TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2285, 26 November 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH ANDf|OREIGN. LoNDok, Nov. 22. The Daily News thinks that Australian securities will re-assert their real merits despite of the rivalry of American railway stocks, provided the market is not flooded with them. It urges temporary abstention from borrowing, and remarks that. .the largest and wildest members of;fhe syndicates have gone in for New> Zealand se-, curities. A memorial has been published in favor of abolishing Greek at the Cambridge University, but it is not likely the authorities will take any action on it, as the Vice-Chancellor points out the same proposal was before the Council lately and was negatived. The National Insurance Company of New Zealand has declared a dividend of 10 per cent. ! Mr Chamberlain denies Mr Glad : stone’s accusation that he is a renegade. ' The Daily News challenges the Unionists to openly merge with the Tories. ; Lord Herschell considers it impossible for the House of Lords to go on without some reform being introduced. Bishop Selwyn is about on crutches, and is making slow recovery. The Rev. Dr Clutterbuck has been sentenced at Bath to four years’ penal servitude for obtaining £16,000 by false pretences. The marriage of Sir S. Wilson’s son with lady Churchill, daughter of thfe former Duke of Marlborough, took place yesterday. The ceremony, which was of a brilliant character, was attended by the Prince of Wales, thh Duke of Cambridge, the Princess of Teck, and many other society notables. The Prince of Wales presented the bride with a diamond brooch. Nov. 23. Prince George is progressing favorably. His mother has returned from Livadia, and is now at his bedside, and the Queen is visiting him. The Hon. Mr Stuart (Unionist) and Mr Glyn have been nominated for the Dorset seat. The Chronicle says that London is paying every year £1,000,000 more than it ought for the worst water ‘supply in Europe. It expresses a hope that Lord Carrington will lead the party of progress in the London County Council. Paris, Nov. 21. The debate in the Senate on the tariff was opened by M. Lacour, who urged that it would have the effect of isolating France. M. Dauphin argued that the gates should not be left open to foreign countries which were closed against France. Berlin, Nov. 23. A particularly severe type of influenza is raging at Hamburg, where forty deaths have occurred daily from the disease. The epidemic is spreading throughout Germany and France, and all schools are being closed. Baron Dilsach, President of the Municipal Council at Apia, one of the Samoa officials denounced by Mr Stevenson in a letter to the Times, has resigned. The German Government will not accept it, and they are now parleying with the other Powers interested and urge his retention. Vienna, Nov. 21. The Tories in the Reichstag are in favor of the Government exercising supervision over the business of Stock Exchanges. St. Petersburg, Nov 21.; A brigand entered a train near Moscow and killed the postman arid stole £SOOO. The persecution of the Jews has ceased, and immigration into Russia is resuming its normal proportion. Ottawa, Nov. 21.. A commission has been gazetted to whom will be entrusted the work of settling Irish and Scotch Crofters in Canada. Arnold, the Chief Engineer of Public Works in Canada, has been arrestedNov. 23. The remission of the Canadian sugar duties has resulted in a loss to the revenue of 2,000,000 dollars in four months. Washington, Nov. 21, , Edison has invented an electric locomotive which he claims will develope one horse-power with one or two pounds of inferior coal, and can be safely worked up to a speed of one hundred miles per hour. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, Nov. 23. At the annual meeting of the Kauri Timber Company, the Chairman sweepingly condemned the extravagance and laxity of adminstration and want of cohesion of the New Zealand management, which would be ruinous if allowed to continue. I Consequently he had directed the

closing of the mills, although such a step was not absolutely necessary. Regarding the financial position of the Company, through there had been a loss of £14,000 on the year’s transactions, they had, after deducting the debts, assets amounting to £916,000, equal to £1 13s 3d for every pound invested, and about £1 3s lOd for every pound of paid-up capital. The report was adopted. Sydney, Nov. 21. The remains of the late Mr T. W. Lewis were buried yesterday, but today were exhumed and forwarded to Wellington. The court-martial in connection with the accident to H.M.S. Boomerang found that Mr Gowder, the chief engine-room artificer, was to blame, and he was reduced to the rank of engine-room artificer, and his long service medals were forfeited.