TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2014, 1 March 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Feb. 25. ' Emin b*B refused the Governorship’ of the Eastern Sondan.

The report of the Sweating Committee is of a eolorless character. Lord DunJ raven protests against it.

Mr Morley disclaims having mad any specific contract with the Irish party.

Feb. 26

Bishop Barry, formerly Primate ot Australia, was hooted and finally silenced at Lambeth for attacking socialism.

Ihe trial of the Bishop of Lincoln fcr ritualism 1 is finished. Judgment was reserved, '

Ihe Daily’ Telegraph eulogises the Colonial Divorce Bills as embodying improved morality. It considers the law of England should be reformed in the same direction.

It is reported that if the Australian colonies federate a member of the Royal family will be appointed the first Go-vernor-General. 'Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, in the course of an interview, said he was certain Australia would eventually separate from ; JEJpgland, : Mr Chamberlain appeals to Nonconformists to repudiate Mr Morley’s statement with regard to Dissenting schools.

Feb, 27. Socialists broke up the audience at Bishop Barry’s lecture on Christianity and Trade, in consequence of his remarks levelled at Socialism. Major Pinto has started for Lisbon via the Cape. He professes to be amazed at the excitement which his doings in Africa have caused, and asserts that the Makololos were the aggressors. Sir W. Lawson and Mr Caine eulogise Lord R. Churchill’s Licensing Bill, including compensation.

The Tichborne case is to be re-opened, Madrid, Feb. 26. King Alfonso, who was recently suffering from an attack of syncope, has had a very serious relapse.

Paris, Feb. 25. The Municipal Council of Paris has protested against the Duke of Orleans being released unless the strikers now under sentence are also pardoned.

Berlin, Feb. 26 .' The Clerical party will dominate in the new Reichstag. The total Socialist vote was 920,000.

Feb. 27. Prince Bismarck has postponed bis total retirement from public life in order to show that he is Lot affected by the result of the elections. Washington, Feb. 25. Petitions have been sent from America to the Czar, imploring that clemency may be shown to the exiles in Siberia. Mr Sewell has been appointed United States Consul at Apia, Samoa, New York, Feb, 25. | A Russian dying at Dakota has confessed to a dynamite plot arranged in 1888 to assassinate the Czar. The confession implicates many prominent officials,

Ottawa, Feb. 26 . The Behring Strait fisheries dispute is not yet settled, and there is some uneasines in Canada as to the probable result,

AUSTRALIAN CABLE, Melbourne, Feb, 26. Nathan’s furnishing warehouse was burned out and almost wholly destroyed last night. The damage is £50,000. Insurances, £25,000. The South British holds risks to the amount of £6OOO, and the New Zealand and Colonial £SOO each,

An outbreak of typhoid fever has occurred among the domestics at Government House. The Earl of. Hopeloun and family will remain at the Governor’s summer residence, Mount Maoedon.

Sailed, yesterday—-To Anad, for Bluff, Feb. 27. The Argus, comparing the imports of New South Wales with those of Yictona, says the tendency to decadence in the trade of Victoria 1 is a subject requiring searching investigation, for botwithstanding alt that can te said in favour of adding to the wealth of ,the colony by borrowing, the wide divergence between imports and exports is not satisfactory. The Governor has received a cable message from the Queen congratulating tho colonies on the success of the Federation Conference, Sydney, Feb. 26. The steamer Sikh, which has a quantity of cargo for New Zealand, during the voyage struck on a reef in Torres Straits, and leaked freely. The cargo, which is mostly sugar, is believed to be seriously damaged. The floods are abating. The farmers in the Hunter River district have lost £30,000.

T. L. . Feb> 2 7. Bubear, tho English sculler, who is now in Australia, has challenged Brown, the Clarence River oarsman, tor £IOO a side.

The Kempsey farmers’ loss by floods amount to £70,000, chiefly by damage to the maize crop.

PlitjWpst the season: is - the best ex- ! perienced for twenty years. Water and grass,ape,in abundance; ,

;Arrived Wakatipu, from Welline-t ton. • 8 i Sailed-—Rotomahana, for Auckland, i ■Adelaide, Feb, 26. ■ The missing msteamer Bucephalus, l which, ran short of coal and provisions,! has been picked up. ; Hobart, Feb. 26. Arrived— H,Mi S;i Orlando,