TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2020, 15 March 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Ma red 12

The Committee on the Western Austr» ian Bill includes the Baron de Worms, Sir G. Baden Powell, Admiral Colomb, Sir H. Temple, Messrs Campbell, Macartby, and Macarthur, At a meeting in Hyde Park Burns described the Czar as a monster, Bnd Raid that bo was primarily responsib'e for the horrible condition of affairs which existed in the management of the Siberian mines. Burns declared that he would himself be the first, man to join an expedition to murder the Czar.

Von Arneraann, a German dentist, has been sentenced to twenty yesrs' penal servitude for shooting at a County Court Judge at Nottingham. The prisoner had been unsuccessful in a case heard before the judge. Meeting him in the street he shot at him with a revolver.

At Sir P. D. Bell's request the Treasury has eu'borised the Sydney and Melbourne mints to receive gold coins issued before 1837 up to the end of A.pril. Sir William Robinson has secured Miss Ada Knight, of Melbourne, an introduction to the Princess of Wales. Much interest is expressed in the medical career of this yousg lady, who obtained her diploma as doctor of medicine last August.

The woman who fired at Mr Isaacs, M.P., has been acquitted.

The financial statement will not be delivered till after Easter, . The Act fa colliery is on fire.

McAuliffe, the American pugilist, has issued an oper. challenge for a fight to a finish.

Fifteen bodies have been recovered from the colliery in which the explosion took place. It is believed that at least 100 others must have lost their lives. Ihe Right Hon. Cecil Raikes, Post-mapter-General, stated in tbe House to-day that Australia and India had not shown any desire for a reduction of postal charges. Australia lost £380,000 and Canada 700,000 dollars annually as it was. He considered is doubtful whether England was competent to reduce the ocean letter rates to a penny without destroying the existing agreements with other colonies,

March 12, The Rev. Mr Tucker, curate of Durham, succeeds Bishop Hannington, who had charge of East Equatorial Africa, and who was murdered by the natives several years ago. It is reported that the Victorian loan has been deferred, but it is believed that the Queensland Government will shortly place a loan on the market.

Sir Charles Dilke, speaking at Glasgow, said that the dominant classes in Australia would become Conservative in regard to established rights as time went :on. He predicted that the working class, by union and federation of labor, would become the ruling power in England ag it now is in Australia. The Irish Land Tenure Bill was rejected on the motion for the second •reading by a majority of 52. It has been ascertained that the loss of life in the Aorfa colliery is less than was at first supposed. The number of deaths rpported is 87. Dr Wescott, Cap.on of Westminster, has been appointed Bishop of Durham.' The ship Sophocles from Sydney, which has been overdue for soma weeks, has arrived.

Paris, March 12

Tbe murderers of the Due d'Aumale's gamekeeper were sentenced to death and the double execution took place to-day. There was a piteous scene at tbe guillotine.

After losing a thousand soldiers in the action with the French troops tbe King of Dahomey withdrew to Lima. The general of the Am»zons was amongst those killed on the Dahomeyan side. Six of the Frenchmen who were captured at Ihe same time as the Governor), of French Senegal have been released.

St. Petersburg, March 12. Schebikore, correspondent to tbe Czar, was arrested on his return to Russia for writing a letter to the Czar in which he made an impassioned appeal for reforms in the Government of Russia, Vienna, March 13. 'ihe persons connected with tbe emigration frauds in Germany have been sentenced to light terais of imprisonment. The public prosecutor appealed against the decision.

_, Constantinople, March 12. lhe Porte has granted an amnosty to most of the Cretan refugees. # Cairo, March 12. famine and pestilence are reported to be raging in the Soudan. This season has been an exceptionally favorable one, and it is expected that the corn yield from the spring harvest will bo the largest oyer known in Africa. Zanzibar, March 12 In the engagement b.-twecn the troops of Major Wissman and those of Bowhanens the latter force was completely routed, and broke up. The German loss is bm«l to bo only one killed, The

German flag has been hoisted on the islands of Monda and Ratta, both in tbe neighborhood of Zanzibar.

(Pretoria, March 11. Sir C. B. H. Mitchell, Governor of

Natal; baß wired to Kruger, President of the Transvaal, expressing his dis-

approval of the disturbances which'took place at Johannesburg, when a mob

prevented Kruger from addressing the meeting and regretting the insult which was offered to the. Transvaal flag. I n the face of Sir C.'Mitchell's communica-

tion it is not considered probable that Kruger wi ! l punish the rioters,

New Orleans, March 12. Sir T. Esraoode, in the course of ft speech, said the Irish Delegates had

collected 150,000 [? dollarsj in Australia, Baltimore, March 12. Peter - Jack son, the colored < pugilist, ' was mobbed in a theatre in this city by

1 the admirers of J. L. Sullivan. • There was a regular riot, and eggs, <fcc, were freely thrown at the obnoxious stranger, but he escaped unhurt. Washington, March 11.

Mr Tnulbec, member for Kentucky, who was shot in the corridor of the capitol by a reporter at the beginning of the month,'is dead.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE,

Sydney, March 11

The schooner Agnes has been wrecked near the Brunswick River, and the crew of eight'drowned.

March 13. Sailed Tarawera, Hauroto, »nd Jubilee.

Willoughby Andrews, who was' sentenced to death for the murder of' a clothier named Barkett in November last, has had the death sentence commoted.

Melbourne, March 13.

The agricultural statistics for Victoria for the year 1889-90, show a large increase in the yield of wheat, oats, and hay. The following are the figures : Wheat 11,304,000 bushels, the average being 9,65 ; oats, 5/611,000 bushels, average 23.89 ; potatoes, 145,800 tons, average 3.37.

Brisbane, March 12

Divers who were sent to the wreck'of the Quetta found ten fathoms of water all round her. The rough sea prevented an examination of the vessel.