TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2122, 8 November 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Nov. 4

The secretary of the British Braked Hid Compkny Expresses himself bon ft, lent that the German process of treating ore will revolutionise the,working of the mines.

The tion. Mr B«lfoor is at present on a visit to Donegal enquiring /into the effeo sof the potato Wight. He received an oyafion. 'Seders of the New Zealand Estate Company’s debentures complain that the directors are delaying special settlements.

The underground ebofrio railway ! was succpsefti'lf opbned to-day at Glapham, -* suburb of London, H.R. H. th«rPHhbe of Woles performed: the opening ceremony. The City penlral and th* h As*ooiations of the Chambers of Commerce hsV# caused a regulation to be carried that ‘it is desirable that all imported dbad faeaf should be labelled from whbhce it bam**, when exposed for 1 sale in the British nsatkbts.

General Booth L hopes tbit Within eighteen months he will be in h pbstticin to send out weekly batbhba of/iettlisWfo the colonies which the Salvation Army propose to establish in Ahstfalasia, The United Alkali Company has beeq registered with a capital of six million pounds. Nov. 5, ■

Arrived—Ardmore, barque, from Timaru (July 15); Anglo Norman, barque, from Oamaru (Angnst H)j Westland, ship, from Wellington (August 9) ; Alice, barque, from Auckland (Angnst 1).

A syndicate is being formed to take np tho batter ebarn invented by Mr Walter Co'e, formerly of Wellington, New Zealand, which w»s awarded the gold medal at the Islington Dairy Show.

The , personalty of the late E«rl of Carnarvon has been sworn at £BIB,OOO. The property in George street, Sydney, is to be Allowed to acoamulats until bis heir, Lord Porohester, attains ihe ags of 35, when he will inherit ii. The other property of tho late earl, situated both in the eolonfas and Wales, becomes ihe property of his widow daring her lifejmd afterwards reverts to bis second son,

A deputation, which included ffilr T* Archer, Agent-General for Queensland, ■ad Mr B. M. Nelson of Nelson 8r05.,! 1 waited upon Mr B, Stanhope, Secretary for War, to-day, and asked him to remove the restriction Which had been I placed on frozen beef being admitted info 1 the contracts for supplying the army with meat. Mr Stinbopa promised to j giro every consideration to the ■ request. The tenants on Lord Carinjgton’s < estates' in Buckinghamsbitoafnd Lincoln-' i shire 'are preparing an 'address of ' Welsouie which they 'will'present to him on bis return from New ! South Wales. Lord Carrington Will'also'be'Recorded r a 1 pub ic teCeptiOo by theresidCnts bf 'Wig--1 combe (in Buckinghamshire),' an I preparations are 'already being made to receive the £x*GoVern6r in‘ a ' Worthy manner. Among the signatures to the address are those of upwards of 2000 'chairinakers, Nov. 6. Cardinal Manning has written a letter of sympathy to General Booth, in 'which he'says that OVeryOne is ehfitied to work for their bread. Paris, Ndv. 6. Mr Jcbn Higgiheon, owner of tbs 'Boland mines in New Caledonia, in, a I letter'to Le Temps, stales that Mr I Service, of Victoria, i s ept irely wrong in thinking that tha New Hebrides would be overrun with jf the Island 1 were annexed to Prapce. He says that it is probable that the transportation of reoidlyistes wonld be suspended if tha New Had rides wholly belonged to France. Nbw York, Not. 5.

Messrs Dillon and O’Brien have met with cool rec j ptions in many parts of the States.

The expedition to Largos oq the Slave Coast, sjTest Africa, which is being fitted oqt by Mr Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald, starts on Saturday. Commander V. L, Cameron will have charge of the expedition, Nov. 6. Bir J, McDonald, Premier of Canada, disclaims meddling with Messrs O'Brian and Dillon on the question of provincial law, Ottawa, Nov. i ■ Mrs Birchall. whose, husband has been condemned to death on a charge of murdering an English tourist, has presented a petition to the Minister of Justice prajing for a reprieve. The Minister has promised to carefully consider the evidence and submit a report to His Excellency the Governor, —— ->Kr— ■ AUSTRALIAN cable, Sydney, Nov. 5. Sailed—S.S, Hanroto for Wellington. The Thomsou-Houston system of over-bead electric tramway has been gucoeggfully demonstrated here,

Not. 6. fI A party : nf Jepanbae (it 'TKnridSy Ifllihl bin* (irivo Carbiit* in ctoa o( thi lairg** ci6n»a >*t'bns in Sjdnev,’and win £22,000. ( <Mr/H. C. Ro»8p1I, Goverrimi-nt Astronomer, claims to have discovered by means of photography a new universe in the Msgel'anic C ouds A repbrti pr rented to the Assembly by-a, Be!ecttG^nimittt*** ! app<i'inted to consider the Medical Bi I, shows that quackery is rampant in New Sooth Wales. Melbourne, Nov. 5. At Flinders Island. *The vessel had an exceptional experience, and after the shaft broke she drifted 190'mi>8 to the eastwAdj.rowing faarfn 'y all the lim", and the offic rs an 1 crew had great difficulty m working,'her - clear of 'lhe rocks in Bass'’# Sinaite. Nov. 6. Parliament Ins adjourned to !>• 2nd to enable ' members of the new E Cablnb' “pr*s"fit before thor oonstituenls for re-election. The nvenne for Oc'btf r shows a d - crekse of £60,000 as c rtipared with the amonnt collected 1n the corresponding month last year. At an interco'onialconference ofyachtsmen it was decided to rgtablish an Australian champion yacht race. Hobart, Nov. 6.

The city corporation has decided to electrically light the city, on « ayel'in eimilar to that adopted at Wellington, New Zealand,