TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2010, 20 February 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

London, Feb. 16

Father Igaatias is dead. Mr Parnell denounced the eviction o tenants who were willing to arbitrate.

Lord Knutsford writes that postage and telegraph rates will be reduced whenever the receipts become sufficient to reimburse the bulk of the cost.

Professor Tyndale, in a letter to the Press, characterises Mr Gladstone as the wickedest Englishman of this generation, and asserts (bat if he succeeds in Ireland the scenes of the Transvaal and Soudan will be repeated. __ Since the commencement of the trial of the Bishop of Lincoln for ritualistic practices, several clergymen holding high positions in the Church have gone over io the Church of Rome.

Ibe Right Reverend Dr Barry, formerly Bishop nf bydney, and now assistant Bishop to the See of Rochester, speaking at a Socialist debate, said that his experience in Australia led him to form the opinion that a high rale of wages retarded the development of a country.

Benzon was found guilty of forgery, and sentenced to three months’imprisonment.

The statement that Colonel Saunderson, M.P., was to undertake lecturing through America and Australia next autumn is not correct.

A girl of fifteen, who has been missing from Westham, a suburb of London, for a fortnight, has been found outraged and strangled in a cupboard in an empty bouse.

Lord Churchill has introduced a Bill giving to popularly elected District Councils control of licensing, subject to the payment of compensation.

Feb. 17, The Standard states that the money market has been over mortgaged to financial companies, but believes a panic will be averted if it keeps quiet, as the worst of the crisis is past, Atkins and Company, Australian merchants, St. Helen’s Place, are bankrupt, with liabilities £80,000; assets about the same.

It is understood Mr Gladstone is prepared to support the Bill to be introduced by Mr Campbell Bannerman to enable Catholics to hold the offices of Lord Chancellor and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

The story has been revived that Lord Loltus, when British Ambassador at Berlin, was instructed to offer the Fiji Islands to Germany,

Feb. 18. Mr H. Matthew, the Home Secretary, in replying to a deputation of miners, which waited on him to-day, urging bis support to the Eight Hours Bill, introduced by Mr R. Cunningham Graham, member for the North-western division of Lanarkshire, said that it was hopeless to expect the Government to restrict adult labour to eight hours.

Lisbon, Feb, 17. Serious republican agitations have oroken out in many parts of the country.

Le Comte de Freitas, one of the Councillors of State, proposes that a Commission be established, to delimitate English and , Portuguese territory in Southern Africa.

Paris, Feb. 17. Five invalidated supporters of General Boulanger have been” elected for the Paris constituencies.

Madame Melba (Mrs Armstrong), the Australian cantatrice, has.scored a brilliant success at Monte Carlo in Gounod’s “ Romeo and Juliet.”

Berlin, Feb. 17. The rescript of the Emperor William enjoins the officers of the array to refrain from illusing soldiers.

Feb. 18, It is reported that Prince Bismarck retires from the position ofnMinister of Foreign Affairs, of Commerce, , and Premier of Prussia, but will, retain the position of Chancellor of the German Empire.

w ... , Aden, Feb., 17. While on the voyage between Colombo and this port a passenger on board the P. and O. Company’s Victoria cornmited suicide by jumping overboard. A bo«t was immediately lowered, ; but owing to (he high sea which was ruaning sho capsized, and her thirteen occupants Wera thrown into the water. . The boatswain, quartermaster, and suicide were drowned,

Chicago, Feb, 16. During service in one of the churches in this city, a chorister was shot dead by i man whom he bad attempted to reclaim. The assassin, whilst in the act ot being arrested, committed suicide,

New York, Feb, 17. Two trains collided at Burneetown, Uhio, end three persons were killed. Washington, Feb. 17.

A lady having been outraged and murdered at Crawfords, Arkansas, the neighbors found the murderer, conveyed him to the scene of the tragedy, and out off bis arms, legs, and finally his head with an axe, ’