TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2247, 29 August 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN,

London, Aug. 25. M. Blowitz, Paris correspondent of the Times, in a despatch declares that the alliance between Russia and France is limited to events in China; he states that in the event ofany trouble arising in China each agrees to place its coaling stations at the -service of the' other and, to ma^ l p'h ,r tlleir- respective Chinese frontiers.

It is reported that the Queen has decorated President Carnot of France an Honorary Knight of the Grand Cross. The Daily News states that there are £3,000,000 idle in the London money market, for which no outlet can be found.

The Government have allotted £10,000,000 under the provisions of the Irish Land Purchase Bill. The applications exceeded the amount available. The Queen has gone to Balmoral. The French Admiral entertained the British officers at a banquet tonight. The Prince and Princess of Wales are taking an active interest in the Russian Jews, and have furnished Mr Arnold White, Baron Hirsch’s agent, with letters to the Russian Court. A portion of the watches stolen from the South-Eastern Railway terminus has been recovered. In consequence of the stench arising from the corpses in the vaults of St. Mary’s, Woolnoth, in the city, the church has been closed. An explosion has takan place in a colliery at Kaerphilly, Glamorganshire, Only two miners were killed outright, but 250 are entombed. The festivities at Portsmouth concluded with a lunch given by Admiral Gervais.

Aug. 26. Severe storms, with heavy rain, are doing immense damage to the crops in England.

The storms have extended to Ireland.

During the stormy weather a pinnace which had been off to one of the warships was swamped and its four occupants were drowned. The general opinion of the delegates attending the meeting of the British Association is adverse to the State regulating the hours of labor. Alexandre Jacques, who has undertaken a fifty days’ fast., has completed half of the time, and appears qnite strong and vigorous. The miners entombed by the explosion in a mine at Caerphilly have been rescued.

The Anchor Line steamer Utopia, which sank off Gibraltar with great loss of life in March last, after collission with H.M.S. Anson, and was afterwards raised, has sailed from Gibraltar for Glasgow, where she will undergo repairs. Otto Jumbo, West African chief, is dead.

Mr Penn, the Tory candidate, was elected to the Lewisham seat by a majority of 1663 over Mr Warraington, the Liberal candidate. Orangisin is now suppressed in the Army, both at Home and in India. The British fleet have accepted an invitation to visit Cherbourg in October.

The engineers at Chatham dockyard intend to strike unless their wages are raised to the. society’s minimum of 5s 8d per day. Sir John Gorst will. probably succeed ' Mr Eaikes as - PostmasterGeneral. Paris, Aug. 26, A notary at Angierg has decamped, leaving behind him liabilities to the amount of £BO,OOO. Information has been received that a severe hurricane has been experienced at Senegal, a French colony in West Africa, by which four vessels were wrecked and eighteen of the crews drowned. Berlin, Aug. 26. The revenue derived by Treves from the influx of pilgrims is 2,000,000 marks.

Brussels, Aug. 26. The Queen of Romania has suffered a paralytic stroke. Later information denies the truth of the telegrams concerning the success of Emin Pasha’s expedition. St. Petersburg, Aug 25. An official circular nullifies the Jewish purchases of land in Western Russia since 1882, The distress among the peasantry throughout Russia is very severe, and they are reduced to eating grass and leaves. The unfortunate people are becoming desperate and several grainladen trains have been stopped. The peasantry along the Volga have received permission to gather wild fruit and herbs in the Imperial forests. Riotous attempts have occurred on | the borders to prevent wheat being ex- [ ported.

August 26. Several deaths from starvation are reported in the Volga district, and crowds of beggars are wandering from village to village in search of food. Copenhagen, Aug. 25. Wheat is being used instead of rye in the Danish army. Constantinople, Aug 25, Sinister rumours are afloat respecting the death of Ali Said, late Turkish Minister of War. It is stated to have been tjhe res ; sl| ,of a duel. August-26tt It is reported that the Czar has proposed to Turkey that she should cede the Novi Bazaar territory, lying between Servia and Montenegro, to Russia in lieu of arrears of war indemnity. Sofia, Aug 25. Thirty “cases of arms and a manifesto directed against the Bulgarian Government, have been seized at the seaport of Bourgas. New York. Aug. 25. Jim Hall, the Australian pugilist, quarrelled with his manager, Davis, 8 in a Michigan barroom, and the latter stabbed him in the throat. Ottawa, Aug. 25. An enquiry is to be held into the alleged corruption of Canadian Customs officials.

A committee is enquiring into the charges of rendering fraudulent accounts against Mr Schultze, Lieut.Governor of Manitoba. August 27. The Canadian census shows the population of the Dominion to be 4,820,000, an increase of per cent, on the whole.

Counsel engaged before the Corrupt Practices Committee on behalf of officers of the Public -Works Departmen admit that many of the charges against the Hon. Thos. McGreevy have been proved, but they deny that the officers were aware of the corruption. Capetown, Aug. 26.

General Booth has been offered large tracts of land in South Africa for the purpose of carrying out his colonising scheme.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE,

Sydney, Aug, 26. C. S. Wilkinson, the Government geologist, is dead. Newcastle, Aug. 27. Mr W. Weston, a New Zealand player, receiving 500 points start in a 1000-up game of billiards, beat Roberts by 40 points. Melbourne, Aug. 26. Mr Fergusson, of Dunedin, has been awarded second prize for Ayrshire cattle at the Victorian Agricultural Show. August 27. A horrible tragedy is reported from Stratford, a small town in Gippsland. A man named John Ross murdered his uncle, a farmer named John Freitag, hacking his neck about with a butcher’s knife in a frightful manner. Ross also made a savage attack on Mrs Freitag, and stabbed her so seriously that her recovery is doubtful. He intended also to attack the children, but was prevented and taken into custody. Ross, who is believed to be insane, buried the body of his uncle in the garden attached to the latter’s house. A fine broke out on board the P. and 0. Company’s steamer Parramatta. It was extinguished with little damage, but not before one Lascar had perished of suffocation. Adelaide* Aug, 26, The Legislative Council has inserted an amendment in the Education Bill in favor of a capitation grant of £1 per annum, but it is hardly likely that the House of Assembly will agree to it, Brisbane, August 27. Reports of rich gold finds at Murchison are confirmed. One man in four days dollied in a small mortar 160ozs. of gold.