TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2301, 5 January 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Jan. 1. The officials calculate that 27,000 deaths from influenza took place in Great Britain during the year. Obituary Prince Victor of Hohenlohfe'* Langebury, commonly known as Count Gliehen, in his 59th year. Pie held the position of Governor and Constable of Windsor Castle. Pie had been suffering from typhoid fever, and more recently from cancer.

Mr Tom Mann has abandoned his views for a universal eight hours in favour of local option in the matter of adopting the principle. It is generally understood that Sir W. D. Jervois is willing to accept a further term as Governor of New Zealand. The name of Viscount Gormanston, Governor of British Guiana, is mentioned in connection with the position. An explosion took place to-day under the Council Chambers in Dublin Castle, resulting in serious wreckage to the building. Experts declare that the explosive used was gun-cotton. The Council should have met this afternoon. Many workmen are employed in the precincts of the building, but at the time of the explosion they were away at lunch. One of the high officials of the council had only vacated his seat two minutes previous to the explosion. It is supposed that the explosives had been placed in the cellar underneath the council room.

Her Majesty the Queen has conferred the following honours ;—Mr John Cotton, who has held various portfolios in South Australian ministries, and Mr Henry John Wrixon, formerly Attorney-General of Victoria to be K.C.M.Gs., Captain Arthur Moore, who represented England at the recent Australian Defence Commission, and Mr John Fitzgibbon, ex-Town Clerk of Melbourne, to be C.M.Ss. The following are created Peers: Sir Frederick Roberts, Admiral Sir Arthur Acland, and Sir W. Thomson, President of the Royal Society. The steamer Oroya, belonging to the Orient line, collided with a Danish schooner in the channel. The latter sank, and the captain was drowned. Great difficulty was experienced in saving the crew.

In an article in the Nineteenth Century Lord Brassey contends that at no distant date further concerted action to provide adequate naval defence for commerce at the antipodes must be considered. He suggests that the colonies should assume the cost of all vessels maintained in Australian waters, and advises Home Government to permanently station in Australia ships of obsolete warfare (sic) in Europe. Though he admits that the colonies are now capable of defending their own from hostile attack, Lord Brassey thinks it would beprudent to institute a Royal Commission to inqure into the system of Imperial naval defence, as a prelude to another colonial conference.

Influenza is spreading in Essex, Hampshire and Devonshire, the disease in the last named county being of a virulent type. The malady is also raging in Marseilles and Antwerp. The revenue collected throughout the United Kingdom last quarter was £23,900,000.

The Pelican Club has been dissolved. Mr H. Labouchere, M.P., is suffering from influenza. No clue has been discovered to the perpetrators of the dastardly outrage at Dublin Castle. Valuable seams of coal have been discovered in Northamptonshire. Influenza is spreading rapidly in most of the capitals on the Continent. Madrid, Jan. 1.

A report that Japan had seized the volcanic islands adjacent to the Caroline group is confirmed. The Spanish Government is making enquiries into the matter. Berlin, Jan. 2.

The Emperor will attend the celebration of the golden wedding of the King of Denmark in May next. The Emperor Hopes to meet the Czar there. Germany offers to arbitrate in the dispute between Chili and the United States. St, Petersburg, Jan. 1. A conference on the Pamir question will be held in this city in spring, between representatives of England, Russia, China and Afghanistan. One-twelfth of the population of Finland is reported to be in a starving condition. Constantinople, Jan. 1. The Porte denies the truth of the rumour that it has arranged an alliance with France and Russia. Buda Pesth, Jan. 2. The chief cashier in the savings bank here embezzled more than

1,000,000 florins, the moneys of the institution. On his defalcations being discovered he comramitted suicide. Plong Kong, Jan. 2. Maurauding bands of peasantry in north-east China are massacring Mongols and destroying the temples. Washington, Jan. 2. A steamboat accident happened on the Canea river, in Columbia, and thirty-nine persons perished. Mexico, Jan. 1. The Mexican troops have killed General Garcia and joined the rebels under General Gorga, Valparaiso, Jan. 1. A coalition Ministry has been formed in Chili, and expects to settle the United States difficulty. —— ■- - AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney Jan. 1. The revenue for the year is £10,047,000, being £548,000 in excess of that for the previous year, and £89,000 above the Treasurer’s estimate. The largest bush fire ever known in Riverina is raging. At Brookongong tens of thousands of acres have been laid waste, and crops, sheep, and grass destroyed. Melbourne, Jan. 1. The revenue for the first half of the current financial year is £3,790,000, which is about £500,000 •proportionately less than the Treasurer’s estimate. One of the most striking features of this year’s commerce is the difference between the city and country trade. Melbourne shows a decline, but the country has a good record, There was glorious weather to-day when the first of three matches between Lord Sheffield’s team and the Australians began on the Melbourne cricket ground. Twenty thousand people were present. The combined team were the first to bat, and at the call of time had lost 7 wickets for 191 runs. Jan. 2. The first innings of the combined Australians closed for 240 runs. The Englishmen in their first innings made 248.