TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2316, 9 February 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, Feb. 4,

The head of each religious denomination will be invited to Mr Spurgeon's funeral. The Tabernacle will be draped in black on the occasion. The Congregational Union of England has expressed its sympathy with the Baptists, in the incalculable loss they have suffered by Mr Spurgeon's death.

Mr Cox, the Irish delegate, says that ther«i are no Pariielties in New Zealand.

Mr H. 11. Fowler, speaking at Plymouth, characterised Lord Salisbury's Exeter Hall speech as the worst appeal to the basest passions and religious bigotry ever made by an English statesman. All the animals at Islington market were killed in order to prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease. It is reported that the Jewish colonies in Palestine are a failure. Feb. 5.

The Agents-General will jointly apply to the War Office for a military adviser for the Australasian colonies. Three head of cattle, suffering from foot and mouth disease, have been seized in London. The animals were part of a shipment from Denmark. Fesla, an American electrician, is exhibiting in London a surprising method of producing the electric light from vacuum bulks without heat.

Cardinal Manning's will has been proved at under £IOO.

Sir John Gorst considers that education will aid the spread of Toryism among the working population.

Divers who have inspected the Eider report that it will be hopeless to attempt to get her off.

Feb. 1

Sir W. V. Harcourt thinks that the result of the Eossendale election shows that the Tories are doubting the value of their alliance with the Unionists.

Shipowners are incensed at the evidence given by Mr S. Plimsoll before the Royal Commission on Labour, and assert that many of his statements devoid of truth. They announce their intention of bringing evidence before the Commission to refute Mr Plimsoll's statements.

When placed in the dock in the perjury case Mrs Osbone fainted, and the case had to be adjourned, prisoner being sent to Holloway prison, where there is an infirmary. At a meeting at Kennington Sir Gr. O. Trevelyan, on behalf of the Gladstone Liberal party, initiated a campaign for the conversion of Tory seats in London.

One hundred and fifty tenants on the Ponsonby estate have agreed to purchase their holdings under Lord Ashbourne's Act, upon terms which Sir H. F. Ponsonby offered in 1887. Cavarqua, an Italian, has been arrested in Birmingham for having a number of bombs in his possession. He is supposed to be connected with the Walsall anarchists.

The Bank of England has declined to facilitate the establishment of a gold currency in Austria. Sir Saul Samuel, in replying to comments made by the Statist on Australian borrowing, reminds fi"' ciers that restricted " -". U 1" means restricted - borrowing British - ~ disbursements to »«» 81 . manufacturers, and he says that if New South Wales is unable to borrow in London or elsewhere for the construction of railways which are earning full interest, then it is time for the colony to consider how the works can be carried on from colonial resources. Sir Saul Samuel also draws attention to the fact that if a short wheat harvest in New South Wales in 1890 meant a loss of £600,000, the increase of sheep in the colony during the same period meant a gain of £1,900,000. Mr Justin McCarthy has been re-elected chairman of the Sessional Committee of the Irish party, with a committee of eight advisers. The Rev. James Spurgeon, Mr Moody, the American Evangelist, and the Rev. Archibald Brown, are mentioned as probable successors to the late Rev. C, H. Spurgeon.

H.M.S. Victoria will return to Malta. She has only received slight injuries. The double bottom was the means of saving the vessel.

Paris. Feb. 4,

Cooper one of the Englishmen imprisoned on a charge of espionage at St. Etierinfi, has appealed and got his sentence increased. Feb. 5. The Court has decided that His Holiness the Pope can inherit property in France, subject to the approval of the Government.

A financial scandal has been unearthed in Paris, and two bank managers have been arrested. It is stated that a number of frauds were perpetrated in connection witli the floating of recent loans.

I Lisbon, Feb. 6. The proposition that Senor Carvallia, I late Minister of Finance, should be im- | peached for advancing 8,000,000 francs J to a railway company without the cog- ! nisance of the Cabinet is being disj cussed in the Cortes. J Madrid, Feb. 6. ! At Xeres five anarchists were sentenced to death and three to penal servitude for life. Berlin, Feb. 5. The police have placed a large number of Socialists in this cily under arrest. A drift of ice caused upwards of thirty barges to break their moorings at Breslau. Several of the vessels were sunk, forty persons being drowned. Feb. 6. The German press refers in uncomplimentary terms to the late Sir Morell Mackenzie. The Empress Frederick declares that by the death of the eminent specialist she has lost one of her dearest friends. St. Petersburg, Feb. 4. It is alleged that officials of the Russian Red Cross Society embezzled no less than thirteen million of roubles intended for the relief of starving peasants. Feb. 6. The Grand Duchess Xema, eldest daugher of the Czar, is bethrothed to the Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovitch. The Ameer of Bokhara has sent a contribution of 100,000 roubles to the famine relief fund. / Hong Kong. Feb. 5. The mandarians of Mongolia who are suspected of connivance with the rebels, will be dismissed. Zanzibar, Feb. 6. Emin Pasha, in his journey from Wadelai, came across the track of a band of Arabs who were driving twelve hundred slaves to the coast. Scores of unfortunate wretches had been killed because they were unable to keep up with the others. Washington, Feb. 4. A conference has been arranged between representatives of Canada and the United States, for the purpose of discussing reciprocity. An American company, with a cap- _ ital of £2,000,000, have made arrangements for establishing a gambling resort on the lines ot Monte Carlo in an island off the Mexican coast, near Vera Cruz.

Valparaiso, Feb. 6

The house of Mr Egan, the United States Minister, is being guarded by police in order to overawe the mob. The Chilians who attacked the sailors of the United States warship Baltimore will be sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from four months to thirty months. Buenos Ayres, Feb. 4.

Russian Jews in the Argentine are discontented and desire to return to Europe.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, Feb. 5. The Customs Tariff Bill has passed through committee. Stanbury has agreed to row Sullivfl** for the championship and • c °~ „ •"* £SOO a side. or murder was perpetrated last close to a main thoroughfare. A woman, whose name is unknown, was found almost decapitated. Numbers of people were about at the time, and the affair is at present a mystery.

Feb. 7,

In the course of their investigation the police discovered a man named Macrow with his throat cut in the vicinity of the quarter where a woman was atrociously murdered on Friday night. He confessed that he had murdered the woman, who was his wife in a fit of jealousy. Macrow's wound is not likely to prove fatal. Twenty years ago his brother was hanged for a similar offence. Melbourne, Feb. 5.

Owing to the state of his health Mr Service is unlikely to accept office again in any Ministry ; and Mr Deakin has also announced that he finds himself unable to take any important part in politics. Adelaide, Feb. 7.

The Earl of Kintore emphatically denies that he is to be transfered to New Zealand in succession to Lord Onslow. He says that he cannot imagine how the rumour originated.