TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2177, 19 March 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, March 14. It is rumored that the, Portuguese authorities have seized the steamer Countess of CarnarVon,’ which was asecending the Limpopo river with a cargo of arms for the British South African Company. A great Imperal Federation meeting 1 w»s held at Leedg to-day. Lord Brassey urged the appointment of a Royal Commission to enquire into the advisability of a customs union with the colonies, and he advised that an Imperial Con-fi-rence on a combined system of defence should be field at an early J date. Also that an advisory council to the Colonial Office should be appointed or the colonies admitted ; to share in the ooniuct of Imperial affairs. Arbitration r« Newfoundland afiiirs is to be confined to the dispute over the lobster fishery rights. At a meeting of the Bank of England shareholders a profit of three quarters of a million was reported and a dividend of per cent, declared. Mr Lidderdale, the Governor of the Bank, said that the llabilisies of Raring’s Bank amounted to ! £21,000,660,800 assets to £25,000,000, The outlook was hopeful. Lord Granville has been seriously’ ill, but is now improving. Sir C, Tapper is sanguine that reoiproc ty between the States and Canada will be agreed to. The House of Commons adjourns on March 25th. It is,.expected that the Irish Land Purchase Bill will be passed through ali its stages, March 17.

Arrived— Asterion, barque, from Napier (Nov. 26th) ; Jessie Headman, ship, from Timaru (Nov. 11th'). The Australian torpedo gunboat Elarrakatea on her trial trip was unsuccessful, and she is now engaged in repairing for machinery at Sheerness. The steamer Countess of Carnarvon, which was seized by the Portuguese, has been taken to Daiagoa Bay. She ascended the Limpopo river at the express wish of Gongahaua, a chief who repudiates vassalage to the Portuguese. The Marquis of Salisbury states that the action of the Portuguese authorities in seizing the steamer Countess of Carnarvon was unjustifiable unless the vessel was landing arms on Portuguese territory. , ,

Sir Joseph W. Pease will interview Mr J. B. Patterson, formerly Commissioner of Trade and in Victoria, with reference to prohibiting the importation of opium in the Australian colonies. , .

Sir Frederick Napier Brdone, formerly Governor of Western Australia, relieves Sir Walter Sendai as Governor of Barb'adces.

The Right Hon.' J. Lowlhef addressed a meeting at Cambridge, He declared that free Trade was mistaken idea, as it throttled and"be , believed it would drive the colonies to atoms. Paris,’ March 14. News irbm Tonquin r-porle that the rebels have Backed Cabo aad massacred the French officials. Berlin, March 14. Herr Windhorst, parliamentary leader of the Catholic Party in Prussia, is dead. . The Emperor, replying to a deputation from Alsace regarding the passport regulations, said he hoped to be able at no distant date to permit the facilities for frontier intercourse lobe increased. _J.be more loyalty the Alsatians displayed the sooner would the restrictions be removed. , , ! Dr Miguel will probably be General Caprivi’s successor as the Chancellor. , , Madrid, March. 16, The Spanish iQovernment dispute the German protectorate over Providence Island, Vienna, March 14. Baron Hirsch has given £400,000 to help Jewish emigrants to the United States. Buda Pbsth, March 16. A swamp below this city containing three quarters of a million acres, which had been reclaimed at a cost of £2,000,000, ‘has been inundated and the crops ‘destroyed. Belgrade, March 14. The Servian Radicals advocate the expulsion of both King and Queen, Brussels, March 14. King Leopold will probably be arbitrator in the Behring Sea dispute. March I§.

King Leopold visits London to consult the Imperial Government in connection with Congo affairs. Calcutta, March 16.

Upwards of 200,000 Hindoos took part in a grand religions service iq Ibis city. Adyanlag o wes taken of the opportunity to protest against the alteration in the age of consent. The proceedings caused great excitement in the city. HoKg March I§. Three hundred Chinese pirates have been beheaded at Kwong Lung. Washington, March 14.

The lunatic asylum at Nashville, Tennessee, has been burned, and five

hundred patients were at large .for a time, but most of them were subsequently caught. , A cigar factory and thirty-five other buildings were burned at Syracuse, New York ; damages two million dollars. Secretary B'aine and Sir J. Pauncefote are arranging for, a convention re the Behring Sea difficulty. March 16. Excitement among the Indians is increasing again. San Francisco, March 14. The Californian Legislature have granted certificates to Chinese now resident in the State but will exclude all others. New Orleans, March 14,

A number of Sicilians in New Orleans belongingJto a secret society, who were recently arrested for the. murder of Mr Hennessy, Chief of Police,were acquitted. The Public were so enraged that a mob of several thousand persons pillaged the gun shops, forced the prison doors, and shot eleven of the Sicilians in their cells, They theh'proceeded to threaten the jury, and the military were called out. Ottawa, March 14. Canada is raising a loan of £2,000,000. St, Johns, March, 14. Newfoundland disapproves of arbitration, March 16, The Premier of Newfoundland considers that arbitration confined to the lobster fishery will be useless, and he condemns Parliament for assenting to it. Rio de Janeiro, March 14. The Tongariro arrived all well yesterday, with her £roz°n meat in good condition, Buenos Ayres, March 14. The Banks have re-opened and the panic has subsided. Valparaiso, March 14. Ibe whole of the army except the Santiago troops have joined the rebels. President Balmaceda shot fitty prisoners because the rebels shot a leading Government supporter. During the bombardmeat of Coronel two hundred persons were killed. March 16. The Government troops have sustained further defeats.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sxdnet, March 19. Arrived—Hauroto from Auckland. March 17. A boat capsized in Shoalhaven river this afternoon, and three of the occupants, Winifred and Maud Griffiths and Alice Mulley, were.drowned. Melbourne, March 16. Thomas Phelan, locomotiye driver,who was sentenced to death for the murder of his paramour, Ada Hatton, at South Yarra on the 15th January, was hanged ' this morning. Perth, W.A., March 17. Wyndham, a town on Cambridge Gulf, was visited by a cyclone and one- | third of the town completely destroyed. No loss of life is reported.