TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2332, 19 March 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, March 15. Lord Hampden, ex-speaker of the House of Commons, is dead. Signor Alberto Rundeggerhas obtained a divorce from his wife. Hayden Coffin, the well-known singer, was co-respondent. The Times is publishing a series of articles, giving forecasts of the General Election, based upon the results of the county elections. It gives the Tories 254 ; Unionists, 54; Liberals, 200 ; Irish, 82; doubtful, 92. March 17. General Booth intends to make a tour of the Continent in connection with his scheme for the rescue of the submerged tenth. The tour will be- carried out on similar lines to the one which he recently made in Australia and New Zealand. Lord Rosebery has been formally elected Chairman of the London County Couneil. Mrs Osborne, who was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for perjury ' in the celebrated pearl case, is suffering from epileptic hysteria in Holloway Gaol. A relative, who had left her £40,000 in his will, is reported to have revoked the bequest. Mr Perceval has applied to the Admiralty to furnish a man-of-war to convey Lord Glasgow from Sydney to New Zealand. Mr Justice Chitty has ordered the English trustees in Mackellar's estate to pay the New Zealand trustees £37,000 to establish an Art Museum in New Zealand. Paris, March 15. The Anarchists have dynamited the Lohn barracks in Paris, inflicting much damage. President Carnot proposes to add a clause to the Penal Code making wilful destruction of property by the use of explosives punishable by death. A Bill embodying this proposal will be introduced into the Chamber of Deputies at once. March 16. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of two hundred Anarchists in Paris. M. Loubet, the Premier, has promised the Chamber that severe measures should be taken to repress the Anarchists. A penal clause proposed by President Carnot was referred to a Special Commiftee. In consequence of the threats of the Anarchists, the number of sentries guarding the public buildings in the eity has been doubled. Madrid, March 15. Queen Christina has given 100,000 pesetas and the Spanish Government 400,000 in aid of the sufferers by the floods. Berlin, March 15. A bomb loaded with bullets was exploded in a thorougfare in Loban, a town in West Prussia, but fortunately it did not have the desired effect, and no one was killed. Brussels, March 16. Several thousands of pounds have been subscribed in Belgium for the sufferers by the Charleroi colliery disaster. The death is announced of Dr W: Smith, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Edinburgh. March 17. Three Belgain Anarchists have been sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment for stealing 72,000 dynamite cartridges. Constantinople, March 16. The Russian Embassy is reported to have shipped the instigator of Vulcovitch's murder to Odessa. St. March 19. The steamer Indiana, with a cargo of flour from the United States, for the relief of the peasants in the faminestricken districts, has arrived at Liban, a seaport on the Baltic. The Czar has expressed his firm intention of avoiding war. Hong Kong, March 15. At the general election in Japan, the Government secured a majority of seats. The contests were carried out with great warmth, and serious riots were of frequent occurrence, resulting in 30 persons being killed and 120 wounded. Washington, March 16. ; Diplomatic relations between Italy and the United States has been renewed. The United States Government have agreed to vote a sum of money to the families of the Sicilians who were lynched at New Orleans. Rio Janeiro, March 17, The Ruapehu left yesterday for Plymouth. Her frozen meat was reported to be in good order. Ottawa, March 16. - The Canadian Government have agreed to extend the modus vivetidi to the Atlantic fisheries. Reprisals on account of the Behrlng Sea dispute are looked upon with disfavour generally. _ -» —■ AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, March 16. The Divorce Extension Bill has passed the Lgislative Council. The Bishop of Goulbourn is dead. Melbourne, March 17. The return match between the Victorian eleven and the Englishmen coin-, menced to-day. The former w-ent to th,e wicket first and were all disposed of for 137, McLeod 33, and Bruce 54 being the highest scorers. At the close of the day's play Lord Sheffield's team had lost 2 wiokets for 72 runs. Mr Larkin, formerly secretary to the South Melbourne Building Society, who was accused of defrauding the society, is missing, and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. Hobart, March 17. The Postal Conference has. begun. 'M'rBird, General of Tasmania, presided, and he regretted the absence of New Zealand representatives.