TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2051, 27 May 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, May 22. The Earl of Rosebery presided at the annual meeting of the Federation League. He said that England would maintain her supremacy despite iho growth of population elsewhere. May 28. Lord Salisbury again denies that English rights in Africa have been in any way surrendered to the Germans. Nothing had been determined on, and possibly no settlement would be arrived at. The Premier considers that the African questions once settled, the outlook for peace was ; never more promising. Speaking at the Merchant Tailors’ banquet, he deprecated boundless annexations in Central Africa. D-fence of the seaboard is easy, but of the interior impossible, Mr Gladstone considers the granting of compensation will add fifty millions to the the publicans’ licenses, and pronounces it the greatest blow ever struck at the cause of temperance. A committee has been appoiu'ed to examine the affairs of the New Zealand Aniimony Company, Arrived—Ship Carlisle Castle, from Lyttelton (Feb, sth) ; s.s. Balmoral Castle, fr®m Wellington (April i h). Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, is to be created E*rl of Athol and Duke of Clerance and Avondale, Tenders for the City of Sydney loan of £25,000 at 4 per cent close on Thursday, The minimum is fixed at 104. The Economist, referring to the Bank of New Zealand, considers that it has drifted into a perilous position, and advises the adoption of Ihe plan suggested at a meeting of shareholders in Loudon on the 17lh inst.—the immediate transfer of the head t ffice to London, the addition of strong names on the London board, and the placing of the surplus values of colonial sites to reserve,and dividends •b; mid be confin d to moderate amounts until a strong reserve fond is formed. May 24. The Australians defeated Surrey by eight wickets, Lyons played a dashing innings for 24. Both Trolt and Mur. doch carried their bats for 35 and 17 respectively, Sxjakim, May 23.

A famine ot a most extensive character is being experienced by the natives here. At lokur and Kassala the inhabitants have been reduced to such straits that cannibalism is frequently resorted to. In Suakttn alone England is supplying food to 2000 persons daily. Hundreds are dying daiy from the famine, New \ork, May 23. Prior to the mach at San Francisco Sullivan will fight Jackson for a purse of £SOOO at the Virginia Athletic Club rooms, St. Johns, May 25. The whole of the fishing population of Newfoundland is arming, and open hostility to the fishing vessels is feared, Three Briti-h warships have been ordered to rendezvous off the coast, and it is rumored that America has despatched the cruisers Charleston and Honolulu, fearing an outbreak.

AUSTRALIAN GABLE.

Sydney, May 23. On the arrival of the Wakatipu, the New Zealand athletes were publicly received by the Mayor. In the Legislative Council last night the Divorce Bill was counted out. May 24. News from the Solomon Group states that during a head.taking expedi'ion organised by one of the chiefs, fifty natives were murdered, and it is ex pectcd that more bloodshed will ensue. At the inquest on the collision between the mail trains from Brisbane end Sydney at Fairley, a small wayside station about two miles from West Maitland, on the I3ih inst, in which a jockey named McFadgen was killed j outright, the jury found the accident, i was caused by the culpab'e negligence of John Farnham, driver of the train to Brisbane, and the stoker J, Buchanan. Warrants have been issued for their arrest. Melbourne, May 23. During the savings bunk scare £IOO,OOO was withdrawn. May 24. Arrived—Tarawera from Bluff, At a meeting of the shareholders in the British Broken Hill Silver Mining Company it was stated that a reef estimated to contain over six hundred thousand tons of the best ore, and a million tons of the poorer class is in sight,