TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2043, 8 May 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, May 4. The loss incurred by the Duohees of Edinburgh over her jewels turns out to be trifling, May 5. The R.M.S. Rirrutaka sailed from Plymouth on Saturday, The Waitangi has sailed for Auckland, The Orari is loading for Wellington, and the Pioko for Olago. May 6. Arrived Monarch, barque, from Timaru (Jan, Btb). The Royal Geographical Society have presented their gold medal to Mr Stanley. Paris, May 4. The bombardmeut of Whydah caused a panic among the Dahomeyans. Tho shelling of the town will be resumed on Monday unless the prisoners are released in the meantime. Marques Mores, who was arrested on a charge of inking the army to join the anarchists, has been liberated. Forty of the persons recently arrested have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, May 5. Arrived—Te Anau from Brisbane. May 6. As the flood water recedes from Bourke the town is found to be in a most deplorable condition. The fund for the relief of sufferers has now reached £SOOO, Adelaide, May 5. A constable has reported to the Government on the treatment of blacks on the mission Btations, northern territory, accusing the German missionaries of illtreating them, tie states that he saw the missionaries threaten tho blacks with firearms and ride down runawaj children with revolvers. Women were ill used and cripples of both sexes were allowed to wander where they pleased. He asserts that the natives who managed to escape from tbe missions become tbe worst of the outlaws.