TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2304, 12 January 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Jan. 7. The Times admits that the cricket team taken to the colonies by Lord Sheffield is nearly if not quite the best that England has sent out. The paper adds that pan-Brittanic contests ■in the cricket field foster a taste which has always inspired enthusiasm among Anglo-Saxons. The stranding of the barque Dominion, bound to Port Pirie, which was wrecked in the Channel early last month, was the subject of an enquiry to-day, when the Board found the accident was due to the refusal of the crew to do their duty, and acquitted the captain all 3 blame whatever. '

Mr Michael Davitt has issued a writ against the Dublin Independent, claiming £SOOO for alleged libel. The emigration returns for the year have been published. They show that the number of British emigrants to the United States was 156,000; to Canada, 22,000; to Australasia, 19,000; and to other places 11,000. The Irish emigration to the United States w'as 53,000 ; to Canada. 13,000, and to other places 4000.

The Duke of Edinburgh will give a dinner to 6000 of the poor of London on the occasion of the marriage of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale.

Mr Henry Irving’s son Lawrence shot himself in the lungs at Belfast to-day. It is believed to be accidental. He lies in a very critical condition.

Gold has been discovered on the Earl of Belmont’s estate, Ballintrim, Country Tyrone. A secret official enquiry is being held into the explosion at Dublin Castle. Jan. 9. It is rumoured that General Booth has nominated his eldest daugher to succeed him as chief of the Salvation Army. The gift of the City of London to the Duke of Clarence and Avondale on his wedding will be a diamond necklace, valued at £I6BO, and a dinner service valued at £945. The heaviest fall of snow experienced in Ireland for many years lias taken place. Traffic in Belfast is suspended in consequence. The Right Rev. Henry Philpott, D.D., ex-Bishop of Worcester is dying. Obituary The Dowager Lady Sandhurst, Lord Randolph Churchill has returned from the Transvaal, which, he says, is Africa’s greatest possession. He has a high opinion of the loyalty of the Dutch in Cape Colony, but professes dislike to the Transvaal Boers. Paris, Jan. 7. M. De Maupassant, 'who was re r moved to a lunatic asylum after a second attempt op Ijis Ijfe at Cannes, is hopelessly insane. The French Government are sending a military expedition toTouat, an oasis of Central Africa. The expedition will be under the command of General Thomassin. Jap. 8, The French Chamber of Deputies has finally passed the new Tariff Bill by 394 to 114. It comes into operation next month, Berlin, Jan. 7. A most stringent bill, initiated by Emperor, tor the suppression of drunkenness is about to be introduced in the Reichstag. Madrid, Jan. 9. It is reported here that British troops have arrived at the Canary Islands. In official circles in London the report is disbelieved, Rome, Jan, 9.

Italy is mediating in .the dispute between the Bulgarian and the French Government on the basis of the withdrawal of the expulsion of M. Chadournes, the French journalist, fie agreeing not to return to Bulgaria. St. Petersburg, Jan, 7,

It is expected that the Czar will dismiss the Minister of the Interior, owing to his alleged blundering in connection with the famine. The Czar is very much enraged at the continued disclosures of maladministration of the relief for tfie peasants. In the famine districts throughout Russia there is acute distress, but little actual starvation, Jan. 9. There is general fear in Russia that there will be a rising amongst the peasants in the spring. Tangieus, Jan. 8. The British Minister has left here for Gibraltar in 11.M.5. Goshawk. Teheran, Jan. 7.

Order has been restored here by the Shah agreeing to abolish the new foreign monopolies. Jan. 9.

The priests are coercing the Shah to abolish the commercial concessions granted to Europeans, on condition of tfie former keeping the populace quiet.

Calcutta, Jan. 7. The Indian Army will require to import a large number of remounts during this year, and it is reported that 1275 horses will be purchased in Australia and the Cape. Jan. 9. The Indian Government have decided to remit the rest of the sentences of those convicts who displayed heroism at the wreck of the steamer Enterprise, which sank in Port Blair harbour, in the Bay of Bengal, during a cyclone. Singapore, Jan. 8. One hundred and fifty Sikhs and 90 friendly Malays are advancing to suppress the rising in Pahang. Ottawa, Jan, 9. The North-West Territory lias abandoned the inhibition of liquor, and has reissued licenses. : The town, of Lachute, the chief town of Argenteuill County, has been destroyed. It is feared that many lives have been lost. Washington, Jan. 7. The house of Assembly has shelved a proposal to vote a sum of money for the assistance of Russian peasants, owing to the cruelty to which the Jews are subjected, and to the Czar giving public dinners during the existence of the famine. Jan. 8. It is expected that the Chicago Exhibition will be ready to receive exhibits in October next. Congress is to be asked to vote a sum of five million dollars for the exhibition. New York, Jan. 9. The agreement between England and the United States to refer the Behring Sea difficulty to arbitration has been signed. A colliery explosion has taken place at Krebs, and two hundred miners have been entombed. Jan. 10. In the colliery explosion at Krebs seventy persons were killed. One hundred of those entombed have been rescued alive. Others are known to be living, and the work of rescue is proceeding. Five more Alabama outlaws, including two women, have been lynched, Port-au-Prince, Jan. 8. A plot has been discovered in America to equip a man-of-war with the object of overthrowing General Hippolyte, President of Hayti, AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, Jan. 8. The schooner Templar has foundered off Cape Paterson. The captain and crew of two men are believed to have perished. The match between Lord Sheffield’s team, who played 12 men, v. IS men of East Melbourne was drawn. The visitors made 201 in their first innings. The local team knocked up 177 in their first innings and had two wickets dp\yu in their second innings for 35 at the call qf time. Sydney, Jan. 8. At a meeting of the representatives of the associated collieries an agreement was adopted limiting the output of coal this year to 884,000 tons. The output last year at the same collieries exceeded 1,200,000 tons. The Government intend to immediately carry out rainmaking experiments at Broken Hill. Jan. 10.

Special services held in the synagogue to-day for the purpose of raising money to aid the Russian Jews. £IOOO was collected. A violent thunderstorm broke over the city to-night, and the low-lying portions of the town were flooded. Much damage has been done by the submersion of the vaults in business places. Hobart, Jan. 8.

The Society for the Advancement of Science has opened its sittings, with Sir R. G. Hamilton, Governor of Tasmania, as president. The nest meeting will be held in Adelaide and the following year in Brisbane. The following officers have been appointed for the next meeting;—President, Professor Tate ; Vice-presidents, Sir R. G. Hamilton, Ferdinand von Mueller, Sir James Hector, Messrs Norton and H, C. Russell, B.A. Professor AV. H. Bragg, li.A., of the University of Adelaide, lias been appointed secretary. Perth, Jan. 8. A vessel has arrived at Fremantle from Mauritius with smallpox on board.