TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2231, 23 July 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, July 18. The shareholders’ committee of the National Bank of New Zealand advise that the number of directors should be reduced to six, that no fresh colonial appointments should be made, that non-paying branches should be abandoned, and tjiat salaries should not be reduced. Serious complaints are made against the South African Company for neglecting to provide proper equipment for the Mashonaland expedition. The country is alleged to be full of graves, fifty deaths having occurred at Bundi alone, and at Fort Victoria 152 out of 160 police are on the sick list. The English Bank of the River Plate, which has suspended payment, had an authorised capital of £1,500,000 in £2O shares half called up. Mr¥, H. Smith’s health is improving. A dispute is prevailing among the party as to whether Mr Mr Goschen or Mr Balfour should succeed to the leadership of the House of Commons in the event of Mr Smith’s resigning. A majority of the party prefer Mr Balfour. July 20. General Booth leaves England in the Tainui in August. He will visit the Cape, and after a brief stay will go on to Australia and thence to New Zealand. In a paper which he read before the Congregational Conference to-day, Dr Roseby insisted on the necessity of shortening the hours of labor, and the lowering of rents. The Rev. Mr Bevan dwelt upon the tyranny of capital, and said that the Church must protect the masses, or it would lose them. He declared that the Australian laborers were exhausted at the age of 50 years through overwork, and he considered that men should be enabled to save enough to live on when worked out. Mr Parnell predicts a victory for Mr Gladstone at the general election, and states that if he provides a liberal programme for the gift . of legitimate freedom to he (Mr Parnell) will not stand in the way. Mr Spurgeon has suffered a relapse. The Court has appointed a provisional liquidator for the English Bank of the River Plate, The Standard says that the liabilities are under £5,000,000. The nominal excess of assets over liabilities is £2,000,000. General sympathy is felt with the directors. The railway accident at Manchester canal was caused by a blunder of the pointsman, a lad aged seventeen years, who has been arrested. The Times, reviewing the harvest of the world, thinks it unlikely that prices will decline. July 21. General Booth intends to build an international temple in London at a cost of £200,000. Mr De Cobain, in reply to a summons from the House of Commons to attend and answer the serious charges preferred against him, states that he is too ill to appear. Sir Frederick Weld, aged 64, is dead. The Education Bill has passsed through all it stages in the House of Lords. The House of Lords has dismissed with costs the appeal in the case of Allcroft Lighten v. the Bishop of London. The result of the decision is that the placing of a sculptural image of Christ and the Virgin Mary upon the reredos has been sanctioned. St. Petersburg, July 18. The average daily number of Jews leaving towns in South Russia for the frontier is seven hundred. Later reports from the country districts state that the harvest of half European Russia is ruined. Seventeen districts require a grant of 6,000,000 roubles to provide seed. Villages are deserted by the starving peasants. July 20. The Russian press have been warned not to publish alarmist reports about the harvest. Russian officers are forbidden to make political speeches or to visit French residents. Washington, July 18. The Hon. W. A. E. West Erskine, a member of the South Australian Upper House, in the course of an interview at Chicago on the Labor question, said the recent strikes had been calamitous to Australia. Excellent sugar estates and mines had been abandoned owing to the behaviour of the agitators. The growth of Australian debt was alarming, and most of the loans had been invested in unproductive channels, Valparaiso, July 20. A deliberate attempt was made here to destroy the Government fleet but the perpetrators were discovered and President Balmaceda ordered the imt mediate shooting of ten of the culprits.

Colonel Stephen’s forces, while crossing the Cordilleras to rejoin Balmaceda’s troops, found themselves unable to advance or retreat, the passes being blocked. It is reported that the hands, feet, and faces of the men are falling in pieces owing to frost bites.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE,

Melbourne, July 20. An important discovery has been made in the vicinity of Steighlitz, about 80 miles north-west of the city. A lode containing six inches of goldbearing stone has been found. Goldstone has been sentenced to death on a charge of murdering Mr and Mrs Davis at Narbethong. Sydney, July 20, The shearers are forming camps out in the western district, and are actively engaged persuading freemen to desert their employers. July 21. Sir Henry Parkes has again written to the Pastoralists’ Union, requesting them to hold an open conference with the Shearers’ Union, A force of sixty armed police have been despatched to the disturbed district out west. The keepers of the Chinese gambling hell which was raided on Saturday night were fined £2O, and those who were engaged in gambling each £2O.