TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2336, 29 March 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH , AND FOREIGN. London, March 2-1. Lord Rosebery, addressing a meeting at the City Library Club, Walbrook, declared that England’s foreign policy had become a colonial policy, and she was much more dictated toby the extremities of the Empire than from London. Australia and Canada, as the colonial Empire, had governed the Foreign Office completely in the new direction, and the AgentsGeneral of the colonies now visited the Colonial Office in the character of Ambassadors. - Miss Williams* '<‘.whose honour was impunged by Earl Russell in the divorce suit brought by his wife, intends to sue him for alleged slanderous statements. Mr Goschen has promised that the royalties charged in the United Kingdom on gold-mining shall be revised. Meanwhile an arrangement had been come to between Mr Morgan Pritchard and the Treasury, which will permit him to resume work at his Welsh farm.

A rumour, which has been prevalent for some time, is confirmed, that St Edward Watkin, the well-known railway magnate, is about to marry Mrs Herbert Ingram an old woman of 80, who has control over a fortune of £300,000. The Ingram family are vehemently opposing the marriage, and Sir Edward Watkin threatens libel actions for the comments of the press upon his action. The appeal case Attorney-General of New Zealand v. Edwards, is now being argued before the Privy Council. A European syndicate has made proposals to the Sultan of Turkey to complete the railway from Scutari, opposite Constantinople to Bagdad on the Tigris. The cost is estimated at £12,000,000, and the syndicate seek to obtain interest by drawing gigantic lotteries. The northern sealing fleet has returned with the phenomenal take of 200,000 seals. March 25. Rioting has taken place at Hepburn, in Durhamshire. The policemen who were escorting residents to their dwellings were compelled on one occasion to fire upon the crowd. March 26. The Parnell-Wood will case, in which Lieutenant-General Sir E. Wood and other members of his family opposed the will of Mrs Wood, widow of Alderman Wood, of London, under which the bulk of her property was left to Mrs O’Shea (Mrs' Parnell) has been satisfactorily arranged. The last will has been proved and also compromised. The costs amount to £II,OOO. Mrs Parnell surrends £60,000 to Sir Eveyln Wood’s family. The Times says that the surplus shown by Mr Goschen will be smaller than was expected, and it is unlikely to allow of much reduction in taxation. The action brought by Miss Daisy Hopkins, claiming damages for wrongful imprisonment against the Proctor of Gains College, Cambridge, was continued to-day, when evidence damaging to the character of plaintiff was adduced. A verdict was returned for defendant. Paris, March 25. A band of anarchist poisoners have been seized in Paris. March 20. Three of a batch of anarchist prisoners arrested yesterday, .are charged with conspiring to poison wholesale the members of one of the principal clubs in Paris. A cypher letter found in the possession of the accused disclosed the plot. Berlin, March 24. Count de Ulenburg has accepted the premiership of Prussia. March 20.

The leaders of the riots here have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from two to four years. Rome, March 25. Fifty-two' anarchists, who took part in the last May Day riots, have been sentenced to terras of imprisonment varying from 25 days to 32 months. St. Petersburg, March 22. Four hundred thousand Russian Jews are trying to leave Russia. Germany has closed its frontier to them, and shot several who attempted to cross. A German spy balloon service, which has been operating on the frontier, has been fired at by the Russian with cannon, but without effect. The Russian Government have decided to send four additional ironclads to the North Pacific. Washington, March 25. The Silver Bill introduced into Congress by Senator Bland I;as been placed among the ordinary Bills on the casting vote of the Speaker. New York, March 24. News from Central America reports a serious railway accident at Sopsouate, San Salyador. A traip capsized, and thirteen persons were killed, and thirtyone woppded., Ottawa _ M, Raiu’ier htn*•*» March 24. leadf^" 1 -- consented to retain the ....,np of the Opposition, and will agitate for reciprocity with the United States. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, March 25. The Metropolitan Board of Works loan was subscribed locally more than twice over. The whole of the tenders were above par. Brisbane. March 26. Several cases of cannibalism have been 4 reported among the blacks in Cairns district, about 900 miles west of here. Five boys were recently killed and eaten.