TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2302, 7 January 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Jan. 4, The barque Childwell has been sunk in a collision off Flushing on the coast of Cornwall. Fifteen of those on board were drowned. Further rioting in connection with the Salvation Army has taken place at Eastbourne. The Company which was formed to work the opal mines in Queensland will shortly go into liquidation. The stones obtained from the mines are of inferior quality. Referring to the attempt to blow up Dublin Castle, the Irish Press declare that the outrage was not the v&rk of any political party, and that it has no political signficance. Lord Randolph Churchill denies that payable gold has been found in Mashonaland.

Jan. 5. Sir George Airey, the astronomer, is dead.

It is reported that the attempt to blow up Dublin Castle originated with the Irish dynamiters in Chicago. It is rumoured that two army corps are ready to embark for India owing to frontier troubles.

The R.M.S. Kaikoura is loading for Port Chalmers and northern ports. The Pall Mall Gazette says that all British warships fitted up with boilers of a type similar to those on the Australian cruiser, have proved to be absolutely worthless for speed, and that it is dangerous for the stokers to work near them. It is imperative, the Pall Mall Gazette says, that this type of boilers should be superseded. The Wesleyans are uniting with the Salvation Army in maintaining the right to hold open air meetings in Eastbourne. Pa ms, Jan. d. President Carnot in the course of a speech said he trusted the year just entered upon would be one of peace and prosperity. M. De Maupassant, the French author twice attempted to destroy himself at Cannes, but was prevented. He is however, in a critical condition. Jan. u. M. De Maupassant, the French author has been removed to a lunatic asylum. Rome, Jan, 4. His Holiness the Pope, in replying to greetings from the Emperor of Germany, hished him sucsess in his struggle against Socialism, which was the common enemy of the religion of the Empire. Sofia, Jan, 4. The Bulgarian Government in a note to the Sultan express a friendly tone towards France, but decline to recede from the position taken in excluding French journalists. Berlin, Jan. 4. A socialist has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment at Kalbe, a town of Prussian Saxony, for omitting to cheer the Emperor William on a public occasion, St. Petersburg, Jan. 3. The Russian Government has given orders for the construction of four large ironclads. Jan. 4. The Grand Duke Sergius, whose tyranny in Moscow is said to have provoked the displeasure of the Czar tried to purchase bread in a shop in Moscow under disguise. Three police officers hustled him and then arrested him, but they committed suicide when they discovered that their prisoner was the Grand Duke.

Disclosures of corruption in connection with the administration of relief to the peasants continue to be made.

The majority of the Nihilists who were arrested in Warsaw, on suspicion of being concerned in a plot against the life of the Czar, have been released. Constantinople, Jan. o. The Porte is disposed to enter into direct agreement with England re« garding Egypt, Singapore, Jan. 5. Orangkyahra Malix, a chief, at the head of five hundred rioters, holds the jungle of Pahianga, and defies the British to displace him. Hong Kong, Jan. 3. China favours the proposal that Great Britain should secure the Pamir district. Capetown. Jan. 3. The R.M.S. Ruapehu left to-day for Hobart and Auckland, Washington. Jan. 4. President Harrison has appointed two Democratic Judges. Mexico, Jan. 3. The Government have offered fifty thousand dollars for General Garza's head, Garza is loader of the rebel troops, Jan. 4. The rebel leader General Garza has 2000 armed followers. Valparaiso, Jan. 4. Judge Foster, who tried the Chilians accused qf stabbing the men

belonging to the United States warship Baltimore, has sentenced two of them to penal servitude.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. MELP.onr.NE. Jan. 4. In their first innings Lord Sheffield’s team made 234. Jan. 5. The second innings of the Australians closed for 236. The London correspondent of the Age had an interview with one of the largest Australian bank managers in the city on the subject of Victorian finance. During the conversation reference was incidentally made to New Zealand, and the bank manager stated that, as a general rule, everything connected with Austfhlia was extremely sound, and the way in which New Zealand had pulled round, and the sacrifices which the people had made to preserve the colony’s credit had done good to the whole of Australia. Mr T. P. Fallon, Consul-General for Columbia, and Consul for Chili, has committed suicide by shooting himself. The cause is said to have been disastrous speculations. Sydney, Jan. 4, Hundreds of thousands of acres in the vicinity of Brookong. in the Riverina district, have been laid waste by bush fires, which are the largest ever known in that part of the colony. The fire, which was caused by a child treading on a wax match, is still burning, and as the weather is hot. it will continue unless rain falls. It is calculated that it will take two or three seasons to restore the grass to • the condition it was in previous to the fire. The bush fires in Riverina district have done more than £50,000 worth of damage. Jan. 5. A fire broke out on the barque W. H. Lincoln, and js likely to burn all day. The vessel had nearly completed discharging cargo. The forepart of the vessel is # burnt to the j water’s edge, and the after part is i merely a shell. The foremast and ! mainmast fell this morning, and the mizeen mast was cut away for safety. The damage caused by the fire on board the Lincoln is estimated at £15,000. The hull is insured in New York, but the amount of the policy is not known, 45,000 feet of timber were destroyed. The cargo is in sued for 12,000 dollars. The vessel is a complete wreck. Brisbane, Jan. 5, The revenue for the first half of the financial year shows an increase of £55,000 over the Treasurer’s estimate. Newcastle, Jan. 4. The ship lolanthe has arrived safely after a protracred voyage of nearly one hundred days from Brisbane, Adverse winds were responsible for the protracted voyage. LABOUR. London, Jan. 3. The Northumberland miners have agreed to a reduction of 5 per cent, in their wages. The Standard states that the Government are determined to take steps to satisfy the lawful aspirations and feasible requests of the labour party. English Trades Unions have sent £4OOO to the German printers out on strike. Jan. 4. The shoemakers generally threaten to strike for higher wages. The bakers in Brunswick have framed a new tariff of wages, and threaten to strike unless the masters adopt it. RAVAGES OF INFLUEZA. London, Jan. 3. In Antwerp the death rate from influenza is sixty a day. At Vienna the hospitals are unable to cope with the epidemic. In Paris, Hamburg, Brussels and the Hague, the disease is of a virulent type. Influenza is being severely felt in Ireland, and is ravaging Milan, Genoa, and Schleswig. Jan. 5. Influenza is universal throughout he southern half of England. Brussels, Jan. 1. Influenza is spreading rapidly throughout Belgium. One hundred and eighty-four lunatics have died at Gheel since Christmas. Gheel, which is twenty-six miles S.E. of Antwerp, is celebrated as a place of treatment for the insane. The death is announced from influenza of Emile de Lavelaye, the Belgian author. Berlin, Jan. G. A report is in circulation to the effect that Pfieffer, Dr Koch’s son-in-law, has, discovered the bacillus of I influenza.