TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2189, 16 April 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, April 13. | Influenza is prevalent in Sheffield, and ' is spreading' througbhul Yorkshire. ' ■

| A notbef trial has been made with the Australian tdfpedb'gnbboat Karr aka It a, and this lime it has been attended with success. The ptlter topedo boat"'Boomerang is completefeand ready for sea. The Star state®liat warrants have been issued H Yerney, rn inhe’r tor Bncbsi and against one of (IA Ulster members, for separate grave T6e Ulster man is a eged to have absconded,

The average price of the Victorian loan is £97 Is 4d. l enders for the Victorian three million loan were opened *o-day when it was found that only £1,970,000 had been subscribed, One tender was added in order to make up £2,000,000, and: the balance was withdrawn. It is believed that neither syndicates nor banks (en-d-red. Wool is firmer and unchanged.; Paris, April, 12. Paance is mobilising troops on lh» German frontier. April 18. Madame Melba’s house baa been burned. The prim* dona escaped, by a ladder in her nightdress, carrying her jewels with her. She canght a severe cold from exposure to the night air. Yiewnx* April 12. Russia continues to concentrate troops on the Austrian frontier New York, April IS. Stdythe’e furniture wbarehouse and the Dime Museum in Chicago have been destroyed bv fire, The loss is estimated at 2,000,000 dollars. blight hundred fire men prevented the flames from spreading ! t6 the adjoining buildings. The audience in the Jiaymarket Theatre and Dime Museum escaped in safety from the burning buildings through the police 1 maintaining order with loaded reVolvers. Many of the wild animals and 'monsters in the museum perished’in the flames. Influenza has spread to tbircity* sod Brooklyn. Numerous : deaths are reported and she coffins are conveyed to the burial ground b wagons, heirses not being available in suffieient numbers. The confession of Polity one of the New Orleans victims, 'which has been published’ proves that those lynched were guilty of the’murder of Hennessy, chief of the 1 poliee.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, April 18. The ex-New Zealanders resident in Melbourne wamly welcomed Sir George Grey on his arrival, in tbe city and presented him with an illuminated address. April 14. It is estimated that the losj on tbe Victorian railways for the year . ended 80th June will amount to £300,000, which the Commissioners attribute to tbe s rike. , ; . Sydney, April 14. A woman named Dalton was battered to death with a branding iron at Surrey’s Hill, within a quarter.of Sydney. The body was terribly mutilated, and her busb .nd is suspected, from Wellington* Mr W. Bradley, a Pro'ecionist and anti-Federa ist, «as elected 1 for East Sydney to-day, and Mr W Graham, a Protectionist and Hepubicou for Newcastle, Brisbane, April 18. The floods at Cairns have drowned over 500 head of oaitle:snd 200 horses. It is not atipresent known weather any human liyfiß have been lost. / Hobart, April 14: A hbtribie murder is reported Irbm Pftidy Bdy', ‘ A man : nanied Qoainby, in « fit of jealousy! out of the bead of a widow namad Davidson with a carVihg ktiife, and thfm inflicted serious wounds on himself, which it is believd wilt prove fatal. The murder is surrounded with i-f'cutiar circumstances.