TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2152, 20 January 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN, i London, Jan. 15. Millet, the sculptor, is dead, The report of the: liquidators in Barings’ estate shows that there is a substantial surplus. Mclver Bros., bf the Canard Line, Liverpool, despatch the first steamer of the new Imperial Australian Line, in the autumn. Six steamers, of about 6000 tons each, will be engaged in the running, - The certificate ; of i°f the S 9, Nepanl, which was wrecked in Ply mouth Sound, has been suspended;

Genera) Booth, who has. announced his intention of visiting Australia in September, will take 100 mechanics with him. The Cape loan of four and threequarters has been subscribed at an average of £9B 8s 2d. For the Melbourne Tramway Company’s loan'of £230,000 at per cent,, with a minimum of £IOO Bs, £236,000 was subscribed At an average of £IOO 9s lOd.

Mr Gladstone has made a donation of £SO to the fund organised for the relief of the Irish families in distress. Jan. 17. Arrived—Margaret Galbrai'h, ship, from Oamara, (Octobei 4th). Sir P. D. Bell is making arrangements to shortly convert the remainder of the old high-priced Naw Zealand loans. Jl is expected that the Admiralty dockyard at Sydney will be en'arged, and that Captain H, St. Clair will be appointed first superintendent. The Duke of Bedford, whose death was announced recently, left instructions that his body should be burped in a private crematory which he had built at Working, iu Surrey.

Countess Russell is instituting proceediogs for a divorce on the ground of cruelty. The Serpentine river in Hyde Park is frozen so hard that vehicles are enabled to cross on the ice,

Europe has been revisited by a remarkable frost, and at Naples a foot of snow fell.

Mr Bradlaugh, one of the members for Northampton, is in a critical slate of health, and his condition is causing anxiety to his friends. The Russian Commission on Petitions has returned the memorial forwarded by the Lord Mayor of; London protesting against the treatment of Jews in Russia, Berlin, Jan. 17. A motion which was under discussion in the Reichstag, providing for the abolition of duties on corn, has been rejected by a large majority, Vienna, Jan. 17.

The Turkish Minister in this city made a desperate attempt to commit suicide by inhaling gas and strangling himself. H« inflicted injuries to such ap extant that it is belieyed they will prove fatal. Washington, J»n. 15. The Free Coinage Bill, introduced by a private member in the Senate, has been passed, fixing the Unit value of the dollar at 412£ grains of silver. . , A motion has been tabled id the House of Representatives condemning the action of Canada in appealing; against the seizure of sealers as derogatory to the dignity of the United States. It is expected that Canada will withdraw the appeal! Information has been received that five of the leading Indian chiefs have surrendered to General Miles. Jan.l7. It is stated that the United States Government have made overtures to the Canadian Government for reciprocal trade relations, and that Canada has made, a request t* the English Government to be allowed to carry on negotiations. The Indians who submitted have agreed to give up their arms on General Miles promising that they will be better treated by the doited States Government in future. Altogether 4000 have surrendered, and 7COO others are surrounded by the American troops. Valparaiso, Jan. 15. The Chilian rebel fleet are blockading the port of Iquique. Valparaiso, Jan. 18. Tbo rebels, who bad assembled at Enteros. have bean disarmed,

The rebel fleet are blockading the coast from Iquiqne to Coquimbo, and era trying to induce the army to revolt. The President is accused of committing an unconstitutional assembly at Entrerios. Algiers, Jan. 16 A aevare earthquake has occured here by which fifty houses were destroyed. Zanzibar, Jan, 17. It is reported that Colonel Wiseman has attacked Machonabas’ stronghold, situated in a dense jungle, but without success. Emin Pasha is in constant hostility with the Arabs, and has killed many of them. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Jan. 16. Sailed—Waibora for Auckland.

Melbourne, Jan, 16. ArrivedyesterJay— Rotomahana, from the Bluff. A Ipconiotiye driver named Phelan, murdered his paramour, named Heaton, , ha'f severing the head from the tody, and then attempted to commit suicide. Jealousy is supposed to have been the cause of the act. Jan, 18. The police report on the working of Prison Gate Brigade of the Salvation Army contains some curious revelations, it is alleged that the brigade clothes and feeds criminals who at night are engaged in crime. Adelaide, Jan, 16. , The ship Airlie has arrrived from Rio de Janeiro, with two cases of confluent small-pox on board. Another patient is Sickening for it. Brisbane, Jan. 16. Canon Barlow, of Townsville, has been elected Bishop of Nor’h Queensland. Albany, Jan, 1,7. Arrived—P, and 0. Company’s s.s. Victoria from Plymouth, Passengers for New Zealand—Misses Peal and Pugh, Mrs Jones, Hon, Mr and; Mrs Parker and family, Colouel Parsons, Messrs W bite, Shetland, Young, Hentissler, King, and Williamson.

TOE “ BLACK DEATH.” I London, Jan. 15. i Telegrams from St Petersburg state that the disease kaonn as “ black death,” which appeared in Dublin in 1866,> is raging over the country from Snmarcand a| city of Russia, in Central Asia, to the mouth of the River Obi. The disease ia especially severe at Obdorsk, where thousands of people are dying. [ The " B'ack Death ” was a new and incurable disease which broke out iu Dublin in 1866, and caused numerous deaths, many persons of all ranks dying a few hoars after seizure. One of its symptoms was the appearance of purple batches on the skin.]