TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2320, 18 February 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. 1 London, Feb. 14. 1 General Booth reviewed severf thousand Salvationists in Hyde Pari whence they marched in processio ' to headquarters. Traffic in the cit was blocked for over an hour by th concourse of people. Banners wer , displayed depicting the incidents ii ; General Booth's colonial tour. 1 General Booth said the welcome h received in Australia was the greates yet bestowed on any Christian minister The Chronicle's China cor respondent states that General Tchen| Kaitong has been Executed on tin ground of complicity in the recen massacres. Mr Shaw, of Coventry, claims tc have invented a practical flying machine, the pinions of which are 24fi J in breadth and 100 ft long. Another collision has taken place at Eastbourne between the police and the Salvation Army. The latter was dispersed and several arrested. The directors of the New Zealand Mortgage and Investment Association, Limited, are seriously thinking of dissolving the Company, owing to losses. A meeting is called for the 26th inst., to consider the matter. Feb. 15. ! Isolated cases of foot and mouth disease continue to be reported in England. The reported revolution in Brazil is denied. Colonial stocks are firmer and the tone of the market is improving. The deaths are announced of the Rev. Donald Fraser and Admiral Prove Wallis. Dr. Wilhelm Junker, the African traveller and naturalist, is dead. Colonel Olcott has resigned the presidency of the Theosopical Society, on the ground of ill-health. The Freeman and National Press are coalescing. Mr F. Hankey, M.P., for Chestsey, is dead. The personplty of the late Hon. Algernon Tollemache is proved at £1,250,000, £500,000 of which is in New Zealand. The bulk of the income goes to the widow. Mr Willox, the Tory candidate, was returned for Everton division of Liverpool, which was rendered vacant by the death of Mr Edward Whitby. Madame Melba will make an appeal to the Court to-morrow, with a view of preventing her husband taking ex parte evidence in Vienna until the point has been decided whether her marriage is an English or a colonial one. Cavarqua, the Italian, who was arrested in Birmingham for having in his possession a number of bombs, and who was believed to have been connected with the Walsall Anarchists, has been discharged from custody, his statement that the bombs were intended for the destruction of rabbits in Australia having been proved to the satisfaction of the court. Professor Morane, a tutor at Oxford University, who was exposed by Truth for feloniously blackmailing Lord Hothfield has been arrested on the charge and remanded,, Feb. 16. Those arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the anarchical plot at Walsall, have been committed fc# trial. A fierce esterly gale with a heavy snowfall has been experienced in the greater part of England, delaying trains and interfering with telegraph communication, Paris, Feb. 14. News has just been received that the great National Porcelain Factory at Serves is on fire. Rome, Feb. 14. Negotations between Italy and Switzerland for special commercial arrangements have been broken off, and a general tariff will come into force between the two countries. Berlin, Feb. 14. The Kings of Saxony and Wurtemburg and many German princes have given donations towards the national monument to Bismarck. Feb. 15. The Government has decided to abandon the projected expulsion of the Jesuits. During a service in Berlin Cathedral, at which the Emporer was present, a lunatic shouted " The millenium has come." A panic was excited as the congregation feared that an Anarchist was about to make some demonstration. In connection with the plots recently discovered, sixty Anarchists have been arrested in Berlin alone. Belgrade, e b. 15. Famine is threatened in Montenegro, owing to the failure of the crops. St. Petersburg, Feb. 14. Sixteen thousand refuges from the famine-stricken districts have arrived in the city, and, bj' order of the authorities, have been billeted on the residents of the town.

i In many districts there will be no | wheat sown this spring, in consequence of the scarcity of horses. The Jews are making preparation for a universal exodus from .Russia. Feb. 16. Three hundred and fifty Polish Anarchists have been exiled to Siberia, and 160 have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment in the prisons of Warsaw. Athens, Feb. 14. Greece is increasing her taxes, in order to avoid bankruptcy. Cairo, Feb. 14. Cherif Pasha claims that the Khalifate defeated Abdullah at Khartoum, and that fighting still continues. Kassala is reported to be depopulated. Singapore, Feb. 14. Sir C. C. Smith, Governor of the Straits Settlement, has introduced in the Legislative Council a Bill prohibiting the Sunday working of ships except for the landing of mails. Yokohama, Feb. 15. The Japanese Government have voted £IOO.OOO for the representation of the country at the Chicago Exhibition. Ottawa, Feb. 15. It is reported that the mission of the Hon. J. S. D. Thompson to Washington to endeavour to effect reciprocity with the United States has failed in consequence of Sir J. Paunceforte, British Minister there, informing the Secretary for State for the United States that Mr Thompson had no authority to complete such an arrangement. Feb. 16. Mr J. S. D. Thompson has succeeded in arranging the basis of reciprocity between Canada and the United States. Washington, Feb. 14. The Committee of Ways and Means in the Congress is in favor of admitting wool free. There is immense excitement on the New York Stock Exchange over the proposed railway amalgamation. Shares in the Pennsylvania Reading rose £9. About a million and a-half shares changed hands in New York alone. A heavy failure in the cotton trade is expected in the United States.

Feb. 15

Typhus fever has broken out amongst the German and Russian immigrants. Thirteen hundred of them have been placed in quarantine.

New Feb. 15

Auroras of astounding brilliancy are witnessed in America. They are attributed to the spots on the sun, covering one fifth of its diameter.

Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 14. The mortality from yellow fever at Santos continues. Valparaiso, Feb. 15. The sailors belonging to the United States warship Baltimore who were injured in the street row are claiming 200,000 dollars from the Chilian Government.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Feb. 15. Proposals have e en made to Mr Dibbs with, & view to obtaining a subsidy for laying a cable to California or Canada. The proposed cable would start at Gladstone, Queensland, and go thence to Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa and Honolulu. The necessary guarantees are said to be forthcoming from the promoters. To-day the Government sold 100 ft. frontage of a new street in front of the Post Office for £12,600. Other allotments were withdrawn, as the reserve of £1750 per foot was not reached. Feb. 16. Four thousand people attended the requiem mass to-day, to the memory of the late Cardinal Manning. Melbourne, Feb. 16. His Excellency the Governor to-day received a petition from citizens against the appointment of Mr Munroas Agent General. In reply he explained that he was unable to do no more than to refer the petitioners to the Cabinet, which had duly appointed Mr Munro. The second reading of the Electoral Bill, which provides for the "one-man-one-vote system," was rejected. The Divorce Extension Bill passed the Legislative Assembly by 38 to 18. The Morning Herald in a eulogistic article refers to New Zealand's abstention from debt and borrowing, and mentions the building up of the great meat industry. The article concludes: —" New Zealand in extricating herself from her embarrassments has shown us all the way, and the only way, by which true prosperity way be gained." At a crowded meeting of citizens it was resolved to petition the Government against Mr Munro's appointment to the Agent-Generalship. The general election takes place in the second or third week in April. Mr Sliiels, the Premier, proposes that taxation shall be increased in order to assist the finance of the colony.