TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2181, 28 March 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. Lon»x>n,‘March 24. In reply to a question in the House 'of Lords to-day, the Marquis of Salisbury stated that an explanation bad been demanded from Portugal in connection with the seizure of the steamer Countess of Carnarvon, while she was ascending the Limpopo river. , In the House of Commons to-day, Mr C. E. Howard Yincent, M,P. for Sheffield, asked a question regarding the establishment of a British zollvo rein. In rep ! y Sir Michael Hicks Bench, President of the Board of Trade, s’ated that under .the Belgium treaties ~Great Britain secured gfeai advantages, and that it would be useless to denounce such treaties until the country was preprepared to adopt an alternative policy, The Paris correspondent of the Standard wires that a serious epidemic of smallpox is prevalent at Grasse, near Cannes, and that 150 oases were reported in the last three months. During that, period thirteen deaths occurred, the last on the 16ch inst. The newspapers which announced that the baccarat case had been compromised under pressure from the Prince of Wales 'have bean censured by ibe Court and ordered to pay the osts. March 25. Shareholders of the Anglo-Australian Printing and Publishing Union (Lid,) are endeavoring to make Mr Horatio Bottornley, the managing director, liable for a sum of £90,000 which has disappeared Lisbon 1 , March 24. Portugal has declared Pofala and Manicalaud in a state of siege. Paris, March 24. The Maritime Congress advise that a lax of ten francs be imposed on all ships entering the ports of Prance or her colonies. Berlin, March 25. The census which has recently been taken shows the population of Germany to be forty-nine and a-half millions. Capetown, March 24. News has been received that the Governor of Madagascar, who perpe. trated the recent atiocious cruelties, has been executed. Valparaiso, March 25. The insurgents have captured Antofagasta, and now control two-thirds of the Chilian revenue. Georgetown; March 24. English re.sidents on the frontier of British Guiana are fighting the Venezuelans.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE

Melbodbne, March 24. An Indian hawker has been found guilty of the murder of one of his countrymen at Healesville and sentenced to death. Sydney, March 25. Mr J. -D. Fitzgerald, who recently visited England on behalf of the Labor Unions in Australia, in the course of a speech which he delivered before the Trades and Labor Council last night, announced that during an interview be bad with Sir Geo, Grey the latter untolded to him n scheme of nationalisation of cool mines which he intended to submit to the New Zealand Parliament next session. The remains of the wreck near Kempsey have been identified as belonging to the barque Rose M. Arrived—Tekapo. Adelaide, March 25. Dr Schomburgk, the eminent botanist, Director of the Botanical Gardens, is dead, March 26. A transcontinental exploring expedition has been arranged to leave Peake in a fortnight and proposes to be absent 12 months, daring which time it will endeavor to fill the blanks in the map respecting Central Australia. Mr Lindsay, of Adelaide, will have charge of the expedition. Dr Elliott, of Townsville, goes as botanist; Mr Helms, of Sydney, as naturalist ; and Mr S'reich, of Adelaide, as geologist.