TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2148, 10 January 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Jan. 6. Nine of the children who were burned at Leeds Bazaar bare died. Delaney, another of the JPbcenix Park murderers, has peen released, He was a witness in the limes-Parnell Commission. The Financial Times eu'ogises the oat.look m New Zealand. General Booth declares that be been offered millions of acres of land in the colonies for the purpose of carrying! out bis colonisation scheme, Government are arranging with the: Admiralty to take the entire charge of all guns and stores of the fleet, the War Office retaining only the land services. The work of laying the new cable! through the Red Sea has been completed. Preparations are being made for laying! another cable between Aden and Bombay and a third line of cable between Madras; and Penang is ready to be put down,. The new cable tariff wonld come into operation much sooner if the AgentsGeneral were instructed to sign agreements with the Cable Company on behalf of their respective colonies. A syndicate, of which Mr David Oppenheimer is the head, is being formed with a capital of half a million sterling to take oyer and work all the antimony mines in New Sooth Wales and Victoria, The ore from the mines will be treated by the new process. , The Union Bank of Australia baa declared a dividend of 14 per cent, end carried £16,000 forward to next year. R.M.S. Rimntaka arrived et Plymouth to.day with her passengers all well and her cargo of frrz?n meat in good condition. Jen. 7.

Mr Balfour has returned thanks for the generous response to the appeal i.-sned by the Lord-Lieutenant and himself on behalf of distressed Irish families. The mortality in London owing to the hard winter is 600 above the wiiekly average. Edward O’Brien, another “Invincible,” baa been discharged from goal. Tha directors of the National Bank of New Zealand have declared a dividend of 5 per cent, per annum,

The value of the imports lor the year is £5,700,000 below the previous year, while the exports show an increase of £14,600,000. Princa lienry of Battenburg ,has been appointed Governor of the Isle of ;Wight, Paris, Jan. 7. The revenue for 1890 shows a surplus of 60,000,000 francs (£2,400,000.) Rome, Jan. 7. An Anarchist conference at Sigdioli, in Northern Italy, passed resolutions urging the initiation of a general agitation on May Ist. Berlin, Jan. 6. The Emperor of Germany reoognises jlha Republic of Braxil, St. Petersburg, Jan. 6. The Russian troops stationed on the | German frontier have , been; ordered, to I retire. Calcutta, Jan. 7. The Indian Government intend to I raise to 12, but will not otherI wise interfere with the system of early lmarriag.es which baa been so much ; criticised of late. Washington, Jan. 6. Mrs Sheldon, an American lady, intends to explore Central Africa with a body guard of soldiers and negresses. Jan. 7. The reported battle with the , Indians was only an attack on a provision train. Short-Bull, the Indian leader, threatens to capture Pino Ridge regardless of cost. It is defended by on'y six hundred regulars. Johns, Jan. 7. Newfoundland asserts her right to expel Frenchmen and leave France and England to settle the issue. Capetown, J«n. 6. The National Bank of South Africa, with a capital of £4,000,000, is being formed. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, Jan. 7. The gold yield in Victoria last year was (be lowest for the past ten years. There is considerable excitement in Tasmania silver stocks and a boom has set in. Sailed—Yesterday, Tarawera, for the Bluff. Tougariro to-day for Ilobart and New Zealand, Jan. 9. The first mail to the United Kingdom under the rate of postage shows an increase of 60 per cent, over the number of letters forwarded under the old tariff. The Zalinski gun purchased some time ago by Victoria has been taken over by the Imperial Government, and the colony thus gets rid of what looked like a white elephant. Sydney, Jan. 7. Sailed —S.B. Fifeshire, for New Zealand. Jan. 8, It has bean discovered that Bennett, late manager of the Paddington branch of the English and Scottish Chartered Bank, perpetrated bis frauds with great ingenuity. He appears to have operated upon the London Chartered Bank as well as bis own bank by means of title deads and other securities, His defalcations amount to folly £20,000. Arrived—s.e, Rolokino from Timaru ; German warahip Sperber from Samoa, Sailed—S.B. Wairarapo, for Auckland, Hobart, Jan. 8. Arrived—R.M.S, Doric from London, at 8 o’clock this afternoon. She brings 60 passengers for Australian ports and 97 for New Zealand. The Doric resumes her voyage to New Zealand at 8 o’clock to-morrow morning. Thursday Island, Jan, 8. A tribe of head banters have annihilated a village of 40 inhabitants, and are preparing to take the next village which .is .next to the residence of Mr Cameron, the Government Agent, whom they also tbreatren-to attack. A fore* of constabulary has been . sent from Moresby to protect Mr Cameron.