TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2111, 14 October 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Pot. 6. The hospital at Bermuda is filled will the men of the Grenadier Guards sink with enteric fiver, Several , have died and it has beea'found necessary to omit the customary firipg over, the graves owing to the depressing effect on patients. It is expected that the appeal in tlie case Ah Foy versus the Collector o( Customs of Melbourne will abai heard before the Privy Council ■ abont the middle of next month. In Septemb°r, 1888, Ah Foy brought an action against the Collector for not being allowed to land in Melbourne, and the Appeal Court in 1889. decided agiinst, the. Go. vernment by a majority of four to;; two. It was from ibia decision the" Crown appeal. The further proceedings on behalf of Victoria will be under the personal supervision of the Don H. J. W raxoo,

Attorney-General tor with whom will be associated Sir Horace Davcy, Q.O„, member for Stockton. Messrs Westgarth; and Co,, held a million of the last Victorian loan and 1 it fa considered hopeless to float another Australian loan for a lengthened period, Mr Henry Harrison, M.P, for Mid Tipperary, who was injured by the police while the latter were excluding the public-from-tbe precints of the courthouse during the trial of Irish members, laid an information for assault against the police,

but subsequently withdrew it, alleging that the Bench appointed to hear the case was partial. Oct. 10. There is tremendous excitement on the Stock Exchange to-day, occasioned hy the failure of four brokers. Several more failures are expected. Mr Dilloti'and Mr O’Brien failed to putin an appear'aUcs at the* Tipperary Court to-day* and their bail was estreated. It is believed that they have secretly sailed for America. A rrived—Mersey, barque,lrom Lyttelton (May 23) ; Bronmhall, barque, from Lyttelton (June 26) ; Glenloria, barque, from Timaru, (Jnly 6) ; lone, barque, from Oamaru (Junes 3) ; Warwickshire, barque, from Oamaru (May 80.) The butter churn exhibited by Mr Waller Cole, of Wellington, at the Islington Dairy Show, has been awarded a gold medal. Mr Gu B,- Petyrkin a,? jeqfnrei at Aldershot last night on Imperial Defence. Baronide Worms, who presided stated that the Admiralty are selecting [thoroughly competent; officers who will start at once to take;part in the conference: of military commanders of Australia. He expressed: ahopei'jhat Imperial, Federation would shortly be established, England. being a pioneer, So far as is known here onlyipoe death has i occurred among; the Grenadier

Guards at Bermuda,- anj.fiva'arc ill. The ißritifihr Qonsul-General in ; New York emphatically, denies then statement ol Mr Mi Davitt that ho supplied James McDermott, the AmerioinFenian,, with funds to organise, the dynamite- plots in Canady e'c., or that he in -any way intrigued with McDermott. i-Mr Daviu’s contention-was that McDermott had been engaged to -organise a plot),-and afterwards hand over bis dupes ,to the British police. The Government have agreed to advance the Midland t Great'Western Kailway Company the skm of £400,000,; for the'purpose of constructing railway lines ihfo ! districts * which: are most! effected'(by theipotato - blight. 50,000 people from- all , parte of the United i Kingdom viewed the body ofMrs Booth,, oh the Salvation A Berlin, Oct, n. Gdffavuy and Austria are parleying with a-iview 'of tßbi% domuion adtiori in respect tp thd'McKinley Tariff Bill.

Berne, Got, II

There is great excitement in cop* sequencb’bf a rumour that the Govern-' ment at Ticino have been reinstated, A number of troops have been ordered- to the spot, ,

Vienna, Oct, 10.

A report is current here that while the Czar.of Rossi* was bunting,in the forest of Skienorpice, a dynamite shell exploded and His Majesty was wounded in, the foot, The report adds that several of his suite, including.tbes German’ General, Werder, were also injured. The Russian account of the affair slates that the Czar was not among the hunting _ parly, and that bis physician .accidentally shot General Werder.

Naw York, Oct. 10

Rube Burrows, the notorious train robber and murderer in America, bias been shot’while attempting to escape from custody after killing a railway guard and fatally .wounding another pferson.