TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2202, 16 May 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. LONDON. ; M»YI2.

The Durham' County Justices committed Mr S; K Storey, M.P. for Sander, land, for trial on « charge of prejury i|i coanection with the Dikswortb evictions. The Queen’s ; Bench : discharged Mt Storey, with costs against the JustioeEj, on the ground that they bad no juriadicilion.

The Haroaat has arrived, all well. | MVSmith list given notice to move (he expnlsion of Mr De Cobaiu from thy House after’ Whitsuntide. | , -Captain yernoy,-/who was.; sentenced to twelve mont bs’ inipTigonraeut on a charge of a grave criminal "offence, has been expelled from'.the House of Commons.

Mr Justin * (McCarthy has invited bis followers to-organise a series of country conventions throughout Ireland, for the purpose'of -raising funds ten keep the evictied tenants and select candidates to contest thefPsrnellite seats. Mr- Parnell is not likely to re-contest Cork. May 18. The Emperor of Germany proposed lb bring a retinue of seventy with him 1 on bit visit to Boglani in July, but the Queen requested him to reduce the number.

A prominent Parnellitb has joined the ranks of Mr* McCarthy's"party. Troth states that the Queen is advancing. a sum tanning into six figures' to redeem tbe mortgages on the (Sandringham estate, besides which: she given tbe Prince of Wales many sums daring the-last five and-twenty years, A severe earthquake has b»en experenoed at Ceylon, but no particulars' as to the damage are to hsnd. Berlin, May 10. Ibe Emperor William-feels angry at. the treatment received by tbe Empress] Frederickdnringherreceat visit to the ■ French- icnpital, and has expressed indignation at the attitude which the J Parisians assumed towards her. In order to show the Emperor’s feelings in the matter, General Yon Oepriyi, the Imperial Chancellor, baa ordered the m'obilisaiion of three Gerihao crops on the 1 French frontier.

Lisbon; May,T2. Owing to a run. on the Bank of Portugal' an toffieial' 1 decree has been the Government ordering the suspension of payments for- six'y days. This step baa caused a panic ihronghoo' the coudtry. The, troops and police are ; gnarding lbe Banks andpnblio buildings rbronghont Portugal. Two" women have been arrested f-»» explbding a' bomb in‘the office of the Minister of (he Interior. Ottawa,. May 12. Longevin and jMegeevy have been charged’•; before the Committee of Privileges of the Dominion ParJiflm u nc with corruption in conneotirn -: with, contracts. '1 be Jailer is jalleged. to -have received 700,000do!s. M«y 13. The Parnellite .were accorded »n iDthosiastio reception at. Quebec, They werersupported in- .tbfli-mission;by be ptiesls in itbe city,, and the colleclion which was taken the* olosoof -the meeting was very large. WAS«tN»TON,May 12.

The iSleatnerii'Looky^liow l foundered ■ ff Vancouver and fifty-fire of'dboae- on board ; were drowned;

A train ; carrying liottei btindrod torassist in combating lbe forest ’fir >B in Michigan was*; wrecked afldbaffled; Eight mentwere’killed, '\be forest' fires l iti Miehigsa* ore spreading and; the towns of * Freesoil, Sherman, Branch, and Caster bhTC been destroyed* May 18. ' Thsrrepori that‘lhe propoßed ; iriediation between - the Chilian 1 belligerents- had endedafldailnr# 'Prance, Brazihandithe'Uniied States' are con finoingntfaeir to -bring 11 shorn a peaceful settlemeut by ' m<*ans of arbitration ; and they are u confident of (success.

Rio de Jahbiro; M»j 11. The Rimutaka 1 arrived tb-day/all well; itbe froEeomeat is in good ; condition. OApEtfowKi May' 18 • ' The leaders' of the Boer expedition to 'Maßhoniland eM confident of the success of 1 the undertaking. Willofighby, leader of tbi pioneer' expedition lb Mashonaland, Officially. deniesthtf correctness of . the explanation of the Porttigaeee who fired on the British steamer Agnes, which wa» conveying a party op the Pangate titer, Calcutta, May 12. The report thai Sepagty has? been captured turns oat to be untrue. Affairs in' Minipu ra re quiet. May 13. A retaarkable revival has taken place in the wheat trade. Forty thousand tons art awaiting shipment here. Yokohama, May 12. A Japanese policeman wounded the Czarewiich with a sword at Kioto, Hia helmet prevented 1 the- fanatical polic--man’fl sword from inflicting a parlous wound.

May 14. When the dews-of the attempt on the' life of tbe Gzarewitch was communicated to bis' mother, she swooned awsj f aring that he bad been fatally wounded, The policeman was attempting to s'rike a second blow when Prince George of Greece failed the assassin to theground, Pekin, May 14. The Chinese hare set fire to thb 'Catholic mission station at W.nbu, a river port in the Province of Ngaoboei, Alb the Europeans fled from the place and-took refuge on the bulks in the river Yangtzekianp, ' U.M.S. Inconstant bas gons to. the. scene of the outrage to rescue'the refugees.