TELEGRAMS

Temuka Leader, Issue 2186, 9 April 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS

ENGLISH SND FOREIGN. April 4. it is expected that the Victorian loan wit] realise a min|||lumof Tenders will be opened onJp.pril 13. The Banks »r,> discussing thJpndktiwri ting bat Ibeir decision bss secfet. It is reported %that a company has secured two of Broken Hi I C 'nsola property for half a million.

Sixty thousand bnmh'efators are eng»ged in taking theiCenans, l he Ringarooralf, one of the Australian cruisers, has oomdleted a ten days cruise, during whicbjshe gave every satisfaction. During the she averaged sixteen knots an hour for twenty-four h urs. A serious defect has been discovered in the shaft of the Boomerang, another of the cruisers, and it will t«ke a fortnight ro effect the necessary repairs. Mr Mathews, Home Secretary, speaking at Birmingham, said the country hardly knew the danger it had gone through in connection with the Behring’s Sea and Newfound land fisheries difficulties and what it had escaped through Lord Salisbury’s diplomacy. April 6. Mr Justice Stephen has retired. A coal trust is being formed to control the output of the chief districts of the north. Mr Parnell, speaking at Dublin, said that the Liberals were notorious for making political prisbners.and the Tories for liberating them. The Colonising Committee set np in the House of Commons, has reported that the condition of the United Kingdom does not warrant a general scheme of emigration, News has been received that a rising of slaves has broken out in Bunnah, The British agent and bis escort were drawn into ambush, five of the party been killed and eleven wounded.

Mr Gladstone gives a most indignant denial to the statement made by Mr Parnell that a number of dynamiters visited him at Hawarden in 1889, and consulted him with reference to the Horae kule proposals.

Paris, April 5

Ihe police have taken steps to prevent General Booth erecting refuge hom«s in the city,

Berlin, April 6

General Von Oapnvi, the Chancellor, states that the German South-west African colonies will be ceded to Great Britain unless the Anglo-Hamburg syndicate obtains the necessary capital, German Companies are buying enormous quantities of coal in England and America for the purpose of creating a German ring. The Triple Alliance has been ren°wed. Sofia, April 4. An anonymous letter threatening Prince Ferdinand, Princess Clementina, and M. Grekoff, unless they leave the country, has been traced by an officer belonging to the Russian embassy. April 5. M. Rendereff, who is looked upon as one of the instigators of the assassination of M. Bellcliff, Minister of Finance, now stales that the murder was the act of revenge on the part of a certain section in Bulgaria for the execution of Major Panhza for conspiring to dethrone PrincH Ferdinand. He also says that similar outrages will be continued at intervals until Russia trees Bulgaria. Calcutta, April 4.

Lieutenant Grant’s detachment captured a fort, defeating 700 of the enemy, but the last news heard of it was that the fort was surrounded and in a f erilous position. April 9.

A despatch has been received from Lieutenant Grant, stating that bt believes himself to be the only European lieutenant alive in Manipur. ibe relieving forces are hurrying the whole of the Gboorka army in Manipur to the tort captnred at Thonal by Grant,

The Mirouzai have risen and com* rneuced a general attack, A strong punitive force is proceeding to Koban to repress them, New York, April 5.

Severe floods have taken place at Ohio, and a number of families are homeless and twenty-two miles of railwey line have been submerged. Influenza is raging at Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

The efforts which have been made to indace some two thousand Indians to enrol in the infantry of the United Stales bkve proved unsuccessful. The Indians prefer to join the cavalry regiment. Washington, April 9.

Negotiations for the settlement of the Behring Sea fishery dispute on a recipro. cal basis have abrutly terminated owing to the absence of President Harrison, Buenos Ayres, April 6. The Government have decided to issue paper money on a metallic basis. The police have prohibited the Salvation Army from assembling for worship within the cry, and the authorities have refused to recognise their religion. Valparaiso, April 6.

President Baluuceda denies that he hap consented to withdraw from the

Presidency on condition that he is allowed to nominate his successor. Several ships of the German and Chinese squadrons have been ordered to Chilian waters.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE,

Melbourne, April 6.

The committee of the V.A.T.C. hare raised the stakes of the Caulfield Cup to £3OOO.

Mr H»yter, Government statist, estimates the Victorian wheat crop for the past season at 13,003,226 bushe's. Sydney, April 7.

News from the Solomon Elands state that Mr Howard, manager of Stevens’ party, of Dunedin, has been murdered at Tigi Island, While two boats containing recruits were proceeding to a French schooner lying off Tigi Island, the recruits capsized the boats in the surf and swum ashore. They barboronsly murdered the boats’crews as they landed and it is believed that the bodies of the n nfortua*te men were afterwards cooked nd eaten.