TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2341, 9 April 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 6. Mr W. J. Beadel, M.P. for Chelmsford, and the Earl of Leitrim, are dead. A Bill has been introduced in the House of Commons to abolish the dual voting and reduce the election expenses of candidates standing for seats in the House. The Whitechapel Fine Art Exhibition was formally opened by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Exhibition will remain open on Sundays. The Admiralty has abandoned the claim that the colonies should pay half the expenses of naval officers returning on furlough. Dr. Asher, of Melbourne, has read a paper on “ Inebriety ” before the London Medical Society, in the course of which he announced the discovery of pathological changes in the blood, and alteration in the appearances of the red and white corpuscles, denoting degeneration. He advocated as a remedy the use of marganate of iron and gold. He intends to interview Koch and Pasteur with regard to the discovery. Mr J. A. Froude, the well known historian, succeeds the late Professor Freeman at Oxford. The marriage of Sir Edward W. Watkin, the well-known railway magnate, and Mrs Herbert Ingram, an old lady of eighty, was celebrated to-day. The bride, who has control over a fortune of £300,000, has made over three-fourths of her property to Sir Edward, the remaining fourth having been settled on her children some time ago. Mrs Ingram’s sons have commenced proceedings against the proprietor of the Pall Mail Gazette for publishing incorrect details regarding a discussion which was said to have taken place in the Ingram family over the marriage. England and France have renewed the modus vivcudi in connection with the Newfoundland fisheries for the present season.

An explosion of gun-cotton at Petersburg, in Northamptonshire, caused the collapse of a warehouse five miles away. It is reported that the Chinese Minister to the United States has threatened retaliation for the anti-Chinese Bill. P Aius, April 5. The latest intelligence received from the scene of the trouble with the natives in Dahomey is to the effect that 600 Dahomeyans are camped near Portonovo, and it is expected they will make an attack on the French camp. The Dahomeyans have sworn to extirpate the French. April 7. French troops will avenge the recent raid by the King of Dahomey, but they will not proceed to Abomey, the capital. The King of Dahomey has burnt Retome. It is reported that the French expedition up the Niger under the leadership of M. Menard has been massacred. Brussels, April 5. Two hundred dynamite cartridges have beeen stolen at Liege. April 6. The Belgain mission in China is claiming £30,000 from the Chinese Government for the recent outrages. Vienna, April 7. The Austrian Government have prohibited the meeting of delegates from several Social, Democratic, and Labour organisations. St. Petersburg, April 5. Five tons of guncotton accidentally exploded. The remains of nine men were hurled 300 hundred yards. Soita, April 5. It is reported that Merdjar, the supposed assassin of Dr. Vulkovitch, has been arrested in Constantinople through the treachery of an accomplice. Athens, April 5.

The country is being visited by a plague of mice. The Government hope to Introduce typhus bacillus among the vermin as a means of exterminating them. Cairo, April 7. The Khedive declines to allow the Sultan of Turkey’s Firman to bo read in public until he has been informed of the contents, as he has reason to believe that the Porte defines the Egyptian frontier in such a way as to exclude the Sinai Peninsula. In view of the stand taken by the Khedive, it is expected that the Sultan will allow him to peruse the Firman before it is read to the public. Ottawa, April 5. The Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island has passed a Bill abolishing the Legislative Council, and constituting an Assembly of thirty members, half of whom are 1 to be elected under the principle of universal suffrage, and half under a property franchise. April 7. The Newfoundland Parliament Ijas refused to renew the modus vivcndi with Canada, pending the sanction of the Imperial Parliament to the formation of a commercial convention witli the United States of America. Mr German, one of the Liberal members in the Dqmimo.u Parliament, has been expelled, and precluded from re-entering the House for seven years. The offence of which he was found guilty was that of bribing an elector to vote for him by promising to secure him il billet. New Yore, April 6, A terrible blizzard has swept several of the States, and caused the death of many persons. In Kansas the blizzard was exceptionally severe, and the damage fy the stock and crops is enormous, A despatch from YoneaueU states that the rebels have captured the barque Simoto, and that another attempt lias boon made to murder the President. San Francisco, April 7. Information has been received here of the outbreak of a revolt in Hawaii.

