TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2187, 11 April 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. . Londok, : April 4. P. T. Barnum, ‘.he famous showman, is dead. > The St, Petersbury correspondent of (he Daily Telegraph .says that a conspiracy against the .Czar has been discovered, in that city. ; In the .House pf ,Commons/ to-day Baron De Wormsi stated/; do to Mr Pritchard Morgan, M.P., that the attention of France would be called tr the tn itter of the proposals of the C-lonial Conference at to permit co noising .trading conSbanies in the Pacific to employ conyiclnabor, The bearing of the action Salisbury v O’Brien has been postponed till August, Telephone communication is established between London . and Marseilles, and has proved a graat success, April 6. • The last month’s imports show a decrease of £887,000, and the export an increase of £1,598,000 as compared with the corresponding moOth 1890. Tha. police made a raid on the Agar Club, situated in the Strand, to-day, and one .hnnbred of those on the premises were arrested for ploying baccarat. -The first mail of (bimonthly service between China and England, by way of Canada, has arrived here. The Empress■■■■ Frederic- and her daughter the Empress Margaret, who have been on a visit to London, have sailed for Berlin. There has a been heavy collapse in Argentine securities, the average fall being £5. Paris, April 8. The International Colonial Exhibition will be held in Paris in 1892. Berlik, April 7. The ship canal between the Baltic and tbe North Seas.has, been completed and was formally opened by the Emperor 10-day. St. Petersburg, April 7. ; During a review of the Guards in this city a Nihilist was arrested on the stand reserved for the Czar and nobility. He had a revolver and a powerful poison globule in his pocket. The Czar would bare had to pass within a few paces of the man, who fortunately aroused, tbe suspicion of tbe officials im lime to prevent him doing any mischief. After tbe arrest tbe Czar returned to tbe palac* at Gatschina. ; The Czar is incensed at the secret piarriage of the Grand Duke Michael with the] daughter of the Duke of Nassau, and as a mark of his displeasure has deprived the- Grand Duke < of all the military ranks held by him in tbe Russian army, Sofia, April 6.

I Stambooloff has expelled the Russian Kavass, to whom an anonymous threatening letter to Prince Ferdinand and others was traced. Rome, April 8.

A number of Italians have subscribed a bronze wreath for presentation to the two men-of-warstnen in of t heir h»roio conduct in saving life when the s.s. Utopia bound from Genoa to New York with a large number cl Italian immigrants on board, collided with 11.M.8, Anson off Gibraltar last ,month and foundered. WASHINGTON, April 8. The Customs department of the United States is charging double duty where wool is assorted . before importation, i the mission of Sir Charles ( .Topper, who is in .Washington on; business connected with the re-opening of negotiations for the settlement of the Behring Sea dispute on a reciprocal basis, is regarded as a. humiliating fai nre. M»jor McKinley insists that President Harrison should cease negotiations. April 8.

; In connection with the reciprocity negotiations it is reported that the President was incensed it Sir J. McDonald's election tactics in the United States.

A serious riot occured at. Chicago toin connection with the mayoral e eotion. One person was killed and several others received serious, injuries.

■ The New York Herald states that it is not likely reciprocity will taka place under President Harrison’s i Government that. farther parleying is neither expected nor desired. It has been arranged to indict the leaders of the lynching outrage in New Orleans on the capital charge. St, Johns, April 7.

The Premier of Newfoundland, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, the leader of the Opposition, and two others,, who were appointed delegates to jn ( erview the English Government to protest agaipst Imperial coercion, have left for Epgland, Calcutta, April 7 .

Sharp fighting has_ t*ksn, . place in the Samana mountain - with the Muraowoi. Nine of the rebels were killed,

Valparaiso, April 8. 'the troops stationed in the northern part of Chili .have joined the rebols. Buenos Atrbs, April 8.

The Government of the Argentine Republic.has suspended payment of deposits ini the Natfonal and Provincial

Banka until June next. Depositorsbave been offered bonds for due payment of their deposits; and it is proposed to form both the banks into State banks.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, April 9. Ponods who was connected with (ha Mount Otway pla'innm frauds, is insolvent, liabilities £137,000, assets £112,000, Since (he reduction in the ocean postage io2£i the correspondence with Great Britain Las nearly doubled. Sydney. April 9. News bas been j received from the inlands that the barque Pusnaea fromMelbourne, was totaly wrecked on Howland Island (one of the Gi bert Group) while loading guano. Her crew reached shore in safety and were rescued' by tbe Auckland ebooner Maiies which bad to : cruise about tbe island for ten, jdays before the castaways conld be taken off. Brisbane, April 9 . Serious floods have occurred in tbe Cairns district. “- Several families bad to seek refoge in trees, t raffle is suspended and many coach and •.packhorses have been drowned. Adelaide, April 8 i Mr J, R. Cox, the delegate of the Irish party under tne leadership of Mr Justin McCarthy, has arrived here from London.