TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2118, 30 October 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND’FOREIGN. London, Oct. 21.

Mr Gladstone, in addressing a meeting at Da'keith, urged unification ol the three Scotch Churches, and s.ated-be had left disestablishment lo the decision of the people. Ho condemned the overruling of'the Scofish opinion as to the Wes minister confes-ion of faith by the English members of the tlooseof Commons. He took exception to the plan of campaign as carried .out .in Ireland, and expressed the opinion that its adoption was not tokvejrt starvation. The Unoinists, he contended, were the real authors of the scheme.

The Tongariro arrived at Rio Janeiro yesterday with her cargo of meat is good condition.

Lady Rosebery, who is suffering from typnid fever, is dangerously ill. The Governors of Qn en Anne’s Bounty are'selling (heir consols and investing to a Urge extent in colonial stocks.

The Right,Bon. A. J. Balfour, Chi*-f Secretary for Ireland, has through the western districts of Ireland without an escort,

The Behring Sea fisheries dispute is being submitted to arbitration.

Oct. 28

Sir Thomas George Freake, who was arrested on a charge of having decoyed air Edward Gibson inio the cellar of an empty mansion, and then obtained the key of Mr Gibson’s looker in St, George’s Club, and removed and destroyed letters and the portraits of Mr Gibson’s mistresses has, together with another defendant, compromised the case by paying the sum of £12,000, The man Rad cl iff e formerly a clergyman at Christchurch, JNew Zealand, who was committed for trial last month on a charge of larceny, has been sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment. Madrid, Oct. 28. Cholera still rages here, and of those attacked 50 per cent, succumb, Rome, Oct. 27.

His Holiness the Pope has prohibited the Homan Catholic Bishops in America from openly assisting Messrs O’Brien and Dillon in the codeciion of money for die Irish Land League, Berlin, Oct. 26.

General Yen Mollbe was serenaded to-day in honor of his ninetieth birthday. Replying to the expressions of good will, he ascribed the success of Germany to the policy of The Emperor Willutn, The Osar, the Sultan and other European Sovereigns, also Prince Bismarck, sent congratulatory messages'to General Yon ! Moltke, The Emperor William visited the Genera 1 , add was entertained at a banquet. The absence d£ Prince Bismarck iron! the banquet was unfavbrab'y commented upon.

6s. PasßauuKo, Oct. 28

In Nihilist priming offices at Odessa and Tcherkessa three million forged rouble notes and a large quantity of seditious pamphlets were discovered.

Z*KgI«AR. Oct. 28

The Sultan of Wito having declined to hand over to the British troops the murderers of several \iermans, the troops have destroyed the villages occupied by those who were implicated in the murders. The force is now maching on the capital.

AUSTRALIAN QABLE,

MbSlbodrnb, Oct. 27

Three men were drowned ib Hobson’s Bay yesterday by the capsizing of a boat in a gale, Oct. 28.

Sailed—Wairarapa for New Zealand. In the House of Assenoh'jyj; unro ' leader of Opposition, has moved a want of confidence mqtjop in the Government aqcs tfye Bfoqse h*s adjourned. Sydney, 001. 27-

Two large fires occurred at Newcastle yesterday, a sawmill and block of ten brick bouses being destroyed, The damage is estimated at £7OOO. Oct. 28;

The Swede Hobbot, who began a 40 days’ fasten Saturday, lost 11J lbs in weight in 48 hours. At the inquest on the recent disastrous fire a verdict was returned that there was no evidence to show how the fire .originated. A rider was added,; suggesting that telegraphic wires be carried underground, and that there should be better supervision in the construction ot buildings, The colonists’ farewell banquet to Lord Carrington took place to-night, there being a brilliant assemblage, including the Governors of Victoria, Queensland, and South Australia, Albany, Oct. 27.

Arrived—Paramatta, Irom Plymouth. Passengers for New Zealand—Mr Frier and Miss fienwiok.