TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2260, 29 September 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Sept. 24. Bishop Selwyn is ' improving in health, and will probably recover the use of his legs. Mr Parnell and his party are appealing to the Irish throughout the world for money to assist evicted tenants. The New Zealand Union Steamship Company’s new vessel Upolu was launched at Paisley to-day. Sir F. D. Bell declined a farewell .banquet which the Agents-General wished to offer him on the occasion of his retirement. Sept. 25. i Mr De Cobain, M.P., against whom serious charges have been pending so long, ha's intimated his intention to surrender himself at Folkestone. Sept. 26. Dr Adler, the Jewish Rabbi, has requested Mr Hall Caine, the well- ‘ known author, to proceed to Russia and write a work describing the sufferings of the Jews there. Sir Yernon Harcourt, speaking at Ashton, declared that if Mr Parnell remained stiffnecked and seditious he jeopardised half of the Liberals in assisting Ireland to secure Home Rule. The Economist asserts that contracts which had been entered into for the purchase of lands in ' New Zealand have been cancelled, owing to the most inequitable Land and Income Tax Assessment Bill adopted in the late session. Pams, Sept. 25. Serious floods have occurred in the Ardeche province, and a number of lives have been lost. The stationmaster at St, Maude, where the collision took place recently which resulted in a sad loss of life, has been sentenced to four months’ imimprisonment, and the engine driver to two years’ imprisonment. Madrid, Sept. 24. By a railway collision at Burgos, in Northern Spain, fourteen persons were killed and twenty-four wounded. Among the number are Seymour Lucas, A.R.A., the painter, several Spanish noblemen and Englishmen. The collision was caused by the express from San Sebastian, which was travelling at the rate of forty-one miles per hour, running into an ordinary train from Madrid going at thirty miles. The accident took place at midnight, and the scene was of a shocking description. The disaster was caused by the blunder of a telegraph clerk, who has been arrested. Sept. 26. Mr Seymour Lucas, 1 the English painter, who was in the railway accident at Burgos, was not killed as at first reported, but is badly injured. St. Petersburg, Sept. 24. Siberian convicts have revolted against their inhuman treatment and putrid food. Sept, 26. During last week 20,000 Russian Jews left Kieff and Odessa for America and Australia, and 7000 for the Argentine Republic. Calcutta, Sept. 24. The proprietor, editor, and manager of the Bungabasti, the leading vernacular weekly paper of Calcutta, who were prosecuted for publishing seditious articles, having apologised, have been pardoned by the Indian Government. New York, Sept. 25. Another portion of Oklahoma reserve, a part of the Indian territorj 7 situated between Texas, Kansas, and Arkansas, has been thrown open, sufficient land to provide for 5000 people, but the reserve has been rushed by five times that number. A panic occurred at a revival meeting at Jackson. The audience thought the Day of Judgment had come, and in a rush for the doors of the building twenty negroes were badly injured and I some killed. Two workmen’s trains collided at Zehienople, in Pennsylvania. Ten of the occupants were killed and many injured. Washington, Sept. 24. A disastrous fire occurred at Minneapolis. Twelve stores were burned and several people perished in the flames. Many others were injured in escaping. The damage is 100,000 dollars. Ottawa, Sept. 24. The Canadian Government, through England, has requested the release of the sealers captured in the Behring Sea. It is alleged that the Russian commander violated the laws of neutrality. ,4 Sept. 26. The House of Commons of the Dominion Parliament has by a majority of 15* adopted the report of the Committee of Inquiry into the charges of corruption levelled against Mr Thomas McGreevy, and Sir H. Langevin, in ,: which it was recommended that the • former be expelled from Parliament,

but in the latter’s case they were unable to agree as to his guilt. The newspapers supporting the Hon. H. Mercier, Premier of Quebec, threaten that Quebec will be driven to independence or annexation to the United States if the Government of the Dominion attempt to dictate or threaten the expulsion of the Government. In a sculling race at New Westminister between O’Connor and Hanlan the latter was defeated. AUSTRALIAN GABLE. Sydney, Sept. 25. News from the New Hebrides states that head hunting is daily carried on at Tanna Island, one of the group, and the most revolting atrocities are perpetrated on each other by the natives at war. So far the whites have not been interferred with though their position is unenviable, as bullets are constantly flying about. Sept. 26. General Booth has arrived here from Melbourne and received an enthusiastic welcome. He was met at the railway station by fully 10,000 people. Hobakt, Sept. 25. Mr Marsden, fourth officer of the Union Company’s steamer Wairarapa fell overboard when the vessel was off Cape Raoul, on the voyage from Melbourne, and was drowned.