TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2225, 9 July 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London,' July 4. The scheme put forward by Mr Charles Mitchell, of Armstrong, Mitchell and Co., thefamous iron manufacturers, for working the iron deposits in New South Wales, is suspended pending the action of the new Parliament towards the fiscal and federal policy. Intending investors are favorable to protection, because they believe it will ensure the success of the undertaking. \ The evidence taken ■jjtfy the Labor Commission shows the increased prevalence of socialistic doctrines among workmen, and also the failure of the Employers’ Liability Act to afford protection to workmen. July 6.

At Carlow, where he was carrying out a vigorous electioneering campaign, Mr Parnell was assaulted by the mob and Kitty O’Shea was burnt in effigy. The marriage of Princess Louise of Schleswig Holstein (grand-daughter of the Queen) with Prince Albert of Ainhalt was celebrated to-day. Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince of Wales have sent messages of condolence to Mr Gladstone, who has lost his eldest son.

The Rev. Mr Spurgeon, who is suffering from congestion of the kidneys, is delirious. The Miners Federation at York propose to nominate twenty candidates for seats in the House of Commons at the next general election. Four thousand additional builders have struck for eight hours. The labourers employed in the corn trade at Dubliii have struck, and the men on the Grand Canal have followed their example out of sympathy. July 7.

Mr De Cobain, member for the Eastern Division of Belfast, against whom serious criminal charges were preferred, will be expelled from the House of Commons oh the 23rd hist, unless he attends and refutes the charges. Rome, July o.

The Esercrito says that preparations for war with France have been hastened on accout of the renewal of the Triple Alliance. Vienna, July 6. The flight of Baron Hirsch’s agent from Russia .confirms the miserable state of the Jews there. The Baron proposes that the emigration committee should grant facilities to enable the Jews to leave the country at once. He believes that the Russian Government are unaware of the cruelties that are practised by the subordinate officials in carrying out the edicts. St, Petersburg, July 7.

A waterspout broke over Jekaterinslow, and caused considerable loss of life and property. Sixty-nine persons are known to have been drowned, and 150 houses were destroyed. Teheran, July 4. The Shah of Persia will visit Chicago during the Fair. New York, July 4.

Severe hail-storms have been experienced in Dakota, lowa, Nebraska, and Missouri, doing enormous danlage to the crops. July 5. A bridge on the Michigan Railway at Charleston collapsed while a train was crossing, and fourteen persons were killed and fifteens eriously injured. Valparaiso, July 6.

Atrocious outrages in connection with the rebellion are stil 1 reported. President Balmaceda, fearing to murder certain victims, blindfolded them and had blank cartridges fired at them until they became raging maniacs. In other instances men’s hands were beaten to pulp in order to extort a confession from them.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, July 7. The sculling race between Stansbury and McLean, for the championship of the world and £2OO a side, was rowed on the Parramatta river this afternoon. Stansbury passed Putney Point with a length’s advantage, which he had increased to three lengths by the time Tennyson’s was passed, and this he maintained to the finish, without the slightest exertion. Time, 18min 25sec. Melbourne, July 7. A forecast of the Financial Statement shows a deficit of about a million.