TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2337, 31 March 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, March 27. Baron Hirsch spent £250,000 on the Jewish colony which he formed in the Argentine Republic. The natives were unfriendly to the settlers. The Freeman's Journal has absorbed the National Press, on terms extremely advantageous to the proprietors of the latter paper. Mr Dillon is appointed 'chairman of the new company. i Under the settlement arrived at the Wood family receive £142,000 and Mrs Parnell retains £70,000. She .has agreed to divide her life interest with Captain lO'Shea and afterwards with the children of her first husband. March 28. Mr Matthews, the Home Secretary, declines to reduce Mrs Osborne's sentence. Mrs Hargreave's jewels, in connection with which Mrs Osborne was sent to gaol, have been sold by auction, and realised £llOO. The eldest son of the Duke of Edinburgh is lying ill at Darmstadt, and the Duchess and her daughters are hastening to his bedside. March 2g. Lieutenant Clayton, of the Scots Guards, has been appointed aid-de-camp to Lord Glasgow. Paris, March 27. The bomb factory recently unearthed has its headquarters at Kavachal. The chief of the conspiracy has not been arrested. The house of the barrister who prosecuted the Anarchists has been wrecked by an explosion of dynamite and seven persons injured. The President is taking steps to make anyone depositing explosives in a public street guilty of a capital offence. M. Rochefort, who is at present living in London, has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment. The Premier, M. Lobet, referring to a sermon on socialism which was the cause of a riot last week, said the Government would not permit the pulpit to b<a turned into a political tribune. They would rather close the churches. Orders had been given to expel Forbes, the Scotch Jesuit, for delivering a sermon insulting the Army. The leader of the Catholic party replied that the Church would accept the Republic, but not revolutionary doctrines. The Premier on a division was sustained by a majority of 238. Foreign Anarchists are being expelled from France. March 28. The outrage perpetrated on the barrister who prosecuted the Anarchists was carried out in such a manner that the dynamite was placed on the landing, and when it exploded i 1; destroyed the stairs and shut out the retreat of the occupants. Every effort was made from outside to rescue the inmates, and ultimately all were got out alive by means of a fire escape, with one exception. The concussion smashed the windows in the vicinity. Up to the present no arrests have been made in connection with the outrage. March 29. Owing to the alarm occasioned by the outrages of the Anarchists, 30 per cent of the foreigners in Paris are leaving. Proposals are before the Chamber of Deputies to make the State responsible for damage committed by Anarchists. Concierges (door porters) are advised to keep the doors closed as a preventative to Anarchist outrage. The police are watching the house of magistrates. Members of the Socalist Church visited another church in Paris yesterday, where the preacher in the course of his sermon made a statement that the Roman Catholic religion alone would be the salvation of the working classes. The Socialists protested, got up a fight in the nave of the church, danced, and sang the Carmagnole, a famous ditty of the revolution. Several of those present were iujured. Lisbon, March 27. News is received from the East Coast of Africa that a party of Portuguese travellers defeated a band of slave hunting Arabs near Lake Tanganyika, and liberated fifteen hundred slaves. Madrid, March 27. Seven steamers, including two warships have been burned at Barcelona owing to petroleum catching fire. Berlin, March 27. The German Catholic press are taunting the Government with the fact that no crisis used to happen under tfye Bismarck, regime. The Reichstag has voted £IOO,OOO for the representation of Germany at Chicago. The Federal Council of Germany has recommended the qonstruction of strategic railways at a qost qf £§QO,QQQ, Rome, March 28. It is proposed to build a church in this city, at the side of St. Peter's, at a cost of £4,000,000. St. Petersburg, March 27. Terrible distress is prevalent at Kherton. Rothschilds state that the relief funds subscribed in England have been the means of preventing enormous mortality. '''•''■ Marph'29'.' Two Russians living at Bielqstqck have been charged with the murder of forty emigrants, from whom thoy obtained money under the pretence of smuggling them across the frontier. Hong Kong, M»-. cn 27 Chan Han, the '»aTiaarin alleged to be \ responsible for the circulation of antiforeign literature at Hunan ? has been arrested. Nbw Yqrk, March 27. Walt Whitman, the American poet, is dead. Washington, March 28. Chinese are obtaining British naturalisation papers in Canada, and then

crossing into the United States. Under the circumstances the American Government are unable to prevent this. Thousands of negroes are emigrating from Tennessee to Oklahoma on account of the lynchings that have been so frequent recently. A crucible of molten steel capsized in a Pittsburg foundry. Four mem were killed and five horribly injured. San Fbancisco, March 28. Advices received here from China state that in a recent engagement 8000 Mongolian rebels were killed, besides 500 being burned alive. The rebels captured 1300 of the Imperial troops, of whom they killed 800 and burned the remainder. Buenos Ayb.es, March 27. The Liberals of the Argentine have refused to agree to reciprocity with the United States. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Adeliade, March 28. The English eleven defeated the Australians by 1 innings and 230 runs. Sydney, March 29. The Sydney Morning Herald, referring to Sir John Lubbock's remark with regard to the claims of the New Plymouth Harbor Board bondholders, says that to charge any Government by implication and Colonial Governments generally, with dishonour in connection with the nonpayment of interest is about as reasonable as to hold Governments responsible for mortgages on private property. The charge, the Herald says, is entirely untenable. Parliament will probably conclude at the end of the week. The proposal to have a short session later on, to discuss one or two important subjects, has been abandoned, and Parliament will resume in August, when it is expected that the Electoral Bill will be immediately introduced. Melbourne, March 29. The associated banks have entered into an agreement to mutually assist each other. , This step has been decided on in order to stay anxiety and strengthen the confidence of customers. Brisbane, March 29. Parliament was opened to-day. In the Speech from the Throne the necessity was shown for immediately removing the restrictions respecting the employment of coloured labor. Authority was asked for the construction of railways on the landgrant system. It was explained that the adoption of the system was necessary because the condition of the money market precluded obtaining a loan. A hope was expressed that time would admit of a discussion on the Federal Biil. A measure would be introduced to give effect to the proposal for the establishment of provinces.