TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2022, 20 March 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, March 16. There is increasing indignation in the House of Commons at the atrocities which it is reported arebeing committed on prisoners in Siberia, but the Government refuse to interfere in the matter. The Australian cruisers are faking in stores and armaments, and are being tried over the Admiralty course at Devonport. They will sail in ; August. The modus vivendi arranged with Prance respecting the dispute over the Newfoundland fisheries is based op the status ante quo of July, 1889, March 17, News has been received here that the ship Winifred, which left Wellington for London on January 14th, has put into Bahia, on the north-east coast of Brazil. She reports that her cargo, which consisted of wool, flax, and skins, was discovered to be on fire, and it was thought advisable to run to the nearest port. No further particulars are yet to hand. The Australian horse Plutarch will probably run in the, Trial Stakes at Lincoln meeting on Monday next, Narellan and Kirkham continue to do excellent work. The Aorfa colliery is flooding. Fortythree bodies have been recovered. Lord Randolph Churchill, in reply to the attacks upon him, has republished his original protest against the Parnell Commission at the time it was set up, He declares that the promoters of the Commission were the real traitors, not the Unionists, Lisbon, March 16. A petition praying for the removal of the British Consulate at Oporto has been presented to the King by the students of the city.’ Replying to the petition, the King promised to comply with the request. March 18. Major Pinto has been instructed to proceed to Mossamedes, a Portuguese colony 170 miles sooth of Benzuella, West Africa. There is great excitement there over the re-hoisting of the British flag at Shire, in the Gambesi country,

Paris, March 17. M. Pasteur complains of the perfidy of New South Wales in withholding the reward offered for the best scheme of rabbit destruction, merely because he was a foreigner, Peelin', March 17. Prince Bismarck will have an interview with Dr Windthorst, leader of the centre, for the purpose of negotiating a union between the Cartel and Clerical parties, in order to secure a majority in the Reichstag, Munich, March 17. The Bavarian Government have declined to recognise the Old Catholics as members of the Church. Constantinople, March 15. The Porte declines to take the initiative in recognising Prince Ferdinand, Russian pressure is the cause. Rome, March 17. An epidemic following the influenza has broken out in Northern Italy. The patients attacked suffer a deathlike trance for several days, but as yet no deaths are reported. Buda Pesth, March 15. Tisza has formally resigned the Premiership of Hungary, He supports Count Szapary as bis successor. Calcutta, M&rch 15. News, has been received from Cabal of an Afghan outbreak, leading to a number of courtiers being beheaded. Ishak Khan is massing - troops in Bokhara, Durban, March 16. Mr Burcban, British Consul, has rehoisted the British flag, and proclaimed British rule over the Shire district. Washington, March 15.

The trial of the Zalinski dynamite i gun, with the addition of the Miriam, I was a splendid success. i New. York, March 17. A convention of the Clan-na-Gael Society has been summoned, i San Francisco, March 16. 1 The Chinese have been ordered to remove from the centre of the city, AUSTRALIAN CABLE, Sydney, March 17. A man, while driving a van home, fell asleep and upset a can of turpentine, On arriving at home his wife struck a match to look for her husband, and ignited the turpentine. She found he was dead from the effects of liquor. Sailed yesterday—Waihora, for Wellington. Arrived—Te Anau, from Auckland. March 18. The Government have decided to spend the sum of £25,000 for the pur- 1 pose of establishing mining schools throughout the colony, and £SOOO in the erection of a technical college in the same interest. During daylight to-day a robbery of the Hurstville branch of the Bank of Australia look place, The manager of the bank had placed £l4l in a bag for ,1110 purpose of bringing it into town,

and after locking the doors of the bank was standing outside looking for a tram, when he Was attacked by a stranger from behind, who aimed a desperate blow at him, at the same time snatching the bag Q nd making off. As soon as the manager recovered from the' effect of the blowjhe gave chase after the robber, and succeeded in securing him 'with the money in his possession. The man was given into the custody of the police, Melbourne, March 18. Large bush fires are raging in the neighborhood of Camperdbwn and Flinders, and great destruction has resulted to grass and fencing. Brisbane, March 17. A lunatic named Chippendale stabbed and killed a warder at. Maryborough Asylum, and; then effected his escape, March 18. A bottle has been.washed ashore, containing a letter dated October last, stating that the barque Enderby, Captain Mitchell, with a cargo of coal, was in a water-logged condition and the cargo on fire. Extraordinary landslips have occurred at Rosewood, a station on the southern and western railway, 35 miles southwest of here. Large areas of land moved bodily, and numerous houses were destroyed. Several farms, have been ruined, and fissures from 10 feet to 20 feet deep rent in the earth. The resjdents of the township fled in terror but no fatalities are reported. ’ Albany, March 18. The s.s, Coromandel has arrived from Plymouth, Passengers for New Zealand : Mr and Mrs Congreve, Bishop Selwyn, wife,,and infant, Mr Meddow.