TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2033, 15 April 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 11. The exports for the United Kingdom for the past quarter show an increase of £2,050,000, and imports a decrease of £784,000 as compared with the corresponding term of the previous year. Mr T. D. Sullivan, M.P. for West Meath, urges the acceptance of the Irish Land Purchase Bili, and denies the allegations of Lord Randolph Churchill and others that the tenantry would repudiate Iho repayment of advances. The committee of the Irish Landowners Convention has passed a resolution that the Land Purchase Bill will be injurious to landlords and fail to benefit the best class of tenants. Mr Chamberlain, speaking at Birmingham, supported the Bill and urged the Government to submit the Local Government Bill immediately, making county councils responsible for advances to the tenants instead of the State. | The remains of the late Marquis of Normanby were buried at Lylbe. The Queen was represen'ed, Scientific men ridicule the assertion that an affection of the glands of the neck follows the influenza. April 12, Obituary The Right Reverend Edward Parry, D.D., Bishop Suffragan of Dover, and one of the Archdeacons of Canterbury. Deceased was born at Government House, Sydney, in 1832, The election for the Carnarvon seat ■ in the House of Commons, caused by the sudden death of Mr Edmund Sweetenbam, took p'ace to-day, and resulted iu the return of Mr George, a Liberal, by a majority of 22 over (he Conservative candidate. By a fire at Baron Rothschild’s mansion at Waddlesdon, near Aylesbury, Buckingham, a painting by Gainsborough, valued at £IO,OOO, wap destroyed. Arrived—S.S, Eldcrslie, from Port Chalmers. The Duke of Cambridge has invited six or twelve Victorian riflemen to take part in the Royal Tournament which opens on June Ist. The massacre of two Portuguese officers ajid 150 native soldiers by the Makololos in February, has been confirmed. The opening of the new town of Tipperary, occasioned by evictions from Mr Smith Barry's estate, took place to day amidst great enthusiasm. The ceremony was performed by Messrs M, Davitt and O’Brien. The old town of Tipperary is now practically deserted. Madrid, April 11. Anti-Carlist riots have taken, place at Valencia.

Paris, April 10. A French expedition against Dahomey is being organised. Berlin, April 13. It is considered that Mr Stanley is a covert enemy to Germany, and his expedition for the relief of Emin Pasha is regarded as a disguise to a huge British scheme of commercial annexation of the Equatorial Provinces, St. Petersburg, April 11.

Bussia is building a flotilla of rowing boats on the Danube which will enable 16,000 men to ha landed on the southern shore in the event of war in Bulgaria. All the students recently arrested except eight have been released. The Czar has persuaded the {Servian regents to allow Queen Nathalie to educate the young King Alexander. Athens, April 11. A great fight has taken place at Belinos in Crete between the Tuiks and Christians, Many were ki led on either side. Pekin, April 12. Ihe Marquis Tseng, late Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court of Pekin to the Court of Bt. James, died to-day, aged 53. Mozambique, April 12. Locnl dealers have been forbidden by the Portuguese authorities lo supply provisions to British warships, Zanzibar, April 11. It is announced that Emin’s expedition to the interior is for the purpose of rescuing Dr Peters, who is reported to bn starving with his followers at Kavironda Bay, on the shore of Lake Victoria Nyanza. A pril 12. Dr Parke declares that the injuries to Emin Pasha’s eyes are incurable, and that cataract will produce b'iudness at the expiration of a year, Washington, April 10. Tiie Australian ballot system is becoming general throughout the States/ New lork, April 11,’ It is understood that the Central American States of Costa Rico, Nicnragua, Gauteraalo, Honduras, and San Salvador have decided to federate, and the Diet tvill be summoned lo elect a President in September,