TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2218, 23 June 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAM S.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. Lombok, June 18. Of the total cf £127,000 subscribed towards, the. Plan of Campaign £3OOO is unaccounted for; £20,000 was granted to tenants; £47,000 went id fees to lawyers and barristers, and £40,000 was spent on New Tipperary! In the Hoaea of Commons the Bill providing for marriage with a deceased wife’s sister has been withdrawn. The Federation League intends to accept Lord Salisbury's challenge to formulate a scheme for the federation of the Empire. This Tipperary police have levied on Messrs Dillon and O’Brien’s sureties', whose recognisances ware estreated when those gentlemen escaped to America. 1 "' A ' ' June 20. Louis Tussaud’s.Exhibition has been destroyed by fire. ' n ' The census returns of Scotland show the total population to be,4,033,000.' The population of the city'.'of: Glasgow is 722,0.06, ' The first section of the Manchester Ship Gtnal, which wSsobmrnehced in ' November, 188,7, apd was openedto-dajj. 1 In tbs House of Commons the, Fao'tory Bill, limiting thehonrs of working for wameh and children' in factories and workshops, was under • diacnseion. Mir ,8,. C. Buxton, M.P. for Poplar, moved an amendment to prohibit children undar eleven years of age being employed. The Government who desired that the age ah on Id be'bo fixed at teaV years, opposed., the amendment, hut after discassion Mr. Bax ton’s proposal was carried by a majority of sixteen. ' Madame Melba, to mark bar thanks and Byrnpalby with Aastraliß, has de. bided tp; presont A host p| herself by Ferrard, to the • M'^boiiraia' ‘ ’ Public , Library.' A deputation from the Empire Trade . League waited upon tWPremier to-day and argeAtheUovernment to renoance commercial treaties’ which prevent the colonies giviog preference to British trade, fn/reply, of Balisbury promised Ihat the Government would take any chance w,bipb offered itself to 'withdrew from anfortunaite engagements,* and they were hopeful iof being in. a position to shortly mitigate the existing evil, ■ !

Pa*?!*. Jpne 17. Rioting at Fqarnies, several p#oplo were shot by the troops at the beginning of the month, iq being renewed. The workmen ‘ary diiplaying serious hostility to the aathqritW. • ■ ' Jane 19, The Chamber of Deputies have approved of the redaction of the corn duties The new tariff will pome into operation on Jqly IQih. Valpakaibs, Jane 18. The new Chilian Congress has empowered Pfesidept' Balmaoedq to expend the reirepqo according to hie; own judgments without submitting estimates, 1 to procure money witbpat the cpnpent of the Cqpgrees, to gismisy or appoint the employees of or Jo any rank, to flospenjd free dircqbaion pod the liberty of the press, apd to organise military iribaniais. The Chamber of Deputies have authorised President Balmaosda 1 to levy a' forced loan of twenty million dollars (or war purposes.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Stdnit, June 19. The Australian auxiliary squadron will visit New Zealand portd ; as soon as possible after arrival' in Australian waters." ; : " 1 The Labour Party have received a cable from Sir G. Grey congratulating them apon the success of their candid ales at the elections. The stats of the p&ties so far is Mmijitqrulislß, $7 V ; Oppositionists, Independent, 4,; Labor Representatives, 21. June 21.

All the Ministers bare been re-elected except the Postmaster-General, Mr O’Connor, who announces that he will contest the Monsro oonstitulency ftwo seats), the election for which takes place on the 80th inst. Mr Dibbs, leader of the Opposition, who was defeated in the South Sydney election, will contest Mnrnmbidgee (three seats), on Jane 29. Information has been rocsived her 6 that His Holiness ths Pope has created Sir Patrick Jeombg > hereditary Marquis of IheHolyßoasn Empire. Heavy rains have fallen generally over tbs coloiy; Another gale is blowing along the coast, and it is feared that further cisnaljtips will be reported. Brisbane, Jane 20. Three men named McKenzie, Kiley, and McDonald, have been arrested on a charge of attempting to destroy a train conysying free laborers, by sawing the piles of a railway bridge. McDonald turned Queen’s evidence and has proved the oflenoe.