TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2277, 7 November 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Nov. 4. The latest returns show that in the Municipal elections Liberals secured 79 seats, the Tories 48, and the Labor party 12. The Daily News points out that the Liberals make a clear gain of 59 seats, and is very jubilant at the result. The Central Chamber of Agriculture has adopted the report of, t the commeasure:

The late Earl of Glancarty left his son Viscount Dunlo nothing of his personal estate.

The audience at a theatre in Coatbridge, near Glasgow, resenting the increase in prices, jeered and pelted Mr J. L. Toole, whose appeals to keep order were received with derision. The London actors and theatrical managers will present H.R.H. the Prince of Wales with a gold cigar case of the value of £IOOO on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday. At a meeting of the Colonial Institute in December, Sir E. C. N. Braddon, Agent-General for Tasmania, will read a paper in which he will defend Australia and its people from the attacks which have been made on them in the articles appearing in the leading English newspapers and magazines.

Mrs Parnell, who has been in illhealth since the death of her husband, is in a critical state, and her condition is causing her friends great anxiety. Major-General Babbage and a minority of the committee appointed to investigate the affairs of the Bank of South Australia, in their report find that the losses of the bank have arisen through bad management, and favour the abolition of colonial directors.

Mrs Jenkins, of Sydney, writes to the Earl of Zetland that she intends to bring Cresswell, the lunatic, to England, she being confident that he is Roger Tichbqunie. , Paris, Nov. 3.

Madame Melba has retained Sir Charles Russell, Q.C., to oppose the application of her husband for a divorce. Lady Lyttelton and Lady DeGrey, and other notables, have called on Madame Melba and expressed their belief in her jnuocence, RoifE, Nov, i. The death is announced of His Highness Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, fourth son of Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canine, and brother of the Emperor Napoleon I.; agedTS, Brussels, Nov, 3. A number of English bookmakers, who have been frequenting the racecourses, have been expelled from the country, Berlin, Nov. 3. The Hirschfield-Wolf bank ip the city has suspended payment. St. Petersburg, Nov 3.

Nihilist plots have beep discovered at Charkoff and Odessa, and many ari’ests have been made in consequence. Vienna,' Nov. 4. The Duke of Orleans, who is at present in this city, was to-day served with a writ as co-respondent in the Melba divorce case, Nov. 5. The subpoena to appear in the Melba divorce suit was served on the Duke of Orleans by a bailiff’in disguise, who gained an audience with the Duke by pretending that he wished to presept a petition to him. J'long Kong, Nov. 4. The native Christians in Hunan province have been threatened with expulsion, Yokohama, Nov. 3. The official report states that 4000 people were killed and 5000 injured by the earthquake at Mokusan. It is estimated that 50,000 houses were fier stroyed by the shock. Washington, Nov 3.

Theliabllities of Maverick’s National Bank amount to eight million dollars. The deficit is put at two millions. The elections in several of the States are proceeding, and appearances so far indicate that the democratic party will have a victory in New York and Massachussets. New York, Nov, 3.

The president and two of the directors of Maverick’s National Bank, which suspended payment yesterday, have been arrested on warrants charging them with embezzling half a million of money belonging to the bank. Nov. 4. Ala jor McKinley has been elected Governor of Ohio.

Seventeen miners have been killed by falling down the shaft of the Anaconda mine in Montano. The Democratic candidates in the States of Virginia and New Jersey are polling very heavily. Mr Brown was elected for Maryland by a majority of 10,000; Mr Flower for New York by a majority of 16,000 : and Major McKinley for Ohio by a majority of 10,000. The Republican candidate who stood for Philadelphia,

was returned by theastounding majority of 40,000. Nov. 5. President Harrison is delighted at the return of Major McKinley for the Ohio seat. The Democrats in New York State are said to have resorted to bribery in order to further the interests of their candidates. The farmers in Ohio did not vote for Major McKinley. The crisis in Brazil was brought about by the President disputing the power of veto held by Congress. Bloodshed is imminent, but only meagre, information is to hand from Rib owing to the wires having been seized. Valparaiso, Nov, 5. A conspiracy has been discovered to murder General Canto, an old Peruvian veteran, who was one of the insurgent leaders during the civil war. ’AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Nov. 4. Speaking at Arundale, Mr H. Copeland, Secretary for Lands in the new Ministry, declared that notwithstanding the recent four and a-half million loan not one shilling would remain at the end of November to carry on public works, for which three millions worth of contracts were already let. He also said that there would be a deficit of £200,000 at the end of the year. The Anglo-Australian Investment Company has suspended payment. The capital amounts to £500,000 of which £115,000 is paid up; the reserve is £67,000. The principal liabilities are—Depositors £208,000, debentures £312,000. Chief assets— Land purchase balances £506,000, city properties £575,000. Influenza is raging in the country districts, and at Goulburn seven deaths j took place within the last 24 hours. The warm weather has had the effect of tempering the disease in the city, although it is still very bad. Nov. 5. Mr Brenner, speaking at Wagga, said that the Government would force i the policy of protection, and if un- | successful would appeal to the country. 1 The Government intended to ask Par- [ Lament to pass the One-Man-One-Vote principle, and the fiscal question would then be proceeded with. All the members of the Government with the exception of Mr Barton have been reflected without opposition. He is opposed by Mr Grantham, a freetrade and labor candidate. Melbourne, Nov. 5, A woman, the reputed wife of a commercial traveller named Best, was shot, and the latter alleges that he did it accidentally. At the inquest, however, the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against him.