TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2241, 15 August 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

i ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. ! ■ ■'. LoNDoki Aug. 12. j The name of the young lady found shot in a first-class railway carriage at Bedford is Leonora Mitchell. Despite her statement that she had been kssailedjby a yonng man who she alleged escaped by a carriage window, It is believed she attempted to commit suicide. Details of the robbery on board the jTainui turn out to have been greatly exaggerated; only a steward's box ,was ; /- - '! W. H/ Allen and Company publishers, have failed. \' The Very Rev. G-. Elliot, Dean of Bristol, is dead. The Chamber of Commerce announces that a Syndicate in the Argentine is subscribing the entire capital for the New National Bank on condition that Government does not' meddle with the working. !j The Rev. C. H> "Spurgeori has suffered a slight relapse. ; Mr Lowell's case is almost hopeless. i A somewhat remarkable case is now before the law courts. A Miss Cooper, twenty-five years of age, accepted'an invitation from her cdusin, aged twenty, to visit St. Paul's. A cat) was procured, but instead of going /to the Cathedral the young man drove to St. Bride's and? terrorised his companion into marrying him under threat of i bpmmitting suicide with a revolver. [The same day he deserted his wife upon finding" that she had no money, and the lady is now suing to have the marriage declared null. j Mr Balfour, in his speech at Plymouth, said that the Tories had full confidence the working classes would ultimately be on their side. He felt that If'they -could not persuade them their best chance of justice lay in his party then they might despair of politics. He asserted at Plymouth ttie alliance between the Tories and Unionists was now indissoluble. August 13. I Bishop Moorhouse and others are prepared to report upon the work of the Anglican mission to the South Seas.

! Miss Cooper's application to have ner marriage with her cousin, into jwhich she alleged that she \vas terrorised, declared null and void was refused. The syndicate, who offered to take New South Wales stock privately, padejit a condition that no loan was placed on/she public market this year. ;E.:Macaffery, one of the Invincibles who was found guilty of participation in the Poenix Park murder, and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, has been released from gaol. Mr T. Harrington, M.P., secretary of the National L&igtie, has announced that, the funds are exhausted, and therefore the League is unable to continue its grants toevicted tenants. He alleges that the seceders from the Parnell Party are responsible for the position 6f the League. Mr Dillon and Mr Justin McCarthy propose to establish an evicted tenants' fund. ; Ministers state that the rumoured annexation of Manipur by Great Britain is improbable. The Manapuris sentenced to transportation will be exiled at the Andaman Islands, a group in the south-east of the Bay of Bengal. I News from South America states that in July a rebel fleet appeared off Valparaiso and threatened the town. The British and German warships in harbour cleared for action, whereupon the insurgents withdrew. Mr ParneH's friends intend to stump England and Scotland in support of his leadership. Mr Holden, Home Ruler, was elected for Walsall by a majority of 536 over Mr James, a Unionist. Paris, Aug. 12. The, firm of Tritse is insolvent Rothschilds, who are sleeping partners, lose two million florins. The Grand Duke Alexis had a popular reception on making his first public appearance in Paris. The crowd cried out " Vive la Russe." A fire started by an incendiary is raging in the forests on the south side of Toulon. Five thousand acres of woods are involved in the conflagration. The Court has confirmed the sentence by which M. Turpine was ordered to pay a fine of £2OO and to undergo two years' imprisonment on the charge of selling the secret of his explosive melinite to Sir W. Armstrong and Co. of England. Berne. August 12. Switzerland stands out of the Customs Union. Berlin, Aug. 11. The Emperor has met with a serious accident to his knee. The "nature of the accident is being Hushed, but he has found it necessary to cancel all his engagements.

Aug. 12. The prohibition of the export of rye is having a serious effect on German and Austrian trade. The Emperor is recovering from the effects of his accident, and is able to dispense with the assistance of a stick. The Mcßihley Tariff/is .affecting German trade in knitted goods and laces. Vienna,-Aug. 12. The woman Schnoider, who was arrested with her husband for decoying and murdering servant girls,,attempted to commit suicide. Her recovery is hopeless. Messrs Morpugo and Pareneti, 'bankers, - carrying""on v-business- at Trieste, have failed. Their liabilities are set down at 1 seven million florins. They go into liquidation voluntarily. Creditors will be paid in full. St. Petersburg, Aug. 11. Russia is building two ironclads of 11,000 tons in the Baltic. ■ >.. 1 Russia has forbidden the proposed Polish pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Louis in Rome. I The Government have assigned the sum of thirty million roubles with which to carry on the relief works and purchase of grain. I Constantinople, Aug 11. \ The Sultan is very indignant at the jMarquis of Salisbury for postponing the Conference respecting the British evacuation of Egypt. ' Washington, Aug. 11. . Several deaths from sunstroke are reported from various parts of the country. During the year. 54,000,0000 z of silver have been pnrchased by the State under the new silver law, but even this has failed to maintain prices. The United States Government has contracted for a hundred high-power guns, at a cost of 3,500,000 dol. Aug. 12. The Hon. James Russell Lowell, ptate 72, is dead. New York, Aug. 12. ; A hot spell has set in. The thermometer is 97 in the shade, and many people are prostrate from the effects of the heat. Mexico, Aug. 12. The great volcano of Colinia, sixty miles from the city, is in eruption. It is feared that many people have been buried under the aihes. Capetown, Aug. 12. General Booth received an immense ovation on his arrival here. At a meeting attended by five thousand persons, of all classes and creeds, resolutions were passed warmly endorsing General Booth's emigration scheme.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne; Aug. 12. The prospectus is issued of the Mutual store. It contemplates supplying New Zealand fish to this market. Sydney, Aug. 12. Two thousand pounds was recovered from Waterhouse, the absconder, who was arrested in London this week. August 13. .Two vessels, the Brandon and the .Venus, are overdue from Capetown. Taken in connection with the derelict sighted by the Emma L. Shaw, it is feared that one of the vessels has certainly been lost. ; Brisbane, August 12. j An important discovery of silver has beert made in the Cooktown district. Hobart, Aug. 12. The Government have decided to re-appoint Sir E. N. C. Braddon as Agent-G-eneral for a further term of three years.