TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2321, 20 February 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Feb. 16. Mr Justice Jeune has granted an injunction restraining Captain Arm- , strong from proceeding with the taking of evidence in the Melba divorce case in Vienna -by a Commissioner, on the ground that he did not believe such evidence would be admissable in England. Mr Justice Jeune held that the Vienna Commission was vexatious and injurious to the procedure in the British Court. The emigrants who went to Brazil have returned to England in a sad plight, and are entering the workhouses.

The Government do, not iijtend to assist the crofters to emigrate to Canada this year.

The death is announced of Mr Henry Wardle, M.P. for Derbyshire South.

The north of England steamship owners are appealing to shipowners in England to make a second Suez Canal.

The London and Westminster Bank is offering £360,000 worth of Tasmanian Treasnry Bills at a price yielding 4f per cent. It is expected that they will be placed to-morrow. A Pacific Island Syndicate, with a capital of £50,000, has been registered. The Earl of Albemarle and Mr J. S. Balfour, M.P. for Burnley, are among the Directors. The Company will acquire the mineral rights of land, will grow fruit, and operate in the exploitation of mercantile business in the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and elsewhere. Messrs John Higginson and Joseph Ebbs Smith are Managing Directors. Feb. 17. The shipowners of the Clyde are establishing an insurance syndicate, as they consider that the rates demanded by Lloyds are exorbitant.

It is stated that the sale of Eucalyptus medicines has increased 300 per cent, since the influenza began its ravages, but the chemists are accused of adulterating them. The Dunedin art agent has secured numerous and valuable collections forthe local gallery. The Drink Bill for the year amounted to £141,250,000, being an average of £3 15s per head of the population. £IO,OOO in gold was found in a grave at Portaferry, County Down, Ireland.

Colonel Olcott, who resigned the presidency of the Theosophical Society, will devote his time to writing thosophic literature.

Feb. 18.

A heavy fall of snow has been experienced throughout Northern Europe, and in many places railway traffic is blocked. There has been several fresh outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in the vicinity of London recently. Mr Chamberlain, speaking in Devonshire, advised the country to insist that the Irish party should not be allowed to block the prosecution of reforms in England. Influenza is still raging in London. 216 deaths were reported during the week.

The late Mr W. H. Smith’s personalty was proved at under £1,700,000.

A receiving order has been granted against Benzon, the “ Jubilee Plunger,” The Court has ordered Mr Phil Robinson, from whom his wife recently obtained a divorce, to pay her arrears of wages and alimony immediately.

Paris, Feb. 16

The French have extended their authority over the Louat oasis south of Algeria, and caravans are now being taken under their protection. Feb. 17.

A pi’oposal made in the Chamber of Deputies to repeal the duties on articles of food, on the ground that they are strangling the working classes, was negatived. Louis Bonaparte, has been committed for trial for misappropriation of diamonds valued at £20,000, which are said to belong to his reputed wife. Rome, Feb. 17. Mount Vesuvius is in eruption. Berlin, Feb. 16.

The report that Kaiser Wilhelm’s land in New Guiana is unfit for European colonists is confirmed. It is reported that the officials, are all dying off.

The Professors in the German Universities are opposed to the Education Bill on the ground that it will curtail the State control of the educational institutions.

Feb. 17

Owing to a failure of the crops in East Prussia a famine in that district is imminent.

Vienna Feb. 17. The Archduchess Valerie is seriously ill with pneumonia. St. Petersburg, Feb. IG.

Pamphlets have been seized in Poland, directed against the Govern-

j merit and the landlords. Some i excitement was caused, j A manifesto is being issued by j malcontents in Poland urging a reI volution. | Ottawa, Feb. 16. i Mr Abbott, the Canadian Premier, is seriously ill from overwork. It is reported that the veto upon the immigration of Chinese into Canada will be removed and a poll-tax of £IOO enforced. Two of the Judges of the Royal Commission set up to investigate the Baie Chaleur railway scandal condemn the Hon. Mr Mercier and the Hon. Mr Langelier, Premier and President of the Council, respectively, of complicity, but the other Judges applied to acquit all the accused except of carelesseess. Calcutta, Feb. 16. The famine in the northern districts;, of India is assuming serious prb-“ portions. New York, Feb, 16. Edison’s new torpedo is a success. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, Feb. 18. March 15th is fixed for the raeetimg of the Postal Conference. Brisbane, Feb. 17. Mr Andr. Johnstone, one of the Railway Commissioners, has left for New Zealand to make inquiries into the method of the conveyance of frozen meat on the New Zealand railways. < Adelaide, Feb, 18. Mr Price Williams, of Wales, has approached the Government relative to the completion of a transcontinental railway with branches to New South Wales and Queensland. It is proposed to construct it on the pinciple of land grants. The syndicate which Mr Williams represents would be prepared to begin work as soon as the London money market is in a favourable condition to raise the necessary funds. The Government have promised to give the proposal careful consideration. Hobart, Feb, 18. Owing to the action pending by shareholders against the directors of the Bank of Van Dieraan’s Land, charging the latter with issuing a false and fraudulent balance-sheet, application has been made to restrain the Royal Commission already appointed from investigating the affairs of the bank. The decision of the Court was reserved. Sydney, Feb. 18. The party which has been formed under the name of the Retrenchment Party made an assault on the Estimates last night, with a view of cutting them down, but were defeated by large majorities on every point. A terrible explosion of a blasting compound known as rackarock is reported from Broken Hill. A man named George was killed and four others horribly mutilated. One of them, who had the whole of the lower portion of his body blown, away, still lives. A serious subsidence occurred in the Proprietary Block M mine at Broken Hill, the triraline having fallen 8 feet for a distance of 100 feet. The Proprietary authorities say that it will not affect their property, as the portion where the subsidence took place is worked out. It is expected that the creep will continue for several days.