TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2331, 17 March 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, March 14. William Taylor, of Patua, is dead. A quantity of dynamite has been discovered in Limerick, and one arrest has been made. President Cairns, Presbyterian, is dead. Clovis Bonaparte was acquitted of the charge of conspiring to defraud his wife of her jewels. Richard Frederick Cavendish, nephew of the Duke of Devonshire, was fined £2 for using obscene language at Cambridge University. Cool chambers have been constructed at Port Said on the Suez Canal, for an Australian' firm, who have arranged to land fruit and meat there every month from the Australian steamers. The experiment will begin in April. The weather this month is the coldest experienced in England for twenty-two years. Lord Glasgow’s visit to Nelson Bros.’ ‘ stores impressed him with a belief that a new epoch in the frozen meat trade had opened. Hastings, the fraudulent trustee, admitted having embezzled £6OOO. > The Orangemen of Belfast have expelled DeCobain, the ex-member of Parliament. March 15. It has transpired that legacies amounting to £750,000 are due to Queen Victoria and her daughters from the Guelph Fund, Contributions to the expense of the Irish elections are being freely collected in America. The Irish Nonconformists appeal to their brethren of England and Wales to defeat Mr Gladstone’s Home Rule proposals at the General Election. Paris, March 14. Houses of Anarchists in Paris have been searched, and two men who were made prisoners are supposed to be the authors of a recent theft of dynamite, which it is believed has been sent to Russia. Two officials of the French War Office have been arrested on a charge of being concerned in heavy frauds. Forty dynamite cartridges were found in the house of an Anarchist in Paris. Madrid, March 13. Twelve armed Anarchists partly destroyed a railway bridge at Almagro. Rome, March, 13. The unemployed difficulty in Italy is becoming acute. March 14. Five hundred members of Republican societies are holding a conference at Rome. They assert that the Government are incapable of solving the burning questions of the day. It is expected that their attitude will bring them into serious conflict with the Government.

Berlin, March 13. The Emperor has annulled the sequestration of property left by King George of Hanover. The Grand Duke of Hesse is dead. The Guelph fund, amounting to two million sterling, will be returned to the Duke of Cumberland upon his promising loyalty to the German Empire. Brussels, March 14. The Charleroi Colliery, in which the explosion took place, has caught fire, and the work of rescue has had to be abandoned. The number of deaths in connection with the disaster at the Charleroi mine is about 150. Flames are shooting out of the mouth ef the pit. The pit adjoining that in which the explosion took place is catching fire. The disaster is of a magnitude unexampled in Beigium. Constantinople, March 14. Two armed men have been captured in the palace. It is believed that they intended to murder the Sultan. St. Petersburg, March 13. There are now 13,000 troops in Russian Poland, March 14. A passenger was arrested on the Russian frontier, in whose possession was found some of the dynamite stolen in France. March 15. General Gourko has requested permission in the event of war to be allowed to expell all the citizens from Warssw except 50,000, but the Czar refused the request. Russia is building barracks on the German frontier, a step which has occasioned much uneasiness. Vienna, March 13. In the course of a lecture which he delievered in this city Mr Theodore Westmark accused Mr -Stanley of being responsible for the death of Lieutenant Licksich, who died in the Congo State. In consequence of this accusation the lieutenant’s parents are suing Mr Stanley for £4OOO. The sentence of deqtfi op tfie woman Rosalie Schneider, for coippiicity ip the ipprdor qf servapt girls, has been commuted tq imprisonment for life. Yokohama, March 14. Thirty Japanese newspapers inimical to the Government have been suppressed. Singapore, March 15. The rioters at Pahang have renewed hostilities, They seized the fort and captured aipong others Bibby, an Australian miner, but afterwards released him. 23ANJ5IBAR, March 14. Messrs King and Watson, of the African Lakes Company, were wounded in the attack on Port Johnston. Ten Sikhs were killed and a number wounded during the engagement. Buenos Ayres, March 14Disorders in the Argentine continue. Ottawa,’ March 14. It is reported in the city that the Canadian Government have decided to materially reduce the tariff on British imports.

The Free Press, a newspaper published in Ottawa, declares that the people of America will never sanction war with Great Britain on account of the Behring Sea squabble; on the other hand it believes that Lord Salisbury wouL sacrifice the interests of Canada rather than have serious trouble with the Cabinet of Washington. The Government have won fourteen seats since January. It is reported that the Canadian Government have cabled to Lord Salisbury, urging him to agree with the modus vivendi, fearing reprisals on the part of the United States. Washington, March 13. A report is current that the Marquis of Salisbury has agreed to renew the modus vivendi on condition that President Harrison undertakes to pay the amount of damage that may be hereafter awarded to the sealers. Valparaiso, March 13. The Chilian Goveenment has been re-formed under SenorMattei as Premier.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, March 15, During the debate on the railway estimates Mr W. F. Skey, member for Redfern, accussed the Railway Commissioners of favouring the Proudfoots in the matter of railway contracts. The Commissioners asked the Government to hold an inquiry, but the latter declined on the ground that they did not attach any importance to the charge. The Proudfoots have issued a writ against Mr Skey, claiming £IO,OOO damages, Mr Eddy, Chief Commissioners of Railways, has replied to the Government, insisting on an inquiry into the truth of the charges made by the member for Redfern. It is possible that the refusal of the Cabinet to accede to the request will cause the resignation of the Commissioners. In consequence of the reduction in the immigration vote the Premier has cabled to the Agent-General instructions to stop all emigration to the colony. Melbourne, March 15. The Cabinet have not suspended the Railway Commissioners, as threatened, but directed the Minister of Railways to proceed with his investigations. Adeliade, March 14, The Commission appointed to enquire into the causes and prevention of red rust in wheat have finished their work. They recommend the early sowing of wheat, harvesting rust-infested crops in an early stage, and growing of wheat after crops of different order, agreeably to the true principles of rotation. The Commission also proposed the establishment of central stations in each colony to test new wheats introduced into the country. Hobart, March 14. The match between Lord Sheffield’ team and Northern Tasmania was drawn in favor of the Englishmen.