TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2230, 21 July 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, July 16

Bishop O’Dwyer, of Limerick, in addressing his congregation, denounced Mr Parnell.

Mr Parnell has paid the costs in the divorce case, amounting to £IOOO. Mr Spurgeon is less delirious to-day. The weather has improved during the past fortnight. The Emperor of Germany presented the Comte de Paris with a splendid diamond pin, in recognition of the services rendered by him to destitute German women in LSnflon, Ttuth, statement in th& Sunday Times o? Sydney, rregarding petty tyranny on warships in Australia, and especially on the Ringdove, urges that the allegations should receive prompt and emphatic denial, dr the vessel should be recalled, an enquiry held, and examples necessary to save the honor of the navy made of those guilty of a misuse of their positions, Unless the disclosures as to what took place on the Egeria and Ringdove can be denied, the days of the British Squadron in Australia are numbered.

July 17,

The P. and 0. steamer Rohilla’s steam pipe burst in the Albert Docks. Six Lascars were scalded, - three of them being seriously injured, Mr Burston, Victorian bicyclist, who in company with Mr Stokes, made a tour of the world, has just completed a trip of 1600 miles through Norway and Sweden. The Education Bill passed its second reading in the House of Lords without division.

The withdrawal of a million in gold by Russia and Germany is hardening the money market. The Western Australian stocks are quoted at prsmium. Mr H. A. White considers the cruelty shown to the Russian Jews is due to Prince DolgorhkofF, late chief of the police at Moscow. He considers it ridiculous to attribute the savage treatment to the Russian people generally. July 18.

A train consisting of several waggons was overturned at the embankment of the Manchester ship canal. Eleven persons were killed and many injured. It is reported that the Emperor of Germany has abandoned his intention of suggesting that England should propose a European disarmament. It is believed that his withdrawal is due to the Marquis of Salisbury having hinted that Germany should set the example. Quelch, the Socialist, has been committed for trial on a charge of inciting operatives on strike to assault freemen.

Mr Parnell having refused to pay Captain O’Shea’s costs in the recent divorce case, he has been served with a notice in bankruptcy. The Rev. H. C. Spurgeon is a little better.

Enquiries prove that Wilkiuson’s confession to the participation in the robbery of the Countess of Dudley’s jewellery is not true. Sir William Des Yoeux, Governor of Hong Kong, having resigned owing to ill-health, Sir William Robinson, Governor of Trinidad, has been appointed to succeed him. Sir Frederick Napier Broome, formerly Governor of Western Australia, has been appointed to succeed him.

The House of Lords to-day agreed to Lord Salisbury’s motion not to hear Lord Denman for the remainder of the sitting, because of his recent absurd speeches and his motion in Committee on the Irish Land Purchase Bill.

The Paris correspondent of the Daily News states that the French Budget Committee have reduced the war estimates by £3,500,000 and increased the peace footing strength of the army by 10,000. Berlin, July 17.

Baron Hirsch intends to form a great English company to conduct the emigration of the refugee Jews, himself holding a majority of the shares. He states that he finds the selection of suitable directors, and not the scarcity of money, is the chief difficulty to be surmounted. St. Petersburg, July 16.

Prince Metcherstay, editor of the Grashdanin, ridicules the alliance between France and Russia. Teheran, July 17.

The Khurds were forcibly abducted Miss Greenfield, a British subject, have refussed to surrender her, and Persian troops are preparing to attack them. In consequence of the threatened engagement there is great disorder in Sonji-Bollak, in Persian Khurdistan, where the girl was taken away and lodged in the Turkish Consulate.

Calcutta, July 17

The Marquis of Lansdowne, the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, is very ill with influenza.

New York, July 16

The official report on the method of, execution by electricity at the Sing Sing prison is that it is the best yet devised.

July 17,

Intelligence has been received that the insurgents routed Balmaceda’s troops with great slaughter at Guaseo on the Bth inst,, and if they had pressed • the advantage gained they might have captured the whole Government army. Fighting was renewed on the 13th inst., and the insurgents, after an engagement which lasted many hours, took to headlong flight, thus losing the ground they had previously acquired. The insurgents claim that they now occupy the province of Atacama. W ASHINGTONfImiy*TtSr :

The Howell Lumber Company of Chicago has failed for a million and ahalf dollars.

Mr Blaine has recovered sufficiently to be interviewed. He expresses the intention of resuming his official duties on September 25th. Quebec, July 16.

A sensation has been caused in thg city by a report that the civic treasury is empty and the police and firemen have not been paid. Ottawa, July 17.

A Canadian cruiser confiscated seven American fishing boats which were fishing in Canadian waters. The crews were taken off the boats and landed on Dog Island. The incident has caused great excitement in the States.

Mexico, July 17,

An epidemic of yellow fever is raging at Vera Cruz, and the populace are fleeing from the city.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE,

Melbourne, July 17,

The flood water has vanished and, a scene of desolation and wreck is revealed. Much sickness, mainly attributable to exposure, is prevalent in Melbourne.

Mr H. H. Hayter, Government Statist, has issued a return giving the population of Australia as shown by the census as follows; —Victoria, 1,140,405; New South Wales, 1,134,207; Queensland, 393,938; South Australia, 320,006; Western Australia 49,835. Total for the five colonies, 3,038,391. The population of Tasmania he gives at 146,667, and New Zealand as 626,830. The total population of Australasia is 3,811,888. Considerable increase is expected in the New South Wales figures when the returns are made up, but it is not expected they will equal those of Victoria,

Sydney, July 16

Arrived—H.M.S. Rapid, from New Hebrides and Noumea, via Norfolk Island. Bishop Selwyn was a passenger from the latter place. The Bishop, though improved in health, is still unable to walk, and leaves for England shortly. July 19. Some excitement was caused in town to-day by a report that Pydus, a well-sharebroker, had levanted. It is believed that he has got clear away with nearly £30,000. For a considerable time past there has been many complaints of the great increase of gambling alleged to have been carried on in the Chinese quarter of the town. The police have been fully aware of the fact, but owing to the cleverness of those managing the dens have been unable to check the evil. Last night the detectives planned a raid on the chief estalishment, and despite the fact that it was strongly defended managed to gain entrance and arrested most of the principal occupants. The arrests were not made without considerable resistance, and no little excitement was occasioned in town, as out of forty-two prisoners, the majority are young Europeans, many of them well-known.

The unionists are acting aggressively at Bourke, and there is much is excitein the town in consequence. They cut the moorings of a river steamer which was being unloaded by free labourers. Large reinforcements of police were despatched to preserve order.

Brisbane, July 11

The motion for the appointment of a commission to enquire into the “ shearing war ” was rejected by 41 to 3.