TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2243, 20 August 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, Aug. 15,

Lady Macdonald, widow of the late Premier of Canada, is gazetted a Baroness in her dwn right, but the succession to the title!bf Baron is confined to the male heirs of her late husband.

A new daily and anti-Parnell paper, called the Irish News, has been issued at Belfast. News from Rome states that the representatives there of the Australian Roman CatholiMare to elect a General of the DomiiiicarTwd<jffi which it is proposed to establish in the colonies. The men employed by thirty more firms of carpenters have struck. Severe storms, accompanied by heavy floods, have been experienced in Lancashire, and in some places the water rose to such a height that mill fires were put out, and operations had to be suspended. The damage by water I at Larwen is estimated at £14,000,

The Cunard Company has entered into a contract for the construction of a steamer with the capacity of 12,000 tons, and capable of steaming twentytwo knots per hour. There is no improvement in the condition of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon.

'The Standard hints that it was Treasury bills, instead of stock, which the New South Wales Government were about to issue on the market, and considers that this is going from bad to worse. The Financial Times states that the reply from Sydney to the request of the brokers has not arrived, and that it is possible the hubbub spoiled the game. The paper goes on to say that it is unwise to discredit the stock of the colony when seeking to render available the investment of trust moneys in colonial stocks. August 17.

Mr Maxim, the inventor of the wellknown rapid firing gun, is reported to have invented a flying machine which will carry two tons at the rate of ninety miles an hour. >

The Mark Lane grain market is hardening. Prices are 2s 6d above last Monday’s, A report from Berlin states that prices there are twelve marks above Saturday’s, and American reports also state that prices are hardening there. The Times says that the outlook for farmers is very hopeful, and that the prospect is better than for many years. It considers that the improved position is mainly due to the Russian prohibition of the export of grain. By a railway accident at Pontypridd, in Wales, fifteen persons were injured, and three of the cases were expected to prove fatal. Mr John Burns, speaking at Clapham, said that the coming depression in trade would shake old-established unions, and bring about the abolition of those that had been recently formed. He advised workmen to look to Parliament for redress of their grievances. Aug. 18.

Mr Morley gives a flat contradiction to Mr Parnell’s statement, made at Drogheda, that he, well knowing the verdict in the divorce case,opposed his resigning the leadership. Paris, Aug. 16,

Count Munster, the German Ambassador to France, repudiates responsibility for the revelations made by Blowitz, the Times correspondent, regarding the downfall of Bismarck in the famous telegram which represented the fallen Minister as crawling to Empress Victoria to intercede for him, says the despatch to the Times was the result of a conversation in March last between the Minister and Blowitz, which the former declares was published without his consent. Sir Morell Mackenzie, in the course of an interview with a representative from the Gaulois newspaper, stated that the disease of the ear from which the Emperor of Germany is suffering is serious, but it is possible that his Majesty would live to an old age. He predicts that the reported accident to the Emperor is merely a stiff knee. August 17.

The Congregation of Rites has decided that the Holy Coat at Argentieul (not the Argentine), a small town near Paris, is that of Jesus when a child,and that the coats of Treves and Argentieul belong to different periods. Nearly two million pilgrims are arranging to visit Treves. Thirty-four thousand pass through the cathedral where the holy relic is exhibited every day. At a monster Franco-Russian meeting in this city a resolution was carried protesting against the visit of the French fleet to England, on the ground of the Marquis of Salisbury’s leaning towards the Triple Alliance. Berne, August 17.

Twelve persons were killed and injured by a railway collision in the city 'where the visitors' (? choristers’) festival is being held. The train was shunting at Zollikofer in order to allow the Paris express to pass when the latter came up and dashed into it.

Forty-eight persons were injured by the railway accident at Zollikofen. Brussels, Aug. 17.

The Socialist Congress at Brussels has refused admission to Anarchists on the ground that Socialisis desire toreform not destroy their constitution. The Socialist Congress, which is sitting in this city represents 300,000 Socialists on the Continent and in Great Britain. 362 delegates are present. London, Sheffield, and other large Trades Councils are represented. Berlin, Aug. 15. The German millers are petitioning for the immediate abolition of the grain duties. - —• ' St. Petersburg, Aug 15. One hundred and eighty-five houses have been burned in the town of Podolsk, ten miles south of Moscow. Five lives were lost.

The official estimate of the deficiency of rye in Russia is 280,000,0001bs (about 4,500,000 tons). Vienna, Aug. 13.

Six hundred gendarmes and foresters with bloodhounds are searching the woods for the victims of the man and woman Schneider, who are in custody on a charge of murdering servant girls. In five days they succeeded in recovering the murdered bodies of three of the missing girls, and in consequence of the discoveries sensation is growing. New York. Aug. 16.

Mr Backer, a New York broker and dry goods merchant, who . recently failed with liabilities amounting to four million dollars, has been arrested on a charge of larceny. August 17.

Details have been received from Chili of the capture of Pisagua by the insurgents. Of a force of 300 defending the town only 25 were left alive. The residents were decimated by shell fire. The insurgents carried the Governor off to sea and drowned him in revenge for his cruelties. Washington, Aug. 16.

The Secretary of the Farmers’ Alliance states that a large percentage of members are holding back the wheat crop in pursuance of the policy advised by the leaders of the party. Hanlan and O’Connor have made a match to row at New Westminster on 23rd September. Official tests of the Sims-Edison torpedo at New York was completely successful. A missile was discharged', driven, and guided by electricity, and was kept under perfect control from the keyboard on shore. A speed of twenty miles an hour was attained. The English Admiralty has invited the inventors to give an exhibition. Owing to a parachute failing to open, a woman who was making a descent at Cincinnati fell five hundred feet and was dashed to little bits. A similar accident occurred at New York where a parachutist fell into the water and was drowned. Valparaiso, Aug. 17, Information has been received that the cruiser Esmeralda has destroyed the guano factories on the Chores Islands.

Ottawa, August 16. The season’s lobster catch in Nova Scotia is immense, M. Pacaud, financial manager for the Hon. H. Merceir, the Premier of Quebec, and who is alleged to have received the sum of 700,000d01s in connection with the Bai Chaleur railway scandal, has left Canada. Calcutta, Aug 15. The Viceroy of India has decided not to annex Manipur. Foochow, Aug.jLS. Serious floods have been experienced here, and 1000 acres of land sown with rice are submerged. Numerous houses have been washed away and the loss of life is serious. Eighty bodies have already been recovered. The loss in stock has also been great.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE,

Sydney, Aug, 17. Mr Stanley, Secretary of the Bourke branch of the Shearers’ Union has been suspended for withholding information, which it is now considered would, if it had been made public, have prevented the late shearing troubles. Thursday Island, Aug, 17. , The steamer Deddington, which ran ashore on Sherrard Island, has been floated off. Melbourne, Aug. 17, Another case of smallpox has broken out on the ship Lock Tay. The British Bank’s head office has suspended payment, the failure was brought about by the depreciation of real estate. £BO,OOO is due to British depositors. The position of the Bank on the 31st March last was as follows ; _Assets, £1,634,000; liabilities, £407,000. The Company has some capital which has not been called up. The unpaid calls amount to £362,000, Hobart, 1“.

Cooley, the murderer of Mrs Ogilvie, was hanged to-rday. He made a full confession of his guilt.