TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2236, 4 August 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, July 30. Mr Huddart has opened an office in London and is personally promoting the formation of a-new company to engage in the New Zealand, Tasmanian, land Australian trade. Several large ifast steamers have already been ordered. jHuddart, Parker and Co. will manage jthe new firm, whose head office will be in Australia ’ There will be a board jin London and probably local boards jin New Zealand. ! Father Dorgere, ofEtahomey, a kingdom of West Africa, north of~the ■slave boast, asserts that the obsequies of the late King of Dahomey are lasting for a year and that four thousand Islaves have been sacrificed on the tomb. | Mr Johh Dillon was presented with an address on his release from prison. fin replying he declared' that he would oppose the Liberals unless he was Satisfied with their policy respecting ! Home Rule. -Mr O’Brien concurred With Mr Dillon’s remarks. ' July 31. Mr Dillon in referring to the charges made by Mr Parnell, that the integrity of a large section of the Irish 'party had been sapped, characterised them as false arid cruel. f The Financial . Times eulogises the budget presented to the New ,: Zealand Parliament by the Ballance Government. A conference of influential Jews and societies / sic) .will he held in London in the autumn to arrange for 'the establishment of agricultural colonies in the Argentine, Africa, and Australia. August 1. It having been stated that Captain O’Shea had at various times been under pecuniary obligations to Mr Paraell, he now gives an emphatic denial to the assertions. Mr Dwyer Gray, of the Journal, Dublin, has renounced his allegiance 0 to Mr Parnell, but the latter is still accorded support by the

aaper. ■ 1 Mr William O’Brien has been declared a bankrupt at the suit of the Marquis of Salisbury, he having refused to pay the costs in the libel action O’Brien.y^^|jtabury 3 M*.^bich a verdict was returned for the defendant with costs. The French fleet will visit. England in August. ‘ Seeing that he has been virtually deserted by the Freeman’s Journal, Mr Parnell threatens to convert the United Ireland/ now a weekly publication, into a daily paper. " Jacques, who finished a 42 days fast in August last, has undertaken the task of , a 50 days’ fast, which is being carried out at the Aquarium, Westminster; The'latest bulletins respecting the health of 1 the 'Rev. C. H. Spurgeon state that his illness fluctuates a good deal. 1 , . Lisbon, July 30. The Chilian cruiser Errazariz is reported to be detaining many English, Spanish and Portuguese sailors. The French consul has secured the release of some Frenchmen. ’ r Paris, August 1. An Englishman has won £20,000 at, roulette “at Monte Carlo, and in order to J preveut 1 the temptation to continue ’ ganiblihg has remitted the amount won to England. Berlin, July 31. Serious frauds, at five million,roubles, have,been j discovered in the accounts of the Deutche Bank in this city. A great discovery of treasure drove has been made at Benthen, in Silesia, in the shape of a deposit of no less than a million gold coins about the size of a twenty-mark piece (nearly equivalent to an English sovereign). The, date of the coins is 1608. St. Petersburg, ‘July 28. The Czar has assured the French officers that he never believed Republican soldiers or sailors could have such a bearing as the men of their squadron possessed. July 8 0. The police have arrested 28 officers suspected of being concerned in a plot to murder the Czar, and also fortj Nihilists. The latter offered a desperate resistance and seven were killed, ’ '• August 1. | The Czar has issued a decree offer ing foreigners in- the south-westeri districts of Russia the alternative o being either naturalised as Russiai subjects or expelled from the country The decree is not favorably regards by aliens, and twenty-five thousand o the residents in the district mentioned principally Germans and Austrians have refused to become Russian sub jects, and therefore have left th country. , , Bombay, July 31. By floods in the Jugaral Province 30 persons were drowned and traffic qvi 150 miles of railway has been sus pended.

New York, July 30. The grand jury has indicted Mr Gordon Bennet, proprietor of the New ■York Herald, for publishing details of the recent executions by electricity, „' ! Ottawa, July 30. The Canadian ; House of Commons rejected Sir. R. .Cartwright’s amendiment to the: Government’s resolution 'favoring unrestricted reciprocity with the United , States. August 1. Before the Corrupt Practices Committee to-day, Peters, a contractor, ■produced a letter signed by Sir H. 'Lahgwin, formerly Minister of Public [Works, in which the latter reminds Peters of a promise made to contribute towards his election expenses. Peters [alleges that he gave Sir H. Langwin ’the sum of lOOOdols.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, July 31. In the House of Assembly, the Premier’s motion to extend the franjchise to women, has, been rejected by |23 votes."* The Electoral Bill was introduced to-day. It provides for absolute majorities by means of a second ballot ’self registration, the abolition of plural 'voting, hustings money deposit, and 'that candidates must be nominated by not less thaa six (electors. The Bill also'creates single electorates. ! Mr Sewell, American Consul at ■Samoa, w;ho has arrived here on a Visit, says the position is not at all 'alarming. He regards Mataafa’s conduct as a silent and peaceful protest agiaihst Malietoa’s policy as ICing. ! Brisbane, August 2. An important point will shortly be tried in the courts here. The Union Mortgage and Agency Company have declined to pay duty on their assets, representing the money of investors outside the colony, and consequently the Government have caused to be Served on the company a writ to enforce jthe duty. As all the other companies ;are taking a similar stand, the case may be regarded as a test.