TELEGRAMS

Temuka Leader, Issue 2085, 14 August 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Ang. 10.

Provisions ■ in ); South Walesoare' at famine prices. Meat is at 2s per pound, Aug. 11.

A new movement is on foot in Ireland. Tenants are asking the Government to reduce the instalments payable i under Lord Ashbourne's Act, Baron de Worms denies that England has agreed to allotfr the Transvaal to; annex Swaziland as asserted by Presi-i dent Kruger. The cricket match Australians v. AIL England commenced on the oval to-! day, 10,000 spectators being present.; The first innings i closed for 92, and bfi All England for 100. The ground was! very sloppy, it having rained hard all I the previous day., j Arrived Maori from Bluff; harbor.

Potato blight has appeared in County! Mayo, Ireland, and famine is feared. Lord Salisbury states that the freedom I of missions in Madagascar ha's.been, guaranteed under the arrangement be- 1 tween France and England.

The German papers prophesy startling results at an early day from the Emperor’s visit to England. Berlin, Aug. 11. The populace of Heligoland greeted the JBmperor with much enthusiasm. In taking formal possession be said that twenty years after tha battle of W«erth they found themselves in a position to reincorporate, without a war, the. last piece of German earth' in an island which would harbor in safely the German navy against any enemies in the German ocean. All the English officials have left the island.

St, Petersburg, Aag. 11

Hundreds of Jewish families in Southern Russia are fleeing from the country. Bands are roving about robbing and murdering the Jews.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE;

Sydney, Aug. 12

Kemp and O’Connor are signing articles for a match in America in March next for JSSOO a side and the championship of the world. Arrived—To Anau from Auckland. Melbourne, Aug, 12.

A prtma fade case has been made out against the directors of the Permanent Building Association, with the exception of Mr J. L. Dow, ex-Mimster of Lands, who has been acquitted of complicity in tbe fraud. The Cabmet are considering the advisableness of re-appointing Mr Dow to a portfolio.