TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2193, 25 April 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

j ENGLISH' ■ ! London, April 21. j Collins,&-Co!,Australian Merchants, liave failed '.for £42,<3oo,;,tb<;ir .assets Iving £28,000. ; friend? have, ad-v-nced. the capital <o give them another start.; i Mr W. . H. S«oitb,i ia , reply ,to : a question, DCpbaiD. M.P., •-re.tqrn^. i M«hin i ;dß« J {answer the charge ~against ; iuqa w ,.bf, would move for his expulsion s from tbs HoUSf. • ! Mr Hsikas, Postmaster Genera', lasaerta that *, .penny postsgeto the colonies and India - would involvp an ,d «f it tonal .loss, of £7s,oQoi, per sppßtp.. The Re?,; G«o. Osborne, Wesleyan eader, is R eam freights ; are at prspentr. disorganised./The(>P. and P. Company; are taking; ropgb, measursmeut at £1 and Xyser at 17a 6d per top. , The dissolution ,of Parliament in the aotuma is assured. Sir J. P. Garriok,, AgentGeneralipr Queensland, has sont an ;«gent to Pied-: 1 moot: and in Italyp; to: select agriculturists.wh« are experts ■ in. fruitgrowing,- and who era willing tojemigrate, to Queensland; jHe pjroposes to send 850 men to that colony from Genoa at the end of June. : . lbs. Trustees*! Liability Bill, which; (be Government-proposedo. introduce! in; the House of Oommonsi will widen* the scope of investment: •of trust; funds ■ by trustees.: . , Genera! Booth has bean deft ar legacy of £IO,OOO-.- byr a ’widow named: Mra Beil, . Aprili22. Mr Morrnli, ia- Conservative,(has -been elected to fill the vacancy: forthei W ood-Block-seat i'in the House of Commons ssdsed'by the resign atiomioi Mr/ T. W. McLeflOj QiC,' ' Mr Morrell defeatsd : Mr Bensonv the Homs li'ale nominee* by 588 voles. ' , Eigfathuudred oases* of -influenza ire reported in Yorkshire, «ad many/ofthe factories' are Only able ioworfcehaif; tithe, is a 1 large ;-nnmber of tfie hands are iffacted, The- disease is prevalent in London, ’and numerous: cases 1 are resorted. The estate of Messrs William Watson, nereban s, of London -and-Melbourne, vho failed in February dastbowith iabililies■ amount ing to> £ 180,000, will •?nliso 12s 6d in the- jB. : A partner- in The firm ofClement and Sons, of Glasgow- has’ started for. New Zealand for ahe purpose of erecting co- > per alive butter - factories in-that colony, Mr Tina He*ley*> in addressing a meeting' at Dublin, of members of a new Leagne- formed by seceders from: Mr P-rmll, accused the latter-of causing the cclLpse of the-Plan of Ganjpagn''aß sn act of vengeance, Lisbon* April:22-. Intelligence has ' been » received l 1 of a serious risihg :i at, Bissau, > seaport -in RetiegambikV-- Six ihomand : na*iveßat-: i ncked four hundred Port ngnese l and native troops and defeated -them.- The raso-tliies on the Porlngdese-sids were! 4 officers and 71 men killed <- : an’d 22 wounded. Reinforcements are to be pent from here -to assist in-quelling the rising. Paris, ApriL22. : The Courts have c -nfined 5 the reaoln-; lion passed l»y the Conh'ci!' of Fcreigh; Oo onies permitting colonial ' trading companies in the' Pacific 1 to emp'dy convict labour; BbR-lin, April- 22. fha warehouses bn the Bandthor Quay, Hamnnfg, have beep destroyed ty fire* 'ihe loeses exceed 2,000,000 marks. St. Petersburg, April‘22. The ,Russian Government are purchasing a million fiflss in Anstria, April 23. The expolpton of 14,000 Jewialt ortisans from Moscow is decreed,’ and preparaiions are being for, expelling a similet huthber from the citvl B OMH, A pril 22 The Italian Governm-ht-is (expelling Ararcbista' from" Italy'' with; a view to cifeventihg trotible on May Day 1 foFi.A, April 28. A fresh plot for the overthrew of ihe GovernraPH'. has been discovered, A Rupsiah Agent revealed ih,e delays,which led to a numb'er of the'ringleaders being placed under arrest.' . Christiana, April 23. A serious outbreak of influenza bat tak--n place m this city. Washington, April 22 . It is probable that Mr, J. G, Blaine, Secretary of State,, will' ba nominated for the Presidency./ The Italian Consul at New Oilcans insists that all of those.-lynched except two were Italian subjects, At the r» quest of the foreign Consols in Samoa, the American craiger Charleston has been ordered to Apia to preserve freedom of election in choosing a successor to King Malietoa, April 23. Scotdale. in Pennsylvania, ia in a pU to of anarchy. A desperate mob pnriounded the works, firing guns and exploding bombs, 'ihe sheriff is powerl?0B until the troops arrive.

