TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2199, 12 May 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISHMAN!) FOREIGN. May 7. Influenza is spreading throngh London io an alarming extent. An English nobleman is reported to have won « quarter of amibion francs at Monte Carlo in oho coup. The 'Times says that the acceptances in Barings' estate have been run off to within half-a-rnil!ion. -The prospects of a satisfactory 'realization are improving. Mr W. H. Smith’s acceptance of the Wardenship of the Cinque Ports compels him to . seek re-election for, the Strand, the constituency he represents, ■ Lord Chancellor Halsbury is appealing Er £IOO,OOO io enable the Church and Salvation Armies ToWtend their field of operations in the colonies, " Jhe death is announced of Thomas Hare, the inventor of Hare’s system of Parliamentary representation. 'The Agents-Qeneral have bden instructed to aaply for two votes to each rolony at a meeting of the Postal Union cFiegit'S, but they are not likely to < htain them.

I Tue Union Steamship Company’B now steamer Ovalan, bound from Dnmbarton t.o Port Chalmers, has put.into Plymouth wiih her machinerv disabled. Hie Russian Government is threatening to withdraw iheir gold credit from London and Paris, but if they carry out their threat the Rothschilds will colled sufficient bullion to replace the amount Withdrawn, J The Pall Mall Gazette says that moving, troops in Becbuanaiand means drifting into a war with the Boers. | The Newfoundland delegates are Indignant at Lord Knutslord publishing information which, so they contend, places them in an unbecoming position. May 8. Mr Parnell declines his opponent’s proposals for arbitration regarding the Paris fund. Thirty members of the Honse of Commons are down with influenza. Judge Smith has written to the Speaker announcing the sentence on Captain Verney. Mr Goschen on ,Tuesday moves hia expusion from the .Bouse, | Mr Brym?r, who has bean elected for the Southern Division of Dorset, is a Conservative, and was returned by a majority of 40 votes. Mr Goschen, Chancellor of the Excnequer, to-day informed a deputation for the Associated Chambers of Commerce that « lour months’ nial of the lettir rate with the colonies showed that the number of letters had increased by 14 per cen’., but the cost had increas•■■■ 43 per cen ! , . E'iug questioned as to Imperial penny Postage, Mr Goschen said that ihe Pcs'mesler-General did n>l admit that the adoption- ot such a system wouitf only involve an annual oss ,ol £70,000. ■ May 9. The Bii isii haveanii'-xed country in West Bechuanaland, sn i are preventing Boers and Damans fr< m trekking there. Fit s members ot tii < !Dus ■of Comluons and a 1 lh>- tabl-. c'< rks < xc*‘pl one ate down wiih.influenz*.

At the Parliamentary election to fi i ihe vacancy forTlie Harb-reugh division of Leicestershire, Mr Logan, a Radical, was elected by a majority of 489. Lisbon, May 9.

A heavy fall h»s tak>n io Portuguese stocks owing to the failure to float a loan, and the dearth of gold. By the au'hoiity of the Government coinage in silv r to the amount of £500,000 N to he made, end the bunks are to b j allowed to exchange silvr for go ! d and notes. A tun has taken place on the banks in Lisbon. St. Petersburg, M«y 9. IHe Novoe Vrerajc,. the semi-official journal, admits that the Rothschilds have "abandoned their contract for the Russian loan, and slates that ibe step was taken because the Czar rej cted their demands regarding the expulsion ofjthe Jews from Russia, New York, M«y 8. Detective O’Mal ey, who was indie ed laat mouth on » charge of being the «g nl of the Mafia Society, denies the existence of the Society in New Orleans Washington, May 7. The Grand Jury of Louisiana ignored the ItahanConsui's report on the personal history of the men who w<ro lynched, and the Consul intends to send it to Rom a . It is expected that serious complications will arise in consequence of the refusal of the Grand Juty to indict the lynchers or to take notice of the report.

Owing lo dissension among the managers, it is stated the Chicago World’s Fair is likely to ba abandoned. The Paraellitc delegates met with an enthusiastic r r cf[ti f n in Montreal. The horses were taken out of their carriage, which partisans dragged in triumph through the streets.