When the vessel which brought. the news left Honolulu, it was expected that the palace would have to be fortified. Mr Willcox is the head of the rebel movement.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, April 6. Great destruction has been caused to the maize crops in the Northern river districts. Melbourne, April 6. Warnock, one of the men injured by the explosion at the Australian Explosive Company’s works, is dead. Parliament has dissolved. Brisbane, April G. A scene occurred in the lobby of the House of Assembly last night, when Mr North knocked another member, Mr Hoolan, down, in consequence of a disput e which arose during a debate on the Polynesian Labor Bill. LABOUR. London, April 5. Domestic servants in Hartlepool are taking steps to form a Union. They demand that their hours of labor shall be shortened and that they shall receive a half-holiday every week. The promoters of the Union organised a procession, which marched through the principal streets of the town. A feature of the demonstration was the display of a number of banners emblematic of the calling. Owners of pottery works in Staffordshire have given notice of their intention to lock out 15,000 of their employees. April 6. Strikers at Castle Eden village, ten miles south of Durham, wrecked the house of a colliery official by means of an explosive. Mr Dalziel, M.P. for Kirkaldy has tabled a motion for the creation of a labor department. The Durham owners have issued a manifesto, in which they state that it is impossible for them to re-employ all the men who went out on strike, as they cannot hold out any hope of a complete revival in trade. The employees of Stalybridgo oil mills have offered to forego the claim they made in reference to an increase of wages on condition that they are allowed to resume work, but the owners decline to discharge the non-Unionists they have taken j on. The Directors of the Cambrian Railway have been summoned to the Bar of the House of Commons to explain the reason for the dismissal of one of their employees after he had given evidence before a Committee set up to consider the condition of railway servants. The Lancashire and Cheshire coal pit owners have refused to consider the proposition that men should only work five days in the week. April 7. It requires £20,000 a week to maintain the Durham miners who are on strike, but up to the present less than half that amount has been subscribed.

The Coal-miners’ Congress will meet in London in June. The proceedings will be watched with more than ordinary interest by the public, inasmuch as the gathering has been convened in order to thoroughly discuss a proposal for a universal strike of miners, as a means of compelling owners to recognise the eight hours principle. The owners of seventeen cotton-mills have given notice to the operators that they intend to close the mills. Wellington, April 7. The Wellington Knights of Labour have decided not to patronise the tramcars until the dispute is settled. Mr Hall has resumed the ten minutes’ service daring the busiest hours of the day. A FUNNY GAME, A few friends met the other night in a Newtown store to spend a jovial evening, but as they were all teetotallers and none of them drank anything stronger than Clements Tonic, drunkeness was out of the question. Mac proposed a game at euchre, and Jones said they had better play for something just to give the game an iutesest and make it lively, but times were hard, so they did not care to play for money. Smith, however, spied a box of Fletcher’s bilious and pvei- pills, and proposed that each time a man was beaten he sixould take a pill, and this made the game lively, and the fun was fast and furious. Simpson swallowed five, Jones got away with four and Smith and Hopkins two each., and Mac got off scot free. The game terminated by a general axojus at 3 a.m., for Dr Fletcher’s pills never labour in vain. They are the best and mildest pills made, and are sold by all chemists and druggists everywhere; being a positive, safe, and reliable cure for constipation, liver complaint, headache, &c. They always give satisfaction. The proprietors give away £SO (in seven prizes) at Xmas. For the svoii first nearest guesses sent in as how many 0 f these pills a large Clements Tonic bottle (now full) holds,’ A guess form is around every box. and all such forms are eligible for this competition that come from around a box. One box of Fletcher’s pills proves their virtues, and they can be obtained everywhere at Is, or post free, 12 penny stamps, frqm E. MJ. Clements, Newtown,KS,W.