TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2318, 13 February 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Feb. 9. Colonial stocks are very depressed. The best friends of the colonies among the financial authorities consider that the situation daily grows graver, and expect that there will be a serious weakening of the credit of the colonies unless public works are stopped. They insist that the colonies must borrow everything locally for at least a year. U

Isolated cases of foot and mouth disease still exist in the outskirts.of London.

Sir W. J. Sendall has been appointed Governor of Cyprus. It is alleged that the Pope is dividing England into two provinces for ecclesiastical purposes.

The ballot of Durham miners is adverse to a reduction of wages. Thousands of people, including many workmen, daily view the remains of the late Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, lying in the Tabernacle,

Feb. 10. Sixty thousand people attended the funeral service at the Tabernacle, Feb. 11. General Waller is dead.

Mr De Cobain, the recusant member for Belfast, is ill and unable to stand his trial. The electors have petitioned to have the seat declared vacant.

It is stated that Bishop Clifford, of Clifton, or Bishop Vaughan,of Salford, will be choson as successor to Cardinal Manning.

The Standard asserts that the fall in colonial stocks is due to the failures in Melbourne and Brisbane.

The Daily Chornicle, in attempting to reassure investors, points out that it is impossible to effect rapid retrenchment in the Australian colonies.

The Waterloo Cup is creating some little interest, and the nomination of Colonel North is supported at 4 to 1. Obituary.-—The Right Hon. Sir James Caird, the eminent agricultural authority, aged 76. Four services in memory of the late Rev, C. H. Spurgeon were held in the Tabernacle. Canon Fleming, Mr Sankey, the evangelist, the Rev. Mr McLaren, and many of the leading dissenters were present. The late Bishop Perry leaves bequests to several charities in Melbourne, and £IOOO each to the Bishops of Melbourne and Ballarat for Church purposes, Paris, Feb. 10. An Anarchist editor was sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment for inciting to pillage and murder. The Czar has sent decorations to the workmen at St, Etienne, in France, who denounced the two Englishmen who were convicted of trying secretly to obtain the design of the new Russian rifle.

Feb. 11. The French Government are founding a museum of commerce, at a cost of £BOOO. Madrid, Feb. 9. The Spanish Government is taking steps to repress interference with the liberty of labor, Feb. 10. Four of the Anarchists have been executed, and there is considerate excitement in Spain at the death sentence being carried out. A bomb was exploded at Barcelona, and rioting has taken place in Zamora. Berlin, Feb. 10. The hostility of Prussian teachers to the Education Bill has been silenced. The German loans have been subscribed threefold. Brussels, Feb. 9.

A sleeping earrriage of the express train between here and Braila caught fire and eighteen of the occupants were burned to death or killed in attempting to escape, Vienna Feb. 10. It is expected that Austria will obtain sufficient gold in two years to establish a currency without disturbing the market. St. Petersburg, Feb, 10. Eleven warships have been added to the Russian Pacific squadron, and in addition to these the fleet will be augmented by a number of smaller vessels. Ottawa, Feb. 9. Mr J. S. D. Thompson, Minister of Justice, has gone to Washington to arrange the reciprocity treaty with the United States. It is feared that his mission will be fruitless. New York, Feb. 11. It is rumoured that Mr Blaine is intriguing to obtain President Harrison’s defeat for the Presidency. He denies any intention of resigning the Secretaryship of State. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Feb. 10. The Legislative .Assembly passed the Customs Bill.

Shares in the Junction mine, Broken Hill, have fallen to 5s 6d. Feb. 11. The Lubeck, from Samoa, brings news that a large meeting will shortly be held to decide whether the King’s Government or Mataafa’s cause shall fee adhered to. Mr Eggert, of the German Land Commission, desires to resign on the ground of ill-health. The Assembly having affirmed the imposition of the stock tax, a Bill to effect it has been read a first time. It provides for a tax on horses and cattle of 6s per head; on sheep, 6cT; and on swine, 2s, The Government are establishing-a labor bureau. Melbourne, Feb. 10. Mr Munrp resigned the Premiership to-day, and Mr Shiels has been sent for. Captain Gill, who commanded the yacht Beagle, has returned from Hongkong. He says that Bell and Davis, , whom he always knew as Broom and Douglas, treated him with every con- ' sideration. He resigned command of the vessel after the Honolulu trouble.