TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2254, 15 September 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

[ ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. s London, Sept. 10. England and Portugal have com- ! pleted delimitation of the spheres in \ Manicaland. A New South Wales four and a-half ' million loan, with a minimum of 95, is announced. Tenders will be opened on the 17th inst. Sept. 12. The Wesleyan and Methodist Unions have fixed the "Week of Prayer to commence o?jf November 15th. The pf the Welsh National Council has opened the disestablishment campaign at Pontypridd. A Jews' Colonisation Association has been formed to give effect to Baron Hirsch's scheme. The capital is £2,000,000. The Baron takes all shares except ten. The shares are £IOO "each. Messrs "Rothschild, Goldsmith, Cassel, Renieh, Mocatta, Goldschmidt, Benjamin, and Cohen hold the balance of the shares. Controversy is going on in the Daily Chronicle, respecting the charge of drunkenness against ; Australians made by ; Mr ' David Christie • Murray in his article in the Contemporary Review. Mr Francis Adams, of Melbourne, in reply to Mr Murray asserts that the native-born colonists are markedly abstemious, but that the Anglo-Australians are terribly intemperate. The express train from Ballock ran into a party of navvies near Kirkhill, Scotland, killing five. The Bank of Australasia pays a dividend of 14 per cent, and carries forward £14,500. Mr Partridge the Marylebone magistrate, is dead. A steam launch was-sunk in the river Foyle, in Ireland, owing to a collision. Fifteen of the people on board were drowned. The Marquis of Salisbury has instructed Mr Horace Plunkett to report as to whether Canada is a suitable field for the settlement of the Irish from the congested districts in Ireland. The prospects of the New South Wales loan are discouraging. It is at a nominal premium of 5-16ths per cent. It is reported that a large Sydney subscription has been promised. A doubtful report is current that Jewish financiers are arranging to subscribe to the loan if the colony will facilitate the immigration of Russian Jews. Paris, Sept. 10. A staircase collapsed in a circus at Marseilles while the audience were going out, and twenty-five people were injured. M. Grevy died of congestion of the lungs after four days'illness. Alexander and Co., corn merchants, have failed. The gross liabilities are put down at a million and three quarters, but the deficiency is only estimated at forty-four thousand. Sept. 12. A committee of the Chamber of Deputies consider with a view to protect the bondholders interested in the Panama canal that if the Government internationalised the canal and the French subscribe the bulk of the money the work would be completed. The late M. Grevy leaves a fortune of ten million francs. Rome, Sept. 12. The Italian Messageries steamer Aoramina collided with the Greek steamer Thessalia off Cape Suniurn in Greece. The former vessel sank and forty of her passengers were drowned. Berlin, Sept. 10. It is reported that Prince Bismarck becomes reconciled t 6 the Emperor on • the condition that the Emperor and his Ministers consult the Prince on all important questions, he on his part undertaking not to renew the attacks on the Government. An official of the Berlin Mortgage Bank has absconded with 378,000 j marks. : St. Petersburg, Sept. 10. « The Government intend to banish < to Siberia any persons found guilty of ] proselytising the orthodox Russians. The decree is specially directed against the students of the Puritan sect in South Russia, said to be descendants 1 of Russian soldiers converted from the / < Greek Church by the German mis- 1, 1 sionaries. J Sept. 12. ' A band of Jews has been tried in Russia on a charge of artificially dis- i abling thousands of conscripts. ] Cairo, Sept. 10. The report that the Mahadi is march- : ing northward is denied. i Calcutta, Sept. 11. : i It is reported that an affray has taken place on the frontier between ! Russians and Afghans. Hong Kong, Sept. 10. Foreigners at Tchanga are taking ' refuge in Hankow. ( Sept. 11. H. M. S. Archer quelled an attempted < : riot at Hankow. Owing to the shallow I water in the river the gunboats were \

unable to restore order at Tchang, where rioting is taking place. New Y.oek, Sept. 10. Mr Fitzgerald, the President of the Irish League in America, is dying. Sept, 12.

Mr J. G. Blaine, Secretary of State, declines to guarantee O'Donovan Rossa freedom from arrest in the event of his visiting Ireland. Rossa replies that American protection of Irish citizens is all humbug. Ottawa, Sept. 10. The Roman Catholics of Canada desire to have a Papal Nuncio appointed for the colony. The .Government of the Dominion has refused theiadmission of American cattle into Canada for the purposes of slaughter. The" Chinese Commissioner reports that the Chinese are anxious to eradicate- leprosy, and have killed several lepers in Columbia. Sept. 12. The Canadian steam lines are re-1 fusing to carry Jewish emigrants. The Bill introduced in Parliament by the Premier providing for the I suppression of corruption has passed the Senate. Its provisions are of a very drastic character. The Hon • H. Mercier, Premier of Quebec, and the Hon. G. Langelier, Provincial Secretary, together with several other prominent officials, have been found guilty of bribery in connection with contracts for the Baie ( Cheleur railway. This decision has caused considerable sensation. Mr Cochrane was exonerated from any participation in the scandal. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company will endeavour to stimulate emigration to Canada by sending itinerary vans, exhibiting the products of the country, throughout Great Britain. ; _ » - AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, Sept. 12. A blasting explosion occurred at Brunswick, a suburb, in which a man named Andrews was blbwn to pieces and five others seriously injured. Sydney, Sept. 11. The Legislative Council have passed a motion requesting the Government to introduce a Bill dealing with gambling and th© use made of the Post Office to carry on sweeps.