TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2036, 22 April 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 17. Last night the police raided the Fideles, a low betting club in Soho, and effected the arrest of 57 persons, cbirfly foreigners, Captain Kane, late of the Calliope, is an applieant for the post of Cornmander of H.M.S. Excellence. Mr Fincb Hatton has had an. interview with (he Hon. 8. Herbert with respect to the renewal of the agitation for the separation of Northern Queensland. It is expected that the Bering Bea fishery dispute will be amicablv settled on the lines suggested by the Canadian delegates. The solicitor of the lichborne family is engaged in examining documents forwarded on behalf of the latest claimant, who is an Australian resident. Miss Stairs, a young danseuse, claims £SOOO damages from Sir George Elliot for breach of promise of marriage. Eight hundred tenders were received for the Victorian £4,000,000 loan, covering £13,613,000. Tenderers at £lOl 9s 6d get 15 per cent. The average price \a £lOl 10s sd. With the exception of a few email outsiders, the highest tender was £lO2 13s. One syndicate applied for three and a-half millions of the loan.

News has been received that a numof extensive caves, showing ancient workings, have been discovered at Swaziland. Ihe workings are exceedingly rich, and good authorities believe them to be the mines from which Solomon obtained vast quantities of gold. Sir Charles Dilke has declined to contest the Kensington seat, Prioce George has been gazetted to fI.M.S. Thrush. Sir F, N. Broome informed the Colonising Committee of the House ?of Commons it would be useless to attempt any Bcheme of sending emigrants to Western Australia under £IOO,OOO. Sir T. Campbell stated that the stagnation from which that colony was suffering was entirely the result of the Colonial Office refusing to permit borrowing, April 18, Mr Goschen is willing to reduce the postal rates to India and the colonies by all routes to 2£d if the colonies concur. By this reduction he estimated a loss of £BO,OOO, Later, Mr Goschen stated the reduction of ocean postage to 2£d would cost £105,000 for jthe complete year. Mr Raikes, Postmaster-General, will enter into negotiations on the subject with the. Colonial Agents-General immediately.

It has been decided that the governing body of the Imperial Institute shall contain thirtj-five colonial members. Lord Cerrington will return and assume the Governorship of New South Wales at the end of five years, The Marquis of Lothian is still regarded as his immediate successor. In the breach of promise case brought by a young danseuse against Sir George Elliott the jury i were unable to agree. April 19. Lord Cranley bas arrived here to begin his education at Eton. After the announcement of the proposed reduction in ocean postages, Mr Henniker Heaton received quite an ovation in the lobby, and the Press this morning coagratulates him on tho partial accomplishment of his hopes. The Times trusts that the.colonies will yield a patriotic assent to the proposal. Mr Heaton, who is. delighted at the turn affairs have taken, says that the assent of the colonies is a mere formality, and expresses the hope that before long the ocean rate will be further reduced to one penny. Captain Kane, of H.M.S. Calliope, has been appointed to the command of H.M.S. Excellence, the gunnery ship at Portsmouth, To-day being Primrose Day, Her Majesty the Queen, who is on the Continent, forwarded wreaths of primroses to Hughenden in memory of the Karl of Beaconefteld. Paris, April 17. A meeting, of anarchist at the house Louise Michel insisted that dynamite was essential to the attaiajijg of their objects, This Bentiment was received with applause.

Madame Melba appeared here as Marguerite in "Faust," and scored the greatest eupcesß that has fallen to the lot of any singer who filled the past since Adelina Palti.

April 19. A doubtful report has reached here to the effect that the French had captured Wbydab, and were afterwards? attapfced by the J)ahomyanß, who killed eight men and captured two guns. Ultimately the French troops repulsed the assailants and recaptured the guns. St. Petersburg, April 19. Her Plessen, a German naval has been discovered buying plans of Croiißtadt from a cfljcer^

Plessen left St, Petersburg hurriedly and the traitor has been arrested, Russia is massing troops in the neighborhood of the Caucasus, in view of the (rouble in Armenia, Berlin, April 17. The Press is favorable to Von Oaprivi, The Reichstag will probably discuss the question of general disarmament. April 18. A rumor is in circulation to the effect that the Emperor William requested Prince Bismarck to return the letters written by hira when Crown Prince, and that Priuce Bismarck refused to comply with the request, April 19. Prince Bismarck is accused of inspiring the Press to attack General Von Coprivi, his successor. „ «_,»„,, It is asserted that the discovery" of a projected Russian invasion of Germany induced the Emperor to conciliate France. Cracow, April 19. The auti.Semitic plot has resulted in 131 Jewish houses at Sendee, in Galaoia, being burnt. Washington, April 17. The Committee of Ways, and Means of the House of Representatives has reported on the Republic Tariff Bill, making hides and sugar below 16 per cent., Batch standard, free ; above 16 per cen«;. subject to a duty of 4-lOths of one cent, per pound, and giving American domestic sugars.a boaniy of tW3 cents per pound. April 18. The Tariff Committee of Congress estimate that the proposed reduction in the Customs duties will amount to 7,000,000d0f8, and in the internal revenue to l0,000,000do!s. It is improbable that the wool imports will be. maintained, for the object, of the Bill is to check foreign imports, to promote production at home, and to diversify the industries of the country, Ottawa, April 19. The Government of the Dominion express indignation at Newfoundland taking Canadian fishermen on their entering the harbor for bait. Zanzibar, April 19. Emin, with 1500 followers, opens trading stations on the great Central African lakes in the German interest. April 19. Father Schineze, one of the sick missionaries whom Mr Stanley rescued and safely conducted here from Ikungu on his return journey from Lake Victoria, has published a pamphlet declaring that Mr Stanley's object in entering the equatorial provinces was to utilise Emin Pasha's force to cooquer those provinces for England, and to secure an outlet at Mombassa.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Syditey, April 18. The steamer Scotia, with tha New Zealand duplicate cable, arrived from London to-day. At a special meeting of the Federated Seamen's Union it was decided to withdraw from the Maritime Council, It is alleged that the latter body usurped executive functions in trying to form a Coasting Seamen's Union against the expressed desire of the Seamen's Union. Any seaman adhering to the Coastal Union after May 17th will be debarred from ever joining the Federated Seamen's Union, anl any who have already joined must resign on pain ot expulsion, Ade&aibe, April IS, Professor Orummond, author of « Natural Law in the Spiritual World," has arrived here. He proposes to i deliver a series of semi-private lectures in the colonies, mostly by means of Universities.