TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2279, 14 November 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Nov. 10. The jubilee of the Prince of Wales \Vas celebrated with salutes, the pealing of bells, and a great display of bunting. The bells' at Westminster Abbey were rung, , .and the Lord Mayor’s pageant was t of an unusually gorgeous description, but the festivities Were greatly interfered'with by a downpour of rain. The is a calmer feeling in financial circles the. continent, though yesterday’s-run on thji.JhlLnks in Berlin caused intense excitement, and the assistance of the police had to be called in and the doors temporarily qlosed. Thte feeling in London is better, but a slight panic has taken place in Madrid, Nov. 11. ; The Times says the position of the Bank of Spain is rapidly going from bad to worse. 1 I It is reported that Sir W. Robinson will be offered the Agent Generalship of Victoria in place of Sir G. Berry. ’ The nonconformists of Wales demand the disendowment of the Episcopal Church. Sir John Gorst, in the course of a speech, urged workmen to insure against sickness and accident, and advised them not to look for great reforms and splendid schemes. They could not expect State aid to any great amount. The Standard’s Russian correspondent says that the famine will cost £125.000,000. Typhoid is prevalent. News is just received that the ship Benvenue, 2033 tons, from London to Sydney, has gone ashore at Sandgate, near Folkestone. The lifeboat, while proceeding to the wreck of the ship Benvenue, capsized and several of the occupants were drowned. Several of those on board the ill-fated ship, including the captain and his wife, have been drowned. The Dungeness lifeboat also capsized, and five of its crew were drowned. Numbers of fishing smacks hailing from Lowestoft, in Suffolk, were wrecked during the gale, and twelve lives were lost. Twenty-one of the crew of the ship Benvenue, who had taken to the rigging, were rescued after being sixteen hours in their perilous position. ' Parts, Noy. 10. La Forge, the Socialist, who was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for the part he took in the Fournies riot, has been released, having been elected to represent Zille in the Chamber of Deputies. After his election had been announced the Chamber passed a resolution demanding his release. Rome, Nov, 11. During a bull fight at Estellamare, in Southern Italy, the seats collapsed and five hundred people were thrown to the ground. A hundred received injuries and twenty cases are expected to end fatally. • Berlin, Nov. 10. It is expected that some more Berlin banks will fail, as well as other houses doing financial business. It is stated that within five minutes of the suspension of Hirchfield Wolffs bank, a clerk belonging to a Berlin firm arrived with a deposit of £25,000 which would have averted the disaster. ; Seventy arrests have already been made under the Emperor’s order for the suppression of immorality, 1 Sofia, Nov, 11. I The brother of a man suspected of being accessory to the murder of M. Betcheff, Minister of Finance, is alleged to have been tortured to death at Sofia, in order to compel him to disclose the hiding place of his brother. Vienna, Nov. 11, A nugget of gold weighing 1061bs has been found in a mine in Transylvania. St. Petersburg, Nov 10. I The authorities are closing the Protestant Churches, an exception i being made only in the case of the Lutheraii Ghprch. Petitions from all parts of Russia are being presented to the Minister of Finance, praying for the retention.. of «'« ■ have been plundered at Kazan, Koursh, and Varonest, and farm houses belonging to gentry sacked. Calcutta, Nov. 10. ! Sjxty persons were killed and two hundred injured on shore by a cyclone at the Andaman Islands, Nov. If, Further particulars of the cyclone at the Andaman Islands show that the Enterprise was unable to raise steam before she wasjiurled on the rocks. The convicts on shore worked heroically in their endeavours to save those on board. L Qttawa, Npv. l j. Professor Goldwin Smith asserts j that Canada | destined to become part of the yiutcjl States, apd unless s)ie

speedily consents to a peaceable union forcible annexation will follow. New York, Nov. 10. In the Monte Christo mine, in Washington Territory, a lead of gold 4ft deep and 400 ft long has been opened out. Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 11. The Province of Graopara has declared its independence, and it is expected Bahia will follow suit. A war- j ship has been sent to Rio Grande, ! which has cut loose from the Republic, j General Conseca threatens to expel j all who attempt to overthrow the dictatorship, but only part of the navy support him. General Fonseca is suppressing all, newspapers opposed to him. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, Nov. 11. Mr H. M. Stanley delivered his first lecture this evening and met with an enthusiastic reception. The members of the Cabinet in the Upper House who resigned their portfolios owing to a difference with their colleagues over the one-man-one-vote principle have agreed to the withdrawal of their resignation pend- j ing the reconsideration of the measure by the House. Sydney, Nov, 12. The hurricane demolished many buildings in. Yass, a town 170 miles southwest of Sydney. The upper end of the place is a mass of wreckage, building materials being scattered for miles around. The damage will amount to thousands of pounds, Iwo men were severely injured. Nov. 12. The South Melbourne Permanent Building Society has temporarily stopped paying out any money until a full investigation has been made into the alleged defalcations of Mr Larkin, one of its officers. If these do not exceed £15,000 the society is perfectly sound, but it is feared the amount will largely exceed that mentioned, Hobart, Nov. 12. The R.M.S. Arawa, from London via Teneriffe and Capetown, arrived early this morning and resumes her voyage to Wellington at 6 a.m. to morrow. She has 81 passengers for Australia and 180 for New Zealand.