TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2226, 11 July 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. " London, July 7. During the banquet at Windsor Cjastle in honor of the marriage ot the Princess Louise, a waterpipe burst in the dining room. The steamers Duqholme and Kinlock collided in the 'English Channel, and in the confusion a number of the crews jumped overboard. Seventeen are reported missing. Hyndham, the Socialist leader, has been arrested for making,a speech in which- he urged his headers to use force to obtain their rights.'

The Tories of Darlow will vote for the Parnellite candidate, A car-driver deliberately slashed Mr Parnell with a whip to-day.

One of the humours of the election is a fox with a kettle tied to his tail and hung on a tree. This is supposed to represent Kettle, the candidate tied to Parnell,

The Rev. Mr Spurgeon's condition has not improved. Sir A. Clark, who was called in, refused to meet Dr Kind, the homoepathie practitioner, who was engaged in the case.

July 8.

It is now stated that Mr Gladstone's eldest son, who died after undergoing an operation for the removal of a tumour, died from the effects of chloroform.

Sixty thousand Salvationists will assemble at the Crystal Palace to celebrate the 26th anniversary of the organisation of the Salvation Army. Baron Rothschild proposes to purchase five and a-half million square metres of land in East Jordan on which to settle the Jews expelled from Russia.

The election of a member for Carlow took place to.day. Mr Hammond, the seceding party's candidate, defeated Mr Kettle, the Parriellite, by a majority of 2200. In the House of Commons to-day the Free Education Bill was read a third time and passed. The hearing of the Bishop of Lincoln's appeal to the Privy Council has concluded. Judgment is reserved. The Anchor liner Utopia, which sank off Gibraltar with great loss of life in March last, after a collision with a British ironclad, has been raised. Wilkinson, a clerk, has confessed to having taken part in the robbery of Lady Dudley's jewels (value £15,000) from the Paddington station of the Great Western Railway, on the 12th December, 1874. At the State banquet given by Her Majesty to-day in honor of the visit of the Emperor and Empress of Germany, there were 160 guests. The spectacle was a very brilliant one, and in splendour has not been equalled for the last thirty years. The banquet was served in St George's Hall, and plate and trophies of fhe value of more than a million sterling were brought into use. July 9.

In the libel action brought against the Freeman's Journal by Mr T. Healey, M.P., the jury were unable to agree on a verdict and discharged. St. Petersburg, July 7.

Owing to the failure of the grain crops there is a prospect of a fearful famine being experienced in twenty Russian provinces. Calcutta, July 9.

The Senaputti was sentenced to death for complicity in the Manipur revolt. He has been feigning madness and attempted to commit suicide. Zanzibar, July 8.

The Sultan met with a serious accident to-day while out driving. The horses attached to the carriage ran away. The Sultan threw himself out, and had his leg and collarbone broken.

New York, July 8,

Four murderers were executed by electricity in this State. . The medical men are satisfied that death was instantaneous and painless. New Orleans, July 7.

Batton Rounge, a city in Louisana, on the Missippi, has been visited by a tornado/which destroyed the prison. Ten of the prisoners were killed outright, and many others injured. St John's, July 7.

A great mortality is reported at Labrador from starvation and the ravages of la grippe. Chicago, July 7.

A balloon was struck by lightning to-day, and two aeronauts were injured.

Ottawa, July 9,

In cross-examination before the Parliamentary Privileges Committee, the chief accusers of Sir H. L. Langevin, late Minister of Public Works, collapsed.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, July 8. Cole, a clerk in the employ of the Commercial Banking Company, has been arrested on a charge of defrauding the Bank of £BSOO. The defalcations have extended since 188 G,

and have been carried on by means of forged office warrants. July 9. The preliminary enquiry into the accident on board the Cordelia is proceeding. It has been ascertained beyond question that the gun was properly loaded. Melbourne, July 8. The Treasurer has issued instructions to the various Departments to reduce the estimates of expenditure to the lowest possible limits, owing to the depletion of the Treasury. Hobart, July 8. A priest, officiating at Dumanway, in Ireland, has brought an action to reeover, £fiQOMJ^ the Launcestou Telegraph for publishing a letter from a Glasgow newspaper stating that plaintiff prayed to God to strengthen his hands while he committed the deed of murdering District Inspector Martin. Defendant offered an apology but the jury returned / a verdict for £l5O. *

July 9,

The R.M.S. Aorangi arrived from London at 8 o'clock this morning, and sails again at 4 this afternoon tor Wellington. She brings 25 passengers for Australia and 44 for New Zealand.