LATE CABLEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2181, 28 March 1891, Page 3

LATE CABLEGRAMS.

London, March 25

Truth asserts that the colonies are not worth spending a braes farthing on. England is always being compelled to put her hands into her pockets to assist these bantlings. The paper calls them “ ne’er-do-wells,” who will never be worth much until they are compelled to be self-reliant. It is stated the Fenians are reorganising in London and the Goverement are accordingly taking precautions. Mr Parnell is carrying on a vigorous campaign in Sligo. Both ex-King Milan and ex-Queen Natalie have been ordered to leave Servia during the minority of their son Alexander, the present king, but will be permitted to see him once a year. Ex-Queen Natalie refuses to sign the agrement condemning her to banishment. One hundred and sixty of the soldiers who were imprisoned after the rising at Oporto have been sentenced to deportation. March 26. Meetings are being held everywhere in the United States to protest against Italian secret societies. Major Pinto, the well-known explorer is seriously ill. Her Majesty Queen Victoria met with a brilliant reception at Grasse. A sensation has been caused by a story which the Pall Mall Gazette says it publishes on good authority, to the effect that the young Duke of Orleans has been seen in Paris disguised as a valet to a well-known singer, It is generally believed that Madame Melba is meant.

Mr Walter Wilson, who has been studying the English postal, telegraph, parcels post, and telephone systems, was the first Australian to speak over the London-Paris telephone. Replying to his congratulations, the superintendent at Paris end stated that telephone communication with Australia bad been proyed to be quite a scientific possibility. mf adeid, March 26,

A congress of workmen being held here advocates a general strike to secure eight hours as a day’s work. Washington, March 25.

Fifteen hundred deaths from influenza have been recorded in Chicago in one fortnight, and 700 at Pittsburg. At Alleghany and other places it seems to be declining. Valpaeiso, March 25.

The insurgents have captured Autofogasta, and now control twothirds of the Chilian revenue.