~Nbw York, Aprib 22. On Monday no lees than twenty murders And suicides were reported to the city police. The Republican'Cltibd sitting at Cinoianalti denounced .the secret society of the Sicilians, known as the M-ifia, and amidst wild applause it waa resolved that -not one do'lar be paid or an apology teedered to Italy, even if war resulted. St. Johns, A prii 21. ! The police have arrested many fishermen trying to run the b'ookade with a ibait for French fishing vessels. | The enforcement of the Bait Act against ’Newfoundland fishermen has led to their Ishowiag a-defiant at titude, and ■ they still {continue; to cany bait to St. Pierre, ao j island off tbe> south coast of N-wfouodland, land » fishing station halo igmg to-the French. ! ■ EiNGSTpNi April 22. The Jamaipb ( Exhibition, which w»s opened, on Jenunry ,27th by Prince George of Wales, is a failure. Calcutta, a pri I 22. It isrpportftd that sixty-two, allies of the British prisoners in the bands of : tbe Manipnre.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne. - April >22. The Cabinet has been reorganised iMr.MoLeau becomes Chief Secretary and Minister, of Lands ; Mr.G. Tqrner, ;of St. Ki’da, Commissioner of Cnstoms ; Mr Graham, Minister of Agriculmre ; ;Mr, A. R. Outtrim, Minislrr of Forests ; Mr Frank Stewart, at present a m>-mb -r of the Government, without portfolio, •has resigned on account of Mr lurnet’a -appointment. The Trades’ Congress, which opened at Ballarat to-day, passed a resolution -expressing sympathy with the Queensland shearers on strike, and »eo one pledging them financial support, A motion to invite .Sir G. Grey to atienu the sitting was carried with great enthusiasm. Captain Mansell, Aide-de-camp to. the Governor of South Australia, was run over by a train at Richmond and killed. April 23. Cornelius Harrington, who kickdid hig wife to death at Welballa, has been sentenced to fifteen years’ peoai servitude. A committee of medical men have decided that Colston, who murdered Davis and bis wife- at Nar bet hong, is suffering from paralysis of tbo brain, and cannot be held accountable tor the deed. Sydney, April 28. H.M.S; Orlando called at Norlolk . Island on her way from Auckland, for the purpose of bridging Bishop Selwyn <>u to Sydney, bat bis L irdsbip was too ill to leave the island. The Commiefionera who held ao enquiry into the Middle Bead disaster, when a gua cotton mine exploded and killed;four men, have submitted their report to ;the Government. They find thifc Liemooant Hammond, who was io charge of the liuncb, and Corporal McKee, both of whom were killed, wore alone to blame for the exp'oslon. Adelaide, April 22i The trans-continrntal , exploring ex pedifion left Peak to-day, and ,will be ;abaent;. about . twelve - months, .during which time it will endeavour to fill up |tbe blanks in the map representing Central Australia. Sir T. Elder is furnishing tbs means for the expedition, which will be under the command |of Mr Lindsay, of Adelaide. . ! The Minister for Eduoatm' * DO s re lliised lo receive, a dap'ntaiioa ofeiergymeo who niSued him to consider tba introduction of the Bible into the State schools. | Hobart, April 22. | : A Gazette has been issued prohibiting sealing at the Macqnariea and tho adjoining islands under heavy penalties.