TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2063, 24 June 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. ip London, June 19. The holders of New Plymouth Harbor Board debentures intend to petition the Government to place them in as favorable a position as if the mode of disposing- of the waste Ipnds was still the same as in 1879, They urge that if their claim is not reobgnis'ed, it will prejudice the credit of tiio colony, Mr Stanley dec'aresthat Lord Salisbury has added half a ’’■•.million square miles of territory to tire Empire, with immense possibilities of, extension in the future. Sir P. Mackinnon warmly approves of the Premier’s bargain, The Australian Trading World sug gests the consolidatTo'n a portion of the Australian debts at the rate, of £lO per head into Federal 3 per cent consols, jointly and severally secured in perpetuity, and so constitute an acceptable medium to trustees for investment under the Bill, The Times considers the suggestion ingenious, and that it can be effected without difficulty, Juno 20. ■ The first clause of the Bill granting compensation to publicans was carried by a majority of four. The Marquis of Salisbury, in reply to Lord Rosebery, said that naval experts were favorable to the cession of Heligoland, June 21. The licensing clauses in the local taxation proposals of the Government will probably be withdrawn. The Economist predicts a further fall in the price of wool at the third serifs which open on luesday nex 1 , as it is considered that the market is unprepared to absorb 400,000 bales without abatement in price. The Marquis of Salisbury has complained to Portugal of her violating (fie status quo in the Shire dis.rict by massing troops on the banks of the Ruo river. The St, Petersburg correspondent of the Chronicle telegraphs that the Czar has sanctioned a Franco. Russian alliance to balance the Anglo-German agreement.

In thn match between the Australians and The Players the Utter won in one innings, with 263 runs to spare, In the first innings The Players made 526 runs, on» of their number, Gunn, making 228, and being hours at the wicket. The Australians made only 156 in their first, and 107 in their second innings, Berlin, June 19. , The Germans are extremely jubilant at the cession of Heligoland. June 20. The Germans consider that the East African settlement almost amounts to an a liance with England, A feeling is gradually spreading that in the settlement of the East African question England secured the best of the bargain. St. Petersburg, June 21. , Crowds of Jews are being expelUd from the western provinces of Russia and are peeking refuge in Austria. The King of Dahomey is suing for peace. Mew \ork, June 21. A cyclone passed over the Stale of Illinois, wrecking many of the towns and villages. Thirty persons were killed and numbers injured. June 20. American hav>. presented] a petition to the Senate asking its support to the title to the lands acquired frqm Fiji chiefs. The poljuoq has been referred to the Foreign Relations Committee.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbouen?!, June 20. Arrived—;Manapouri from Bluff. Sydney, June 21 . Ihe Joint Slock Bank has recovered £7,357 from the Bank of New Zealand on a dishonored cheque in connection with the Ihoraas frauds. June 22. lamworth, situated 282 miles north of Sydney, is partially flooded^and the drowning of a rq s U named Lynch is re- . ported, 1 Brisbane, Juno 20. A passenger who was on board the steamer Dacca, wrecked in the Red Sea, has arrived hers and can give no reason for tfie disaster, as Ilia sun was shining brightly at the time the vessel struck, and they could see for miles around. A large number of passengers were landed in their night clothes, and the surround-.-ing water was literally swarming with sharks. The firemen belonging to the steamer behaved badly after the accident and several of them who wt . ra suspected of stealing money belonging to passengers were taken before the eongt at Port, feaitl and sentenced tQ terms of imprisonment,