TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2335, 26 March 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FQRE2GN. London, March 22. Strong efforts are being made to secure the release of Mrs Osborne, prior to her accouchement. The efforts of her friends are supported by raediga} testimony that the prisoner suffers from severe fits of hysteria. In the House of Commons Mr H. Watt, member for the Camlachie division of Glasgow, asked Lord Knutsford whether he would be favorable to a scheme for rendering South Austria, the outlet for the surplus of India. Baron d,e, said correspondency was passing between the Colonial Office and the South Australian Government with regard to the introduction of Coolies into that colony, hut no arrangement had yet keen, arrived at. March aa. The Tories have rallied in response to Mr Balfour's appeal. The Emperor of Germany is entering his yacht Meteor for the Queen's Cup at Cowes, and will sail her in person. The Berlin correspondent of the Standard says that Von Cajprivi wi\l retain his seat in, \]\& QaJtiv&i but ?$ s ># a . the Jpre.mietrs^ip,. Tfye oo.un.pil of %\y\ Dtjn + -* Registration l\ave a ddi>+ } -' -«** Partridge off &* «*1» ' "f* nam ed P.irtPidg« uuili.*-' - advertising £lO Off '. -«;«unea that he had spent ! ' J in legitimate advertising. He appealed, but the appeal was dismissed. The Master of the Rolls (Lord Esher) declared that his conduct was dishonest and monstrous. Justices Lopez and Fry concurred, characterising the appellant's proceedings as a flagrant breach of the conditions of his diploma. March 23. The Salvation Army has opened a matrimonial bureau,with Baker in charge. The evidence at the inquest on the body of Mr Arthur Goring Thomas, the

musical composer, showed that he was insane. Paris, March 22. President Carnot has sent a message of welcome to the Queen, who is on a visit to Hyeres Islands for the benefit of her 'health. March 24. A bomb and dynamite factory discovered in Paris is believed to be the source whence the perpetrators of the recent outrages of frequent occurrence 'procured their supplies. Five cases of dynamite have been stolen in Marseilles. The Anarchists are supposed to have a hand in it. Queen Victoria warmly thanked President Carnot for his message of welcome, and said ahe recognised the respect the French nation had shown her in her sorrow. Rome, March 23. It is stated that the Italian Government will dispense with 47,000 soldiers. Berlin, March 23. The Emperor is sffuering from great hoarseness and general langour. Prince Pismarck is improving. Athens, March 22.

A plot has been discovered among the military, having for its object the deposition of the King. A number of officers said to be implicated have been arrested. St. Petersburg, March 22. Three Bulgarians connected with the murder of M. Vulkovitch, the Bulgarian diplomatic agent in Constantinople, have been expelled from Odessa. March 23. It is feared that the failure of Gunsberg's Bank will have disastrous consequences to the Jews in Russia. March 24. The Official Messenge states that the peasantry are provided with food until May, and seed for spring sowing. £600,000 has been allotted for supplying cattle feed. Many of the Governors of Provinces ignore the existence of famine, and are exacting the entire taxes by means of merciless flogging of the peasants. Constantinople, March 23. The Russian Government are sending back the Bulgarians implicated in Vulkovitch's murder to Constantinople. The Sultan has expressed his regret to the Bulgarian Government that they were allowed to escape. Soeia, March 23. A Polish spy captured in Bulgaria has been sentenced to eight months' imprisonment and fined £6OO. Washington, March 23. A fire took place in the Capitol while Congress was sitting. Several documents of no great improtance were destroyed before it was put out. Calcutta, March 22. An extensive rising has broken out in the eastern mountain country, which is occupied by a savage tribe known as tho Lushias. The British troops are advancing to suppress it. The Lushias sharply attacked a small British expedition which were sent to punish rebels and arrest their chief, and for some time held them in a very dangerous position. A much larger force is preparing to march against the New York, March 22. The Chinese Minister is pressing President Harrison to allow Chinese immigrants to enter 1 the United States, Oltawa, Maroh 23. Mr Foster, Minister of Finance, presented a glowing budget to the Dominion Parliament. The surplus is £250,000, and the increase in the trade of the country amounts to £2,250,000. Mr Foster explained that Mr Blaine, Secretary of State for the United States, had demanded the adoption of. the American tariff, but on his admitting that he was aotuated by hostility to England negotiations for reciprocity ended abruptly. The Canadian Government were in favour of prefoi-Qntial treatment of British products, T/tw>, statement was received with, pranged cheering. £h,e Chinese are swaggiug in to the Pacific Coast from the United States. It is proposed to bring in a Bill to restrict them.

Victobu, (8.C.,) March 22. The Government have decided to harrow money for the purpose of subsidising the settlement of crofters in the colony. AUSTRALIAN CABLE, Sydney, March 28. The, Government have given way to the demands of the Railway Commissioners and granted them an enquiry into the, charges brought by Mr Schery. Melbourne, March 23. Mathias Larkin, late secretary to the South Melbourne Permanent Building Society, surrendered to his bail, and was tried on a charge of defrauding the society. March 24. Larkin was sentenced to six aj\cfc Cleary to four years hard labor, The Australian Deport and Mor*' « Bank has susp,en,dod; payment "■- . -£ a 8 Q heaw which is tho stoppage of" The secn r ''" t ' - tne Mercantile Bank. pjpP- - xcies of the Bank are not .^ged. Considerable reductions are being effected in the Railway and Public "Works Department. N» public works except those that are absolutely essential will be undertaken until the second batch of Treasury bills or a loan is floated. The Charity Organisation Society fears that the poor will suffer more severe hardships during the ensuing winter than have been experienced by that class of the community since the foundation of the colony. Brisbane. March 23. The Rev. Mr Paton, chairman of the Presbyterian New Hebrides Mission, has forwarded a strongly-worded protest to Sir Samual Griffith against the resuuption

of labor traffic. He pleads that the Queen, the British Government, and all Her Majesty's dominion's, should do everything possible to suppress forever the shocking traffic and the destruction of human life it entails. Hobart, March 23. The Launcsston exhibition is closed. New Zealand exhibitors obtained fourteen special mentions, twenty-two first prizes, six second prizes, and six commendeds. Adeijade, March 23. Owing to the necessity for retrenchment the Easter encampment is abandoned.