TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2150, 15 January 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. • London, Jan. 12. Tbn position of-the, railway .strike Is unchanged. The searaCn . threaten to block the coljiers which .continue, to .supply coal to the railways. Accidents still continue.

A Liverpool firm is building four steamers for the Aujg'alian trade. Jjp Jan. IS. By a collision bcipjen two passenger steamers in the Firth : *pf Forth thirteen passengers were lost. Arrived—-Barqoev Helejj Denny, from Lyttelton (Oct. 6th); barque Ashmore, from Timaro (Sept, Jg'h) ; barque Largo Bay, from Lytteltou.fEept. 25‘h).

A thaw has set in both in England and on the Continent. General. Booth has increased the sum which he considers necessary to have in hand from £IOO,OOO to £130.000, and he also asks that the whole of the earn for the purposes of the projected colony shall be placed entirely under his control. The Antwerp wool sales are fixed for the 20th and 21st, 4700 bales have been catalogued, of which 500 are Australian,

Silver, 4s o^l. Dr Allen has inspected the hospitals on the Continent, and seen Dr Koch’s assistant, with whom details of the consumption remedy were discussed. He sails for the colonies to-day, The Duke of Somerset, and Baron HausmtLQ, the reconstructor of Paris, are dead.

Dr Magee, Bishop of Peterborough, has teen appointed Archbishop of York,

Mr Parnell has been served with a writ for alleged libel on Dr Tanner, member for Mid-Cork.

Paris, Jan. 12. A French loan of £34,000,000 was covered sixteen times over. Berlin, Jan. 13. It is reported in this city that the Emperor William is arranging for a conference to discuss the question of a general disarming throughout Europe, It has b j en announced in the Prussian Diet that the secret of Dr Koch’s remedy will shortly be made pnblic. Rome, Jan. 12. Experiments with tbs Koch cure at the various Hospitals in Italy have given moat gratifying results. Vienna, Jan, 12. An avalanche killed seventeen people at Livna in Bosnia,

Washington, J»n. 11. The Indians are reported to ba fighting among themse'yes. The Government troops are lightening the investing circles. Scoots report that many braves, headed by two chiefs, are marching to Pine Ridge with the intention of sobmi'tiog, Jan. 13.

Advices from the North West report that the Indians are marching towards the Pine Ridge agency evidently with ihe intention of surrendering. The: situation is critical owing to the difficulty of disarming them, and it is feared that former scenes of massacre may be reenacted.

Banian has challenged O’Connor to row him for ten hundred dollars a side.

Experiments are being made in different parts of the United States to test tba feasibility of producing r*in at will by the explosion of dynamite among the clouds.

Mr J. G. BUine is demanding r< paraation from ihe Spanish Government for the outrages committed by natives of the Caroline Islands on American residents.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Jan, 12, Arrired —Waihora. Ihe horses shipped from the Auckland sales are in good conditioa. Daring the voyage of a ship from New York a mutinous sailor named Curry attempted to stab the second officer, while arresting him on charge of assaulting the chief mate. The Utter had Carry covered with a revolver, and ns the sailor drew the knife he fired, mortally wounding him. Curry died shortly afterwards, and the first male gave himself np to the police on arrival here. Jan. 13, Wilgas, a ledger keeper of the English and Scottish Chartered Bank, has been nrrested in connection wilh the Bennett frauds on a charge of falsifying his ac counts. He was apparently working in conjunction with Bennett. The long standing dispute of the Goulbourn Cathedral between the Bishop and Captain Rofsi over the removal of the letter’s family tablet has been advanced a stage, Rossi has taken possession of the cathedral for the purpose of rep'acing the tablet, and is holding the sacred . d fice against ell comers. A number of the congregation attempted lo enter but after a scoff i were repu’sed, Melbourne, Jan. 12.

The various made at Ibe late Federal Conference of the loss tbit woo'd he sustained by the colonies if Intercolonial freetrade were established ranged from half a million to one million for each colony. A leading Customs

officer in Victoria has, however, compiled a return based on the year 1889 showing the total lose for all, excluding New Zealand, at only £390,000. Mr Mhsgrave, the well known colonial actor, is dead.

'J he imports for the year were if 622,952,000, a decrease of £1,450,000 I he exports were £13,257,000, a decrease of £492,000 on the previous year. Jan. 13. Arrived—S C 5, Pakeba from London en route to New Zealand. Adelaide, Jan, 13. The Intercolonial Free 'irade Com mission has recommended the adoption cf intercolonial free trade on the basis of a uniform tariff, and regard such as a co- ; rollary of Australlamfederation Perth, Jan. 13. A destructive cy ona passed over the in the vicinity of Logrange Bay yesterday. Starling about fifty-two miles inland it travelled at a rapid rate, uprooting a number of telegraph poles in its track. A great omount of damage is and one station lost a thousand sheep and forty bead of cattle,