TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2018, 11 March 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

London, March 6

Sir C, Dilke, lecturing at the Cobden Club, said that Australia was a model for modern nations, and few countries were more worthy of imitation.

The underground electric railway from the city to Clapham has been successfully tested.

A quarrel occurred at Baird’s private house, over the recent Smith-Slayin fight, during which Mitchell, the pugilist, assaulted Goode and Coburn, two men connected with the prize ring, with a poker. They were seriously injured and had to ba taken to the hospital. A warrant is out for the arrest of Mitchell.

Mr O’Brien has been granted an extension of time for his appeal against the decision in his libel action against Lord Salisbury, Mr Parnell pays the costs in his Scotch action against the Times. The amount is £SOO.

The Prince of Wales has been reelected Grand Master of the Masonic fraternity. In the coarse of the debate on the Commissioners’ report, Sir C. Lewis accused Mr Dillon of going to Australia in order to avoid being called as a witness.

Tichborne the claimant, will be a candidate for the constituency of Stoke-opon-Trent, vacated by the resignation of Mr W. L. Bright, The Directors of the Bank of Australasia have declared a dividend of 14 per cent per annum,

March 7, The Queen leaves for Savoy on March 25th,

Sir R. Webster said that though Sheridan had finally expressed himself willing to accept £IOOO to give evidence, Mr Soames had declined to entertain the offer because it was found his story did not corroborate the evidence required for the defence in the Parnell-Tiraes libel action.

The Right Hon. Shaw Le Pevre has been appointed chairman of a Committee to enquire into the cause of the decrease of acreage devoted to hop cultivation. The barque River Indus has arrived after a passage of 134 days from Newcastle.

Admiral Scott declares that the cruisers that are being built for the Australian station are all too small, and that they ought to ba of the same type as H.M. ships Blake and Blenheim, which are each of 12 guns and 9000 tons.

It is feared that the French forces at present in Dahomey are insufficient, and will be unable to prevent the sacrifice of 5000 slaves on the occasion of the accession of the King to the throne, The prisoners reserved for sacrifice have been doomed to most horrible tortures.

Hammond, who was notoriously connected with the West End scandal and who subsequently fled to New York, threatens to make a sensational confession.

Mr Cost, .a Conservative, has been elected for Stamford by a mnjnrity of 282 over Mr Priestly, the Horae Rule candidate.

Paris, March 6. Word has been received here that the Dahoraans attacked a body of Frenchmen at Koterme, The encounter ended in the defeat of the Dahomans, who lost about four hundred men, while the French loss was only nine.

March 8.,

It is feared that the French column sent to Dahomey is in a critical position, and a relief expedition of three thousand men ia spoken of.

Kt. Petersburg, March 6. In consequence of the authorities receiving a letter threatening assassination of the Czar, the sentinels in the Royal Palace have been doubled.

The Nihilists, recently arrested, had worked their way inside the Anitschkoff Pa'ace when discovered. Bombs were found on them.

March 7

The Nihilists have threatened to murder the Czar unless he abandons his reactionary policy.

Pekin, March 6. China ip sending reinforcements to the Siberian frontier. The reason given is the apprehension of a speedy Russian attack. New York, March 6. Gaudaur beat Hamm, Ten Eyck, and Hosraer over a mile coarse on Lake Colac, Florida. Ottawa, March 6. Ihe recent murder of a tourist in Canada is ascribed to a system of decoying and murdering wealthy Englishmen.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE, Sydney, March 7 . H,M,S. Egeria has sailed on a surveying cruise. It is believed she will visit the wreck of the Quetts. March 8. The steamer Menmuir, bound from Brisbane to Hong Kong, has arrived at Banjoewangi. As she was two weeks overdue some anxiety was felt for her

safety. She broke her shaft two days after leaving Sydney. Arrived—Tarawera from Auckland. Hobart, March 8. The R.M.S. Tainui arrived here at 4 o’clock this afternoon and sails at noon on Saturday tor New Zealand. She brings 50 passengers for Australia, and 66 for voyage Mrs Richards, a second saloon passenger, died of consumption, and w»s buried at sea,