TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2325, 3 March 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, Feb. 28,

General Booth, in an article in the Contemporary Review, condemns the meagre attention bestowed in England on social questions. He praises the English qualities of the people in the colonies, but says that the Governments are' afraid to really govern. The amount of gambling carried on is really terrible. He advocates the compulsory transfer of population from the cities of the country. He says that the Darling Downs district alone would be capable of supporting the whole of the submerged tenth of England. Lord Rosebery, supporting Lord Carrington’s candidature for the London County Council, said that democratic colonies were the best schools for young statesmen. Baron de Worms’ statement, respecting the appointment of Lord Glasgow to succeed Lord Onslow, was made in reply to a question by Mr Henniker Heaton. He denied that the New Zealand Government had protested against not being informed of the appointment. A crowded meeting was held yesterday, Mr Leonard Courtney, M.P., presiding, at which a resolution was passed in favour of women’s suffrage.

It is stated that the committee of Judges are unanimously in favour of establishing a permanent Court of Appeal for the purpose of revising all sentences. Feb. 29.

Lord Carrington, in the course of an interview, spoke in terms of high praise of the Melbourne markets and tramways. The latter he considered the finest in the world. Eight hours’ work per day was a necessity in a climate like that of A ustralia, and also increased the efficiency of the work done.

Obituary—Miss A. J. Clough, of Newnham Girls College, Cambridge. Mr Dillon, replying to the IrishAmericans, states that ■ personal bitterness prevents the re-union of the Irish factions. He declares that the division of parties is destroying the agrarian movement. Sir Henry Bessemer, writing to the Times, recommends aluminium coin as a substitute for notes. This, he says, would render forgery impossible. March,!.

Robbers stripped the Galway armoury of the weapons belonging to the Naval Reserve. Paris, Feb. 28. M. Louhett, a member of the French Senate, has succeeded in forming a new Ministry. M. Louhett is a moderate Radical, and the policy of his Government will be to resist clerical aggression and maintain a foreign policy. Feb. 29. The Journal Constitutional states that the party known as the Right or Opposition, representing at least two distinct parties, the Monarchists and Bonapartists, have formally accepted the Republic. March. 1, A dynamite bomb was exploded at the residence of the Princess Sagan, in Paris, but no harim was done. Lisbon, Feb. 28. A terrible tempest swept over Oporto to-day. Many boats foundered and 200 fisherman are reported drowned. Feb. 29. Gales on the Portuguese coast have caused terrible damage. Sofia, Feb, 29. The assassination of the Bulgarian agent at Constantinople has aroused an intense anti-Russian feeling in Sofia. Vienna Feb. 28. , The distress among the poor is increasing. Over 50,000 people are said to be in a starving condition. The guards on the Austrian frontier near Haqdqnfie?i, fired on tfireg Jiqgsian spies, who wepe wounded but managed to escape. A band of lynchers in Bukowia, a province of Austria, poured petrolera over and set fire to a widow, who, was suspected qf having poisoned her bnsbapd, Constantinople, Feb. 28.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of having been concerned in the murder of M. Vullovitch, the Bulgarian agent. Calcutta, Feb. 27.

General Roberts, Commander-in-Chief in India, recommends a large extension of irrigation works and railways in Upper Burmah.

Hong Kong, Feb. 29. A renewal of the disturbances in China is feared in the spring. The British residents in Hankow have petitioned Lord Salisbury to request the Chinese Government to suppress literature inciting natives to commit outrages on Europeans.

Twenty , thousand rebels in the mountains in North China will make a raid on the low country in the spring. Feb. 27. China is making large purchases of Krupp field-guns and howitzers. St. Petersburg, March 1. A plot b as been discovered to murder the Czar at the funeral of the funeral of the Grand-duke Constantine. Two military officers committed suicide. Many students were arrested at Pavloski. Capetown. Feb. 28. The Government of Natal intend to dispatch Sir J. Robertson and Mr Sutton to London to induce Lord Knutsford to accept the amended constitution. New York. 'Feb. 29. A Chicago goldbeater has been fined £2OO for breach of the Alien Labor Contract law in having engaged two Australian workmen from abroad. A despatch from Havana states that the chess contest between Mr Steinitz, of New York, and M. Tschisgorin, the Russian champion, resulted in a vie- V tory for the former by ten games to eight* Five games were drawn.