comte de Paris has abdicated in favor of the Due D'Orleans, who visited Paris in disguise. Lord Bartington has started on a visit to Egypt.

The Right Rev. Doctor Barry, formerly Bishop of bydney and now assistant Bishop of the See of Rochester, is opposing the colonial Divorce Bills The Daily Telegraph states that the Times Parnell Commission will report that it is impossible to exonerate the Paruellites from the charge of not trying to separate political societies from others avowing crime and outrage. The French Government support the Berne Convention.

Sir Elliot C. Bovill, Chief Justice of Cyprus, has been selected to succeed the Hon. A. C. Onslow, as Chief Justice of Western Australia. It is officially announced that the Murqois of Saisbury is suffering from weakness, the result of influenza. Paris, Feb. 6. trance next year will build ten ironclads. The cruiser Victoiious, 4530 tons, 13 guns, replaces the Nubordin as the flagship on the Pacific station.

.farisiau bankers are remitting a hundred thousand sovereigns to Portugal.

The directors of the Societies Des Metaux and Comptoir Des Corapte are to be prosecuted for declaring fictitious dividends. M. Secretan, manager of the Societie, has also been indicted. Constantinople, Feb. 6. Sir W. A.White, British Ambassador to Turkey, has protested against the acquittal of Moussa Bey, the Khurdish chieftain, charged with inhuman atrocities in Armenia.

Feb. 7, Ihe Powers have warned Greece that if she interferes in the Cretan dispute she must submit to the consequences. Athens, Feb, 7. Greece is preparing to take action in the Cretan question.

Sofia, Feb. 6. The prefect of police and the leading municipal officers have been arrested in connection with the plot against Prince Ferdinand.

T . Feb. 7. It is reported that the Bulgarian conspirators intend to recal Prince A'exander, or petition the Czar to nominate a ruler for the country, Washington, Feb. 6. The Senate of the United States has ratified tbe fcjamoan convention by 38 to 12.

A Congress of the American States is to be held to consider the proposal to adopt silver coins common to all American nations.

Feb. 7. Dynamite has been discovered in the capitol, but was removed before it exploded.

Feb. 8. Tbe National Conyention ot blacks at Washington protest against the unjust treatment of the negroes Dinizulu, Undobuko, and Ishingaam, exiled at St! Helen.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Stdnev, Feb. 7. Sailed—Ringarooma. Arrived—Wakatipu, from Wellington,

The Inspector-General of Police here says that the statement of the Paris Le lemps that only 32 convicts have escaped from New Caledonia during the last five years is ridiculous, for it is well known to the police that during that period the escapees numbered many hundreds The majority of them may not perhaps have escaped from immediate custody, but they get away from the islands by availing themselves of certain liberties granted to them.

A tram motor while runuiug to .Botany Bay ibis morning capsized. The driver, a mati named Logan, way terribly injured, beiug literally crushed to death under the boiler. The fireman had a narrow egcape.

Feb. 9, Arrived—Alameda and Wairarapo, from Auckland. Melbourne, Feb. 7. The average heat during January was five degrees higher than any month since the records have been kspt, and was quite unparalleled throughout Australia. Adelaide, Feb, 7. AH the captains in the militia have resigned their commissions as a proiest against the appointment of Major — — to the command of the third battalion. Eobart, Feb. 8. The reports re the harvest returns are most unfavorable.