TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2075, 22 July 1890, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

London, July 12

Mr H. M, Stanley had a very serious attack of gastritis two days before his marriage with Miss Dorothy Tennent, but was able to attend (he ceremony in Westminster Abbey, though he was in a very weak state. The officiating clergymen »t the marriage ceremony were the Bishop of Ripon, the Master of the Temple, and the Dean of Westminster. Among those present were the Prince of Walts, Mr G adstone, and the leaders of society, art, and literature. King Leopold’s representative ns Stanley's best man, and Stanley’s African companions as groomsmen. The spectacle was a most brilliant one, and the presents were both numerous and valuable.

Mr R. L. Jeffray, managing director of the Unirn Mortgage and Agency Company of Australia, undertakes the management of the Assets Company formed to take over the globo assets of the Bank of New Zealand.

When the Inniskilling Fusi'iers were landing from a train at Portsmouth to coerce the mutinous Grenadier Guards they sang “ God Save Ireland,” and cheered the Guards. Ibe Yorkshire Regiment immediately replied. 'I he Guards were quiet. The justice of the men’s comp'aints is partly admitted. The Bishop of Limerick, replying to Mr Dillon’s attacks in the Douse of Commons, retorts that Mr Dillon has been collecting ostensibly for the relief of evicted tenents, while be and his party still occupied safe and profitable employment, and that the attack was provoked because the exposure of their conduct closed the pockets of sympathisers. It is believed that France will abandon her rights in Newfoundland for pecuniary and territorial compensation.

Mr Gladstone is recovering his health

The captain and eleven of the crew of the ship Metope landed at Deal, the vessel’s cargo having fired spontaneously near Ayres. The crew look to the boats and were rescued. The Merope was bound for Wellington. [ln a previous cable message the ship’s name was given as the Mirage.] New Yoke, July 12.

A serious explosion took place on board an oil steamer at Chicago, and fifteen persons were ki'led. Halifax, July 12.

By the collapse of a wharf at Dartmouth, oq the eastern side of the harbor, a hundred persons were immersed, many of whom were drowned.

Buenos Ayres, July 12.

The financial crisis in the Argentine Republic and the State of Urugaay, is less acute. Gcdd has exceeded a premium of 300, Dr Coiman, President of the Argentine Republic, fearing a revolution, has withdrawn his forced currency proposal. The Government, are end<avouring to negotiate a loan with England.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, July 19. In giving evidence before the Charities Commission three doctors stated that the Melbourne hospital was a hot-bed of disease, and asserted that five house surgeons bad died from phthisis contracted in consequence of the unsanitary slate of the hospital. Sydney, July 18. Arrived—Pukaki from the Bluff. Several sai ing vessels from New Zealand to Sydney are reported to be overdue. July 19. Cardinal Moran is raising a fund lor placing a Dailey memorial window in St. Mary’s Cathedral. On Thursday haiL a .million acres of land were taken up on conditional purchase.

July 20.

The break in the cables occurred on the morning of the 11th n»ar Banjoewangie after: a severe shock of earthquake had passed over the southern end of Java. At noon to-day the steamer Sberrard Osborne succeeded -in finally splicing the cable. Brisbane, July 18.

The captain of the barque Zodiac, his wife and two daughters. Miss .Brown a passenger, and six of the illfaiad vessel’s crew, have landed here from the rescuing steamer. The captain reports the Zodiac to have had a terrible passage, and states that there was nine feet of water in the hold when the vessel was abandoned, notwithstanding that the erew were pumping for 24 hours. On the night before she commenced to settle down she was running before a heavy gale, and Camden Haven hove in sight at daylight. The deck cargo was jettisoned and the decks swept of everything before the vessel was abandoned, Adelaide, July 18. ,

The outcome of the agitation of the Ministers Association for the rights of citizenship has been that a motion was carried in the House of Assembly allowing ministers of religion to hold seats in the Municipal Councils. A proposal to allow women to become members of the same bodies was rejected.