TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2323, 25 February 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Feb. 20. The Aorangi is loading for Auckland and southern ports. Feb. 21. Commenting on Sir Samuel Griffiths' manifesto with regard to the Queensland sugar trade the National Observer says that Sir Samuel's change of views on the subject of black labour has taken place at an [opportune time. The paper characterises the Queensland workman as horribly selfish, insincere and brutal. Her Majesty the Queen has awarded the second class Albert Medal to Hennessey, the coxswain of the Sandgate lifeboat which rescued several of the sailors of the ship Benvenue when she stranded off Sandgate in November last. The presentation was made by the Queen at Osborne.

The number of wills proved during the financial year is unprecedented. The influenza epidemic is responsible for the great increase.

Mr Wise told the Pall Mall Gazette interviewer that the concession of Home Rule to Ireland would be a message of peace to the whole English-speaking world, and declared that it was now impossible for an open opponent of Irish Home Rule to be elected for a seat in the New South Wales Parliament. He referred in eulogistic terms to the Australian cablegrams which appeared in the London Times, and expressed the opinion that a further reduction in the cable rates would have the effect of promoting the union of the Empire. Feb. 22. The committee of the Wesleyan Conference recommended that power be obtained to extend the term of ministerial residence in each circuit beyond three years. The Tory party have £20,000 in hand with which to conduct the London County Council elections. The Liberals are responding to the exertions of the other party. The Pall Mall Gazette publishes an interview with Mr Wise, formerly Attorney-General for New South Wales. That gentleman gives it as his opinion that the Labour movement in the colonies is the safety valve for the dangerous element and therefore really a source of security. He considers that the Protectionist movement in his own country is due to an accidental majority and the treachery of certain members.

Severe gales have been raging in the Channel during the last few days, and many wrecks, attended with loss of life, have occurred. The Rev. Cheok Hong Kong, of Victoria, who has been conducting a crusade in Great Britain against the opium traffic, has been very successful.

The ship Fratell sank off Penzance during a gale, and it is supposed that all hands were lost. One body has been washed ashore.

Members of the Cons-i;' e o- a tional Church throughout England are holding a week of self-denial, hoping by this means to obtain sufficient funds to maintain an additional hundred missionaries. Summonses have been issued against Mr H. Bottomley, the secretary and Sir H. A. Isaacs, a director, of the Hansard Publishing Union, for defrauding the company of £30,000. Another director is to be included in the charge. Feb. 23. Mr Low, formerly Berlin correspondent of the Times, sued Mr Walter, the manager, for £IOOO for breach of contract. A verdict was given for defendant. Mr Jackson's Education Bill prohibits the employment of children under eleven years of age, and under eleven years of age. and between the ages of eleven and fourteen unless they have attained a certain degree of proficiency at school. It also abolishes fees where they do not exceed 6s per annum. The Government are confident that they will carry their principal measures. Paris. Feb. 21. Mr Deacon who shot the young French attache at Nice is well-known in Parisian and American society. The intrigue between his wife and the attache is supposed to have been going on for two years. Mr Deacon was admitted to bail on easy terms. Feb. 22. The polictical crises is still unsettled. President Carnot is consulting with the leaders of the parties as to the probability of the Chamber being dissolved if M. Freycinet were declared Premier.

President Carnot has written to the Pope thanking him for his encyclical letter, and offering to lend his assistance to secure religious peace in France.

Feb. 23. Mrs Deacon denies thai she was guilty of improper conduct with the French attache whom her husband had shot dead, and is applying for a divorce. Berlin, Feb. 22.

Bishop Selwyn says that Sir Samuel Griffiths' reversal of policy is a startling move. He hopes that the Queensland Government will themselves undertake the work of recruiting, since the labour agents have always proved unable to stop abuses. The Bishop adds that the supply of coloured labour is limited, as when recruiting was carried on before very young boys were constantly taken against the wishes of their parents. Sofia, Feb, 23. ' Madame Kraveltoff and two other ladies were tried in this city for petitioning the foreign Consuls to hasten the trial of their respective husbands for the murder of MY Bettcheff, the late Minister of Finance, in March last. All the women were acquitted. St. Petersburg, Feb. 23. The Nihilists are fermenting agitation among the peasants. Cairo, Feb. 22. The Egyptian Government show a surplus of £1,300,000 derived from the conversion of debt. Calcutta, Feb. 21.

Five hundred Cochins attacked Sodon in Upper Burmah, but were repulsed with loss to the British troops of five killed and fourteen wounded. Sodon is now besieged. Ten Sepoys were killed on their way to the place. Feb. 22.

The rebels have surrounded Sodon. It is understood that the trouble is due to Chinese intrigues. Capetown, Feb. 19. The New Zealand Shipping Company's new steamer Ruahine sailed today for Melbourne and Sydney. Washington, Feb. 22. The United States Senate have reenforced the Anti-Chinese Act for a further period of ten years.

New York, Feb. 22,

A negro who outraged a woman in Arkansas was soaked in kerosene and burnt to death in the presence of six thousand people. The unhappy victim was compelled to apply the match himself. Feb. 23. A steamer with a cargo of provisions subscribed for by the citizens of Philadelphia for the starving peasants in Russia has sailed for a Russian port. A gang of robbers ransacked the train at Rochester and shot the conductor. They escaped by means of a spare engine, but some of the railway employees pursued them for some miles on another engine, and after shots had been exchanged effected the capture of ( the desperadoes. Buenos Ayres, Feb. 22. j

The elections in the Argent ; ; ne Republic are proceeding in a peaceful manner. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Feb. 22. Stanbury and Sullivan have signed articles, and the race will be rowed on May 2nd. The first innings of the New South Wales eleven closed for 244. The home team followed on with their second innings, and at the close of the day's play had lost four wickets for 55 runs. Feb. 23. The second innings of the New South Wales eleven closed for 210, leaving the visitors 40 to get to win. Lord Sheffield's team ran up the required number of runs at a cost of 3 wickets,winning the match by 7 wickets and 2 runs. The wife of the late Captain White, of the barquentine Lismore, which was run into by the A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Zarimbla off Richmond river in November last, has recovered £2500 damages for the loss of the vessel. The Custom Duties Bill passed its second reading in the Legislative Council by 26 to 17. Melbourne, Feb. 23. The Metropolitan Board of Works have authorised the issue of a half million loan for four years at 5 per cent.