TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2297, 24 December 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London. Dec. 20. An old man named William Young, seventy-four years of age, who visited Pontefract to secure a legacy of £IOO,OOO left by an Australian relative, met with an accident on the railway platform, and was killed. A new Parnellite paper has been started in Dublin under the name of The Independent. It demands absolute self-government for Ireland. Mr George W. Hastings, M.P. for the Eastern Division of Worcester, has been arrested on a warrant charging him with obtaining £15,000 by fraud as trustee under a will. An extradition treaty has been signed between England and the principality of Monaco, in the south of France. The Brindisi mail contract has been renewed for a year. Dec. 21. Mr Maddison Morton, dramatic author, is dead. The Duke of Devonshire, aged 83, is dead. Dec. 22. Mr Hastings, the member for Worcester, who is charged with obtaining a large sum of money by fraud, has been remanded. Bail was refused. Liverpool has refused to confer the freedom of the city on Mr Gladstone, Severe frosts are being experienced throughout England, and skating is general. Hundreds of miles of ice extend between Northampton and Wisbeach, in Cambridgeshire, the country having lately been flooded. Beklin, Dec, 21. Several millions of marks have been subscribed to erect a national monument to Prince Bismarck.

Dec. 21. The Comte de Pans is disbanding his Press and Political organisations. In a conflict on the Tunisian frontier 160 Arabs were killed. Constantinople, Dec. 21. France and Bulgaria have appealed to the Porte. France complains of the action of Bulgaria, who refuses to recognise the right of foreign Powers to interfere in internal affairs. It is stated that the Porte upholds the stand taken by the Bulgarian Govarnment. St. Petep.sbukg, Dec. 22. The three Grand Dukes have subscribed 120,000 roubles to the famine relief fund, and the Czartwitch has given a donation of 50,000 roubles. Extensive relief works are being organised, and will be ready by spring. Cairo, Dec. 21. Refugees from Khartoum state that for nine years they were in ignorance events in the world. They say that Khartoum is in ruins, and that a small force could easily capture the Soudan. v

Zanzibar, Dec. 21. Zanzibar will be declared a free port in Frebruary. Ottawa, Dec. 20. The Liberals in Qnebec are bitterly indignant at the dismissal of the Hon. M. Mercier. The French population are supporting him, and it is expected that the new Government formed in Quebec will be defeated and have to dissolve in order to secure a majority. The Hon. M. Mercier denounced the Lieutenant-Governor (the Hon. A. R. Augers) as a malicious political opponent. Dec. 22.

The Hon. C. 15. 13. Deboucherville has formed a Tory Ministry for Quebec in succession to the Hon H, Mercier’s Government. Hew Yobic, Dec. 20. The Herald states that the American naval authorities are preparing to transport an army of 13,000 men to Chili in case of necessity. Washington, Dec. 20. The American navy is secretly massing in the South Pacific. Dec. 21. In the event of war breaking out with Chili, the United States’ Government will purchase the steamers Zealandia, Australia, Mariposa, and Alameda, to act as tenders to the warships defending the coast, and to assist in the transport of troops. Dec. 22. The United States’ military forces on the Canadian frontier will be trebled within the next six months. This step is being taken by way of precaution. Walt Whitman, the poet, is in a critical state. The Secretary of State has assured General Monte, President of Chili, that he is confident that an amicable settlement of the difficulty will be made after a complete enquiry into the disturbance. Valparaiso, Dec. 21. The Chilian Government has settled the claims made by German and Swedish residents for compensation for losses sustained during the late revolution. Rio De Janeiro, Dec. 20. A revolt has broken out in Espiritu Santo, a province on the Atlantic, South of Bahia, and the situation in Bahia also is critical. Dec. 21. The rebels in Espiritu Santo Province have desposed the ViceGovernor and surrounded the capital.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney Dec. 21. The Mararoa did the passage from Wellington in hours. Dr Schwabel, an expert from Germany, who is experimenting at Broken Hill, has discovered a means of treatment of low grade sulphides, by which a new lease of life will be given to all the mines. By the doctor’s process ore carrying 12oz of silver to the ton can be dealt with profitably. Dec. 22. Mr Harris, the millionaire, was run over and killed on the railway at Paramatta to-day. The lolanthe, ship, from Brisbane to Newcastle, is missing. She is now 81 days out. In the House to-night, Mr Reid, leader of the Opposition, raised a technical point. He contended that as the question of the imposition of duties had been dealt with and negatived earlier in the session, the resolutions on the Financial Statement were out of order. The Speaker ruled that there vast difference between an abstract resolution and ways and means, therefore the present resolutions were in order. A debate is proceeding on the motion for the reception of the resolutions as passed by the Committee; ' The House has passed a motion affirming that no system of Federation

will be acceptable unless elections under it are carried out out on the one-man-one-vote principle. Melbourne, Dec. 21. The Colonial Treasurer hopes to be able to float the first instalment of the six million loan early next year. Adelaide, Dec. 21. The new Licensing Bill has passed. It pi’ovides for complete Sunday closing. Under the old Act the hotels were allowed to remain open for two hours on Sundays. Brisbane, Dec. 22. The Labourers’ Union have affirmed the desirableness of amalgamating with thesShgarers Union.-