TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2210, 4 June 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, June 1. The Queen has sent a message to Lard of Preston, Goy»r.nociof Canada, requ-eting him to pay a visit to, Sir John McDonald 'on behalf of her Majesty, Sir John if dying. Export to the Australian cobnies is; brisker than it has been for years, and. the docks are choked with goods. The aggregate tonnage in London waiting for cargoes is 80,000. uj ( Mr Justin McCarthy has decided nut to agitate for the reftisl* Dillon and O’Brien. i he Australian torpedo gunboat Karrakatta has. sailed , for (be colonies, H.M.S, Nelson replaces tha Wellington as flagship at Poriemttfth, 1 Tha Australian cruisers rendezvous at Batavia. The Times states that the contingent of the Victorian Mounted Riflss have won golden opinion by their discipline and smart . work, They have been specially invitedjto assist in the ceremony ot trooping the colours'. ‘ The msrriege of Mr C. S. Parnell and Mrs O’Shea will be celobrotedjneit week. trial of the baccarat case began this morning. The court was crowded with members of tbs aristocratic class, among whom was the Priuce of Wales. In cross-examination to-day Sir Gordon Camming admitted having won £225 from the Prince‘ of Wales. On the second nigbi(9lh September) on which they Were playiag, the Prince of W ales expressed ■ wish that tbs players would exhibit (hair stakes clearly. The Prince of Wales and two of bis friends, Lord Coventry and General Owen Williams, bad written to him jointly that in .face of the overwhelming evidence it was useless for him to deny, bis guilt. He denied the allegation that be was, cheating bat admitted having signed a document undsrtakipg'nbt to touch a card (or tba rest of his life, which he said was dons to prevent scandal. Paris, Jane 1. The Obillian insurgents,, have been successful in their action broagbt in the French- courts to restrain delivery of several warships bailt in France to the ordur of the Chilian Government Until such a time as a s'able government is formed in the Re pub ic, Home . alarm has been occasioned throughout France at the shortness of the wheat and floor supply. The Chamber of Deputies has decided to admit raw hides (roe, Berlin, June 1. A Central Committee has been formed hero to assist the Jews expelled from Russsia. la the Reichstag tc-oay General Oaprifi announced that it was not the intention of the Government' to recommend a redaction in tbe corn duties.’ St. Petersburg, Jane 1. The Jewish doctors in tbe Russian Army have been informed that they must either adopt the orthodox faith or resign their positions, and it has b-nn decided not not to permit them farther admission to the army. A socle y has be- ii established at Odessa for the purpose of asais'iog Jews who have been ordered to leave the country to emigrate to ..Greatßritain. It is estimated (bat 60,000 Jews will be landed in Great Britain in auamn. The grain crops in Russia are in a critical condition. Sofia, June 1. The Bulgarian Government has ordered 40,000 of the Austrian Maunlicber repeating rifles from Vienna, which are to be delivered in Seplemb"r, Constantinople, June 1. Information is to hand that robbers derailed a train and seized a number of English and German tourists. The German Foreign Office has consented to pay a ransom of 200,000' francs for (he release of the captives. Algiers, May 31. : Algeria has b>fta visited by a serious locust plague, and everything green has been eaten up. Capetown, June 1. The Portuguese authorities at Masbi(cesse have: ordered all Europeans except Portuguese to qoil the country. CAtbUTTA, June 1. Two of the Manipur officers have b««n enlenced for complicity in the murder of, Messrs Quinton, Grimwood, and others. Pekin, Jane 1. General Fchiug Ki Tong, formerly Chinese Minister in Paris becoming in. volved in financial difficulties, was re. called and on bis arrival was arrested t and has been condemned to be beheaded^

ping that * barometic disturbance is about to be experienced, approximately latitude 86 south, longitude 158 east, passing over the Pacific in a northeasterly c >arse, probably between Norfolk Inland and the North-Island of New Zealand.