TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2159, 5 February 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

, London, Feb, 1. | Mr BrAdlaagh’s funeral will take place! on Tuesday. ' • Sir G. Dilke 1 is mentioned as a candidate for Northampton in Mr Brad-* langh’s place, j Political pensions have been' granted to Sir H. Hicks-Beach and Viscount 1 Cross, bat payment is suspended for the present, ! The plan: of campaign is collapsing through failure of fhndsl The Land Purchase Committee began work on Thursday week. February 8. Sir A. Sullivan’s grand opera “ Ivanhoe” has been produced at the English Opera House : with great! success. Intelligence is to band that the Venezuelan Government have seized the British barque Lydia Peschan. Dr PJnmptree, Dean of Wells, aged 6# is dead. Paris, Feb. 3. The Supreme Council, which decided in favour of recognising colonial trading companies, also recommend that they be permitted' to employ convicts at French penal settlements in the Pacific. 1 Berlin. February 8. The German South-West African Company, with a capital of £1,600,000, have received a charter for the purpose of exploring German territory in SouthWest Africa, The Prussian Government are hesitating to take over the responsibility of Dr Koch’s remedy. Prrfiisir Bardenbeur treated a hundred surgical cases in six weeks without effecting a perfect cure in a single instance. Vienna, Feb, 1.

Dr Scbroetter, after many teats, denies that Dr Koch’s lymph will even enable « correct diagnosis of consumption to be made, and on the other hand it often extends the operations of tubercles. He admits, however, it will core lupus and intestinal ulcers, Madrid, February 3. The elections have resulted in a great victory for the Government. Among the defeated candidates is the author of the Universal Suffrage Bill, which was passed by Congress in March last almost without opposition, and ratified by the Senate two months later, St. Petersburg, February 8. The hospital at Skopin, a town on the Werda, has been burnt, and 14 patients perished, Hoke, February 2. Signor Crispo to-day tendered his resignation, and it was accepted, Lisbon, Feb. 1. The rebels at Oporto failed to capture the telegraph office, but succeeded in seizing the Town flail, which was immediately bombarded by the loyalists. Owing to the want of ammunition the rebels had to surrender. Fifty persons altogether were killed. The country is tranquil. February 2. The Oporto rebels numbrsd 600, chiefly iofantry, and were headed by their officers. They broke out from their barracks at 4 o’lock in the morning and marched to the Police and Telegraph offices. The municipal guard of cavalry and infantry, ! who remained loyal, intercepted them, frhereopin they returned to the Town Hall and nominated a Republican directorate. Desultory fighting went on till 2 p.m„ when the Town Hall was captured: at the point of the bayonet. 300 soldiers and civilians were arrested, Two were killed and 60 wounded. The rebels relied on support from all parts of the country but did not receive it. Capetown February 1. The R.M.S. Aorangi sailed for New Zealand via Hobart to-day, Brussels, Feb. 1.

The Belgians had an engagement with slayers on the Congo, killed thirty and released a thousand slaves. Bombay, Jan, 30. The rumor of the death of the Ameer of Afghanistan is denied. Washington, Feb, 2. Major McKinley succeeds Mr Windom as Secietary of the Treasury. February 2. Mr Blaine states that he merely proposed extended trade relations with Canada, and not reciprocity. Lieutenant Sohwaka, who commanded the Franklin search expedition in 1878. and afterwards explored Yukon river in Alaska, has been killed by a fall. ' ' j. New February 3. The miners working at Carbon Hill Alabama, have driven out tbs negroes working there. The latter stubbornly resisted, and in the struggle seventeen of their number were killed. The Supreme Court has decided to hear the Canadian appeal against the seizure of a sealer carrying on its calling on Behring Sea. _ AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, February 1. Arrived —Mararoa, from Auckland. February 3. Arrived-— Jubilee from Wellington,

Melbourne, February 3. The Government have decided to restrict the transmission of letters under* the 2£d rate to the United Kingdom until after the Postal Congress which opens at Vienna in May. Brisbane, February 3. Ihe Weather Bureau forecasts equally weather between Hobart and the Bluff and north-west from Wellington. Albany, February, 3. Arrived—Yalelta from Plymouth. Passengers for New Zealand—Mr and Mrs Buchanan, Mr and Mrs Smithy Master Johnston, Messrs Johnston, Holmes, Behin, and Gisborne,