TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2294, 17 December 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

FOREIGN. London, Dec. 12. The R.M.S. Ruapehu left Plymouth to-day for Auckland via Cape and Hobart.

Mr Gladstone has written a letter in which he declines to adopt the legal eight hours and expresses doubts whether the principle will be patiently borne. ,

Election riots have taken place at Wexford, during which ]Vtr M. Davitt was severely wounded in thehead. He declares his intention of contesting the seat in opposition to Mr John Redmond,

A warrant has been issued by Holbert against Miss Evelyn, plaintiff in the recent action for breach of promise, on the ground of perjury. Further storms are raging all over England and floods are universal. In many places buildings were unroofed. The Enterkin, bound to Brisbane 1 with a cargo of iron, was wrecked off Ramsgate on Sunday night. An apprentice who was lashed to the rigging was the only one rescued, all the rest on board, 50 in number, being drowned. Dec. 14. British West Indies, excepting Jamaica, are concluding a reciprocity treaty with the United States. The Duke of Devonshire is sinking. The Kaikoura arrived at Plymouth to-day from New Zealand, .all well. In the Divorce Court to-day, in the case in which Miss Florence St. John petitioned for a divorce from her husband, Justice Jeune summed up in favour of petitioner on the charge of adultery with Arthur Cohen, financial journalist, and found respondent guilty of adultery but acquitted him on the charge of cruelty. Miss St. John has applied for a judicial separation, and the case has been adjourned. It is believed that the Prince of Wales will allow the Duke of Clarence and Avondale £20,000 a year and a residence. The St. James Gazette states that the marriage will be celebrated in Westminster Abbey in February, unless Her Majesty the Queen insists on it taking place in St. George’s Chapel. The phonograph has been applied to fifty-six inmates of Johnson’s deaf asylum, and fifty-three of the patients heard the reproduced sounds. Probate has been granted of the wills of the late Messrs Hemming, needle-maker, and Avery, weighingmachine manufacturer. The values of the respective estates are £750.000 and £170,000. Dec. 15. The Daily Telegraph asserts that the Duke of Clarence’s honeymoon will be spent at Sandringham, and that the bride’s trousseau will be entirely of English manufacture. Mr Cotton, of Adelaide, writing to Greater Britain, advocates the “bursting up” of large landed estates in order to retain labourers on the soil and check the immigration of settlers to the cities.

The Chronicle states that Mr E. Stanhope, Secretary of State for War, intends to economise his department, and proposes to reduce the cavalry by two regiments. His military advisers are opposed to this action. The ship Enterkin struck Galloper sands. The lifeboat was stove in, and drowned most of the crew. Those left on board, consisting of four hands, were washed overboard, an apprentice alone regaining the ship and taking to the rigging. He was five hours in that perilous position before being rescued by a smack. Captain Sinclair, who was to have taken command of the ship, was seized with an attack of influenza prior to her departure, and was succeeded by Captain Stevenson. Paris, Dee. 14. The French Minister in Bulgaria has been withdrawn, as M. Stamboulotf, the Premier and Minister of the Interior, has refused to permit the French journalists who were expelled to return to that country. St. Petersburg, Dec. 15,

The Russian Press is in receipt of secret orders not to publish details of the horrors of the famine. Sofia, Dec. 14.

Prince Alexander of Battenburg did not apply for a pension from the Bulgarian Government, and it is o-enerally believed that the recent vote of £2OOO a year which was passed by the National Assembly was arranged by Prince Ferdinand as a surprise. Athens, Dec. 15.

The King of Greece, who was sufferino- from a mild attack of smallpox, is recovering. Lisbon, Dec. 14.

The Portuguese Press is angry at the Brazil Legation for absenting themselves from Dom Pedro’sfunneral in the Patheon,' though the King of Portugal was present.

Calcutta, Dec. 14, Desultory fighting is reported at Gilgit. It is reported that the snow will block the passes and isolate the the expedition whose object is to forestall the Russians in Pamir. Hong Kong, Dec. 14. The alleged object of the Chinese revolt is to restore the Ming dynasty. The decisive defeat of the rebels has been confirmed. New York, Dec. 14. A riot has taken place at Denver, the chief commercial emporium of Colorado, owing to foreign miners being employed. In the entente seven persons were killed. A revolt has broken out in. Honduras and 14,000 insurgents are reported to be attacking the troops of General Velasquez, Governor of Choluteco. Dec. 15.

A thousand cases of influenza are reported at Norfolk, Virginia. Major McKinley is one of the sufferers. While in Ceylon General Booth converted sixteen Mahommedans and Buddhists. Rro De Janeiro, Dec. 14. Complete order lias been restored here, and commercial confidence'in the Government is also restored. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney Dec. 14. Mr Waddell, Protectionist, has been elected to represent Bourke in the House of Assembly. Melbourne, Dec. 15. The Government will endeavour to bring the session to a close this week. The Commonwealth Bill will probably be included in the list of measures which are to be dropped. The Colonial Treasurer will obtain power to issue Treasury Bills to the amount of £2,000,000 in London, this step being taken as a precaution in the event of inability to place the first instalment of the £G,000,000 loan. The investigations held into the affairs of the Land and Credit Bank, one of the institutions which recently suspended payment, disclose the fact that Mr Taylor, the manager, and his wife and son, were overdrawn in their accounts to the extent of £14,000, while the securities are estimated at £II,OOO. Mrs Taylor’s bill for £43,000 is held, but its value is uncertain. The shareholders of the bank require to pay calls amounting from £24,000 to £45,000 to meet the liabilities. ' Adelaide, Dec. 14. A distastrous cyclone and terrific hailstorm resembling an American tornado devastated 10,000 acres of country near Tickera and Radina, in the northern part nf Yorke’s Peninsula, cutting a path three miles in width. The damage is estimated at £15,000. Hobart, Dec. 14, The barquentine Seabird, from New Zealand, is ashore in Macquarie harbour, but no lives are lost. She will probably be floated off. Dr Giffen denies that he has been instructed to inquire into the state of Australian finances in connection with Mr Goschen’s Trust Funds Bill.

LABOUR,

Sydney, Dec. 14. The Typographical Association, after passing a resolution approving of the German printers going out on strike, referred their appeal for monetary assistance to the Australian Typographical Union, being of opinion that the question was a national one. Dec. 15. The Early closing Bill has passed through committee in the Legislative Assembly. It provides that shopkeepers shall close at G o’clock on five days of the week and 10 o’clock on Saturdays; compels them to provide the employes with sitting accommodation and to allow them an hour for each meal, and prohibits the employment of lads under 14 years of age and girls under 15 if they have not passed the fifth standard. London, Dec. 14. The employes of thirteen more firms have joined Waterloo and Son’s bookbinder’s strike. The Paris printers are sending aid to the Berlin printers.