TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2110, 11 October 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

: "ENGLISH AN|5 FOREIGN. London, Oct. 7 • Mr Parnell’s absence from the conIforence at Dublin h&sprovoked some Comment. It is belated fee is indignant Bt Ameaictn Societies refusing to sobordinate themselveS to the Central League, in Dublin, ;Mr P«rnell vi is also stated to be annoyed at the five Bishops denouncing the Plan of Campaign, - Dillon and O’Brien journeyed from Tipperarv to Dublin, for tluUpnrpose* of attending the Irish Conference, in one special train shadowed by another. Dennys, of Dumbarton, and Fleming and Fergnsson, of . Paisley, have contraoted to build. t! new steamers required by the Union Company of New Zealand. ' The imports into the Uni’ed Kingdom increased in Septemb°r by £2,145,000 and the exports by £8,072,000. The statement prepared by Westgarth and Co. shows a clear balance of oyer £50,000, and that the difficulty is entirety doe to the fall in colonial stocks. They say that the Victorian stocks were virtually unsaleable, and deny the rnmodrs that their embarassment has been brought about by speculation. Tha American bankers consider the position of the firm is perfectly sound, Oct. 8.

Lord Salisbury is pressing Portugal Jot an indemnity for-the seizure of -the Lake Company’s steamer. The fnneral of Mrs Booth will oocnpy Monday and Tuesday. Twentv-four thousand seats sre being fitted up in Ibe building known as Olympia for the funeral service proper on Monday. Fears are spreading because of the alarmist reports regarding the solvency of well known financial and the Slock. Exchange is excited; in consequence. .... u . It is, expected ,tbat the , Tariff! Bill will injnre Sheffield to the extent of £360,000 per annum, .and result in throwing two thousand.,.sutlers out of: work. Mr Howard Vincent member for Sheffield, in a letter to the rimes urges Great Britain ~to combat tha McKinley Tariff Bill by preferential treatment to the , colonies. The limes deprecates such a course and considers i|; impossible to adopt a scheme .of retaliation.

■ Messrs' and' Co have declared a dividend of 8 per cent., end £BO.OOO tpwarda-the ex inolipn, ot übe good will. .. ; Oct< 9. It is staled that a,nnmbar rof Fenian prisoners wi I shortly be pardoned. Mr A. J. Balfour, Chief Secsetary for Ireland, characterises the ; statement tbatthe potato blight will result in-ia partial famine,ims6m»iof the-i-Irish disas ftbsurdvJbut promises l that 1 the Government 1 will assist those - Who - may need> Assistance. Paris, Got. 8. The French Government proposes to increase the* tariff, and the uV ifavored nation ” clause wilt brobablv‘he abolished. W ASHINWTOK’, Oct. 8. A Conference ofi Mormon apostles and elders - has corififnied 'the' of polygamy. Nbw'Yokk, Oct. 8. A serious explosion occurred at ■ the powder mills 1 Wilmington, the metropolis ot Delaware, Twenty f persons were killed- and forty injured*: and 1 acres of trees and buildings were destroyed. Ottawa. Oct. 8. In the course 6f an: interview to-day, Sir Charles Tnpper, in , referring' to the McKinley Tariff Bill, declared that Canada would establish a line bf stfratners 1 between VaooflnverTsland and Australia, I whicb wßsl the quickest route 1 of transit : from the colonies -to Knglaud.

Australian; cable. \SY»irBT, Obt, 6. Thera was a brilliant ass,ettblage I In's afterhohn at the enthron&bfnt hf the Bishop of Sydney as Metropolitan and Primate ofAustralia and Tasmania; The ceremony was p'erformbd ■ the Vary itev. Wj Cowpar, M,A., .D&an 6f Sydney, assisted by the 'Right Rev. Sydney Linton, D. 8., ,BshOp of Bathurst ; the Right Rer. W. Webber. D.D., Bishop of Brisbane ; the Right Rev. F- P. <sbe, D.D„ Bishop of Melbonrno ; add the Right Rev. W. Einnon, D.D., Bishop of Adel aid?. Brisbane,,Oct. .8. The two escapees recently extradited to New Caledonia have been guillotined tor murder.