TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2168, 26 February 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

; ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, February 23. The Rev. David Bruce, formerly of Auckland, has been elected to the Honorary Doctorship of St Andrew's University. Mrs Seddon the American lady who intends to explore Central Africa with a bodyguard of soldiers and negresses, has set out for Africa. ,] Mr Parnell, speaking at Roscommon, said he regarded the situation as of great import. » . the Queen will visit Venice in April. The Earl of A'beiijar'e isjdead. Suakim, Feb. 23. Osman Digna is reported ta-Jofeajßft gone to Kassala. February 23. The Department Committee »gtabisheb to enquire into and report on the •dvisab'eness ©f trustees being allowed to invest in colonwl securities, has drafted a Bill permitting the register of colonial stocks as a trust investment on certaia conditions, one of which enables the colony making default being sued io England, The Law Times nrgo3 that Mr Jußtice Stephen should be retired on the grounds of senility and eccentricity in the courts, Mr Chamberlain in the coarse of his speech denounced Mr Pirnell as untruthful and untrustworthy, It was impossible to rely on the assurances of the Irish leader. Mr Parnoll received an enthusiastic welcome at Roscommon. He said that Mr O'Brien and himself had done every- i thing possible to prevent strife. A meeting at Carrick was violently dispersed by Parnellities. Paris, Feb. 24. The Figaro asserts that Prince Bismarck is to be summoned before a court martial and called on to declare upon his honour whether he is the author of the articles attacking the German Government. Ottawa, Feb. 22. By an explosion at Hpringhill, in Nova Scotia, 150 colliers were killed. The Archbishop of Montreal has enjoined the Catholics to remain faithful to the Empire. Washington, Feb. 22. The widow of General Barandias, of Cuba, is suing the United States for a million dollarß. February 21. It is reported that Secretary Blaine is plotting for the annexation of Cuba. The sugar tariff is to bs used as a lever to that end. The elections for the Senate of the United Slates gives a mhjority advene io the McKinley Tariff. The repeal of tha wool duties is considered certain. Valparaiso, Feb. 23. The Chilian insurgents have taken Valdiova and Ta'oca. They are triumphant along the whole coast. Rio de Janeibo, Feb. 22. It was a lad "who fir.-d at General Roca, Minister of the In'erior. The ballet hin spine. After firing the lad jnmped intc a carriage and made off. It is said the motive was revenge, Uoca having formerly caned his assailant.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, February 23. A man named Divies and his wife hav-5 been brutally murdered at Ner bethong. They were despatched with an axe, and the motive is be'ieved to be robbery. February 24. Sai'ei—Sotokino, for Wellington, During the voysge of the Hauroto from New Zealand, an unmarried woman who was a passenger, gave birth to a child. Ihe Customs Department endeavoured to compel the captain to enter into a bond providing against the infant becoming a burden to the colony. He inclined, and it has now been decided that the Costmes and Immigration Department have no power to prevent he woman landing. The Vegetable Products Commission is euqniring of Sir J. Hector respecting the growth of New Zealanl flix, which it is believed would b* suitable for cultivation on the waste lands of the colony, Mr D, Bews, Minister of Educa'ion ] fur South Australia, who was on his way to the Postal Conference at Sydney died en route. While experim a nting with Professor D-'bavay, bacteriologist, and during an operation on a patient, Doctor O'BLara was struck by the antiseptic qua'ities of tho flow of chyle from the thoracic duot, and he induced ihe professor to experiment with this orgauism with a view to discovering whether it is antagonistic to typhoid germs. The new bacillino has been administsed to patients suff ring from typhoid and diphtheria and a wonderful effect is claim/id. The experiments are progressing. Thomas Ph'l-m, locomo'iv« driver,!)ns been sentenced to death for the murder of his pararn oar , Ada at South . Yurra ou January 16th.

Sydney. Feb. 23. The defalcations of Bradley, the manager of the branch of the English and Scottish Chartered Bank, who has absconded, are alleged to be close on £50,000. The schooner George Nob'e was wrecked on the Kingsmtll Group, and the crew were cast away for four months, They arrived here to-day. Arrived—Wairarapa from Auckland, Sailed—Mariposa for Auckland . Bobart, February 23. Sailed—Warships Orlando, Rapid, tioldfinch, Lizird, and Royalist for New Zealand.