TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2228, 16 July 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN,

London, . July 12,

The parish priest who nominated Mr Kettle, the Parnellite candidate for Carlow, has apologised, at the instance of his Bishop. The official estimate of the grain yield in the United States is 511,000,000 bushels, showing an increase of The Standard says that will want double the available American surplus. It is not likely that Russfa will have any to spare and she will; possibly have to purchase. tjr It is announcecl,that the Bev, Mr Spurgeon _ An embankment containing ten million tons of masonry and timber lias broken down and blocked the Manchester ship canal. The prospectus is issued of the Mclvor Steamship Company, to trade between Glasgow, Liverpool, London, and Australia, capital three-quarters of a million.

• Mr Stead, in the Review of Reviews, publishes what is reporded as an inspired defence of the Prince of Wales. He declares that His Royal Highness is in a perfectly solvent position financially, and goes on to say that the evidence in the baccarat scandal did not reveal that the Prince was in any way implicated. He adds that the Prince is eager to be entrusted with serious work, such as that of the suggested Commission on Imperial Federation. July 13. The Emperor of Germany lunched with the Marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield House to-day. He afterwards took a farewell of the Queen at Windsor, and left to join his yacht at Leith for a cruise in Scotch waters. The Empress joins her children at Felix - towe. The Prince of Wales visits Germany in the autumn. The order issued by the Duke of Cambridge abolishing the Orange Lodge Battalion, applies to the array generally. Messrs Ward, Lock, & Taylor, have just brought out “ Poems of the South,” by Bernard O’Hara, of Melbourne. The press criticisms are unanimous in praise of the Australian poet. In the House of* Commons to-day Mr Goschen formally moved that Mr de Cobain be summoned to attend in his place. The Rev. Mr Spurgeon is less delirious. Letters and cablegrams expressing sympathy continue to be received by the family from America, India and the Continent. Several English bishops and the public exhibit deep concern at the rev. gentleman’s serious condition. St. Putkksbuug, July 11. The military suppressed anti-Jewish riot in the Government of Tambor, Thirty persons were killed and many wounded. July 18. There is no prospect of Russia exporting corn, as she will repuire the yield for home consumption. The voluntary exodus of several rich Jewish bankers and merchants is seriously disturbing trade in Russia aud causing re-action against the antiJewish edicts of the Czar.

Ottawa, July 11

A number of officials have been suspended in Ottawa for corrupting public officers. It is openly alleged that public works have been run by robbers. July 13.

By a landslip in Vancouver Island the village of Nanaimo was destroyed; forty-one persons were killed and manyothers seriously hurt. Washington, July 12.

A marvellous cavern has been discovered in Oregon, as large and wonderful in appearance as the Mammoth cave of Kentucky. It contains numbers of small lakes and a waterfall thirty feet high.