TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2288, 3 December 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Nov. 29. In an article in the Anti-Jacobin, the Hon. J. W. Fqrtescue says that it is hard to think that Sir Henry Parkes' i sudden retirement was not connected with the exposure of the financial administration of the, Government Victoria, he declared, was attempting to maintain her credit by the simple processs of cabling Home Lord 'Hope-, toun's puffs of the colony. In the course of a speech Mr Gladstone said that the colonies enjoy more than Ireland asks for. He eulogised the profit-sharing system, and expressed pleasure that the prospect of the next political fight had aroused the Tories. Nov. 30. Mr Richard Power, MJ\ for Waterford, is dead. The police dispersed a meeting of Socialists at Chelsea and arrested several of those who were present. In his address at Glasgow Mr Balfour said that a firm, liberal, and kindly Government would be a slow but certain cure for Ireland. i Dec. 1. Influenza of an alarming type is raging in Belfast, and the disease is also very prevalent in Glasgow. Some boys exploded a toy bomb on the beach at Southampton, one of the number being killed and the rest badly injured. It is reported that when Prince George of Wales is convalescent, Prince Albert Victor's engagement to Princess Victoria of Teck will be announced. I Mr Davitt and the McCarthyites are willing to have a strong labour party in the next Parliament. The Standard's New York correspondent states that Field, of the firm of Field and Lindley, bankers, who suspended payment, owing, >; it is alleged, to the bearing of the corn market in Chicago, is a clever criminal, and that his father's fortune is inadequate to redeem his freedom and the family honour. Referring to the land question in his speech at Glasgow, Mr Balfour expressed the opinion that the cooperative farming system would prove the solution of the rural difficulty. Paris, Nov. 29. It is rumoured that Milan, the exKing of Servian has been appointed Commander of the Persian cavalry. i The eight hundred miners who seized tliemine at Revidegier, in the department of the Loire, threaten to kill those who attempt to expel them. | Nov. 80. I M. Ribot, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has warned the Papal Nuncio that the French Cabinet will cease the opposition to the movement for the separation of Church and State, unless tie Vatican advises the French Bishops to show more moderation. I The miners strike has ended, the employers having granted the men 20 per cent, increase in their wages. I Vienna, Nov. 30.

iThe Archduke Henry of Austria aild his wife, the Princess Leopoldine of Waldeck, died together in a Vienna hotel, of inflammation of the lungs. ' St. Petersburg, Dec. 1. lit is reported that the Czar his made compulsory purchases of large quanties of grain, all of which ■will be distributed in the faminestlricken districts. ! Hong Kong. Nov. 30. j Foreigners in Pekin are furious at tbie cruelties which are being practised. j Advices received in Shanghai state that the Manchurian rebels are advancing from Tientisn, and that in the event of the defeat of the Government troops Pekin will be in a critical condition.

jThe rebels before capturing Chayoiig defeated a force of 4000 regulars, leaving 700 of them dead on the field. iDetailsof the massacre at the Taku missibns are to hand. They show that the Chinese, roasted the children alive after having mutilated them, and outraged, and then killed the nuns by dashing their brains out. The hearts and.tongues.were torn from the priests and their bodies afterwards burnt. The rioters have been banqueted by prominent mandarins. r i ■ ■ Nov. 80.

The origin of the Chinese revolts is obscure. The first outbreak took place in a town called Ginchow, in the north-east. The garrisons in Shanghai and Kivan are marching against the rebels. Later details of the massacre ati Taku show that three hundrM persons were butchered, not a single individual connected with the missions escaping. The Imperial Government are alarmed at the magnitude of the rising, and a strong army well officered has been despatched to surround the the rebels. The Protestant missionaries have abandoned the mission station at Thien Hoa. Local mandarins are reported to have entered into negotiations with

the rebels to spare the people, on condition that they had free license tjo sack and pillage Christians and Europeans. All native Christians [were massacred at Taku. The Government declared it was impossible tjo protect the mission at Tunhoi.

j Dec. 1. I An official telegram received here spates that the rebels are 300 miles from ]?ekin, and that there are 5000 Christians in Eastern Mongolia who rlequire protection. The press are unanimous that decisive and concerted action should be taken to afford protection to missions and foreigners. j Ottawa, Dec. 1. .-•] Twelve members of the Dominion parliament have been unseated,charges df bribery having been proved against them.

"Washington, Nov. 26. I The Hawaiian Government have signed the treaty submitted by the IjJnited States Government providing for freetrade between the two countries.

! Dec. 1. '. The Apache Indians in Arizona are on the warpath, killing settlers and burning homesteads. A regiment of soldiers has been despatched to the scene of the rising. New York, Nov. 30.

A lunatic fired three times at the Rev. John Hill, an eminent Presbyterian minister, when leaving church on Sunday, but the rev. gentleman escaped unhurt. San Francisco, Dec. 1.

Affairs in Hawaii are in a very disturbed state, and there is a prospect of a revolution breaking out an early date. | Rio De Janeiro, Dec. 1. 1 The Brazilian Government have dismissed the Papal Nuncio on the ground that the interference of clergy State affairs cannot be tolerated. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, Nov. 30. The difficulty between the wool bjuyers and sellers has been amicably aujusted. ! It is announced that the City of Melbourne Building Society will suspend business to-day. The cause is the withdrawal of deposits at a faster rate than income comes in. The society now owes its bankers £70,000. Dec. 1. The auditors' report shows the defalcations of Mr Matthias Larkin, the well known secretary of the South Melbourne Permanent Building and Investment Society, to be £13,000. The balance-sheet shows the society made an additional loss of £B,BOO on the year's working. ! Sydney, Dec. 1.

I The Financial Statement was delievered in the Legislative Assembly to-night. It shows that the expenditure for the past year was 410,547,000, "and the receipts ££,957,000. The estimated revenue isj £10,960,000, including £836,000 fr,om the new system of taxation. The expenditure is put down at £10,602,000, and it is estimated that there will be a surplus for the year of £358,000 leaving a deficit at the end of 1892 of £231,000. The new taxation will consist of 10 per cent, and 15 per cent. Customs duties. j The new duties include butter and bacon, 2d per lb; fish, Id; coffee, 6d; tea, until March, 1872, 3d, after that, free ; timber, up to 3s per 100 feet, according to its nature ; sugar, 6s 8d per cwt; oatmeal, £2 per ton ; barley, oats, peas, and wheat, lOd per 1001 b; flour, bran, and pollard, Is per 1001 b; hay, chaff, straw, and potatoes, ids per ton; onions, £1 per ton.. Fresh fish, New Zealand flax, kauri giim, fresh frozen meat, and oysters, will be admitted free of duty.