TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2279, 12 November 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. ' London, Nov. 7. Further charges of obtaining the sum of £IO,OOO by means of false pretences have been preferred against the Eev. Dr Clutterbuck. Mr "Wills, an Englishman, who recently broke the bank of Monte Carlo, ba« again won heavily. He began : ! with six louis and won £20,000. | Nov. 9. The Standard's Berlin corresponden t wires that the commercial depression in Germany is the greatest known for thirty years past, paling, and even more ruinous than tb#t of 1873. Mewrsr.Sankey.Jind Moody," after th«ir London visit, tour India, China, and Australia. Sir John Gorst succeeds Mr Jackson as Financial Secretary to the Treasury. , Times, in discussing the New Zealand Land Tax Bill, considers it to be disastrous, as it virtually destroys the mortgage system with regard to estates, and is leading to the recall from the colony of all realisable capital. It is reported that Mr Robert GifFen, Secretary of the Commercial Department and Controller of Returns of the Board of Trade, who is visiting the colonies to attend the meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Science, will make enquiries into the financial condition of the colonies, and submit his report to the Chancellor of 1 the Exchequer, before the latter legislates on the question of the investment of trust funds in colonial stocks. * The claim of Cresswell, of Sydney, to the Tichborne estates is exciting much interest in England. Unless the emblems "Faith, Hope, and Charity," above the initials R.D.T., are on his left forearm, it is considered that it; will be impossible to establish his identity. Mr Wills broke the bank at Monte j Carlo five times, winning < £60,000. He claims to be the inventor of an unfailing system of winning. Westgarth's circular says that an attempt to float aVictorian loan will be suicidal, and it is highly improbable that any amount will be subscribed on any terms. The Statist remarks that New South Wales and Victoria will not awake to the danger of borrowing until they meet with a point blank refusal from English capitalists to subscribe the money. The Economist represses the opinion that the majority of the Land Companies in Australia courted disaster by going beyond their immediate resources. In a letter to the Statist, the London and Westminster Bank officials say that it was distinctly understood that the last Victorian loan would be sufficient to restore, the equilibrium of the ledger, and that the advice not to borrow for two years would be followed. The British steamer Tubega has been wrecked and twenty lives lost. Paris, Nov. 8. Madame Melba was received with immense enthusiasm on her appearance as " Ophelia " in the opera of Hamlet. The audience was the largest of the season. Rome. Nov. 9. An agitation has been set on foot in Reme to subject the Pope to common law. The tomb of the morganatic wife of Victor Emmanuel has been surreptitiously entered, the coffin burnt/and the remains desecrated. St. Petersburg, Nov 7. The discovery of a plot to murder the Czar is given as a reason for his avoiding Berlin. The Bank of Russia is conferring with other banks on the financial situation which is regarded as critical. • Nov. 8. M. De Giers, Minister of Foreign Affairs, requested permission to visit the Emperor William. The Czar was annoyed at' the request and refused to grant it, in consequence of which M. De Giers is resigning his portfolio. Calcutta, Nov. 9, ' The officials in Burmah are resorting to rain-making experiments with a view to a threatened drought. During a cyclone the steamer Enterprise sank in Port Blair harbor, on the east side of Sandeman Island, in the Bay of 'Bengal. Seventy-seven persons were drowned. New York, Nov. 9. By an explosion in. a colliery in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, eighteen miners were killed and many injured. The Herald states that Joe Thompson, the leviathan bookmaker, lost £30,000 over the Cambridgeshire Stakes, Rio de Jaxkiko, Nov. 9. The Brazilian Government have ordered the lease of the State railways for a term of 33 years. The President of Brazil is seriously ill. Buenos Ayres, Nov. 8. JL cyclone swept over the country, » large number of people being killed, *nd immense damage done to property.