TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2345, 19 April 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 15. An agitation has been got up for the release of Mrs Montagu on the same ground as Mrs Osborne. Lord Glasgow has consented to travel from Australia to New Zealand in the Hinemoa. Prybnrgh House has been burned to the ground. April 17. Mr David Gray, of Peterhead, has equipped an antarctic expedition to test the value of the whale fishing, and will sail in August next. A son of Baron Nordenskjold will accompany the expedition in the interests orHcience. ■ A Salvation Army, marriage bureau has been established, and the promoters expect that fully one thousand applications n ill be dealt with every month. Lord Carrington in the course of an address, said that it was worth a journey to Australia to note the absence of class hatreds and religious prejudice. The ship Theophane, Captain Nelson, which left Newcastle for Mallenno, South America, in December last, is believed to have been lost at sea with all hands, owing to the spontaneous combustion of the cargo. Miss Amelia Blandford-Edwards, novelist, is dead.

Paris, April 14. The natives repulsed the French expedition at Samedu in West Africa, capturing four officers and eighty-one native privates. April 15. Intelligence to hand from Dahomey is to the effect that the King has seized 20 Europeans, whom he holds as hostages and declares that they will be sacrificed in the event of French attacks. The Minister of War threatens to impose the severest penalties on priests teaching politics from the pulpit. Madrid, April 17. Alsind, a soldier who enlisted in a regiment in Anglesoa, hid in the pulpit while the service was being conducted on Good Friday, and being armed with a sword and revolver rushed on the priest who was officiating. The latter was kneeling in prayer at the time, and was terribly gashed about the head and hands. Alsind also used his revolver freely, and a female member of the congregation was shot dead and others wounded. The perpetrator of the outrage cut his way through the crowd and succeeded in effecting his escape. Rome, April 15. The Premier, the Marquis Rudini, has resigned in consequences of dissensions in the Cabinet regarding the finances, some of the ministers being opposed to fresh taxation. The Marquis has been ordered to re-construct the ministry. April 16.

Since the United States paid the indemnity for the lynching of the Sicilians in New Orleans, friendly relations have been resumed. Berlin, April 15. Dr Canton, of Berlin, has discovered the bacillus of measles. Brussels, April 15. Belgium has increased the import duty on manufactured woollens. St. Petersburg, April 14. The condition of M. DeGiers, Foreign Minister, is worse, and causes great anxiety to his friends. It is reported that several Russian Generals have been ordered to the German frontier. Constantinople, April 16. A Bulgarian Note to the Porte bitterly demands the extradition of Spishmanoff and the two Teketchrefis, murderers of Dr Vulkovitch, Bulgarian minister here, and whom it is alleged are being sheltered by the Russians. The Note, which also demands recognition of Prince Ferdinand’s claim to the throne, reveals a close connection to the murder with the agents of the Russian Government. Cairo, April 14. The Sultan’s Firman has been formally read and the young Khedive invested with great eclat. Calcutta, April 16. Sharp hghing has taken place in Burmah, the Lushais being repulsed at all points with 60 killed and wounded. The Lushais defended their positions against several attacks of the British with heavy loss.

Singapore, April 15. The murderers of Harris and Stewart, Australian miners at Pahang, have been arrested. Candahab, April IG. The Ameer has defeated the tribes of Kaferistan and secured the Dora Pass, which is one of two connecting the Pamir plateau with India. Washington, April 14. Two hundred and fifty lives were lost by tho floods in Tennessee. April 15. It is reported that diplomatic relations between Chili and the United States suspended indefinitely. Hew York, April 15. The President of the Chicago Exhibition estimates that it will cost the United States £4,500,000. It is rumoured that Mr Dillon is about to retire from politics because of Mr Timothy Healey’s intrigues to secure control of tho United Ireland journal, of which Mr Dillon was recently appointed chairman of directors. De E orest, an actor, on being refused admittance to a theatre in tho city, assaulted Mr Hutchison, husband of Miss Lydia Thompson, the well-known burlesque actress. Mr Hutchison is in a critical condition. The cavalry have succeeded in taking into custody the disputants who had been fighting oyer the stocjv- raising rights in the State of Wyoming,

Over 150 bodies of those drowned during the floods in Tennessee have been recovered. Hundreds of people who had sought refuge in trees and on house-tops were rescued after suffering from 4 to 6 days’ hardships. April 16. The difficulty with Spain regarding the Caroline Islands has been satisfactorily ' settled by the Spanish Government agreeing to allow missionaries to return to the islands. A report is current in Washington that the Chinese Minister has notified the Secretary of State that, in the event of the Anti-Chinese Bill becoming law, all Americans will probably be expelled from China. Caraccas, April 14. The rebellion has been suppressed. Rio de Janeiro, April 14. The siege in the city has been raised. The action of the State of Matta Grosso in declaring independence is ridiculed, the State being too poor to fight in order to secure separation. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, April 15. The branch of the Irish National League has declined to accede to the request of Mr Dillon to invite Mr Davitt to make a tour of the colonies in the interest of the evicted tenants until the breach in the Irish party is healed. Two brothers named Adolphus and Joseph Dixon quarrelled and came to blows. The former armed himself with an axe, and the latter with a bayonet which he drove into his brother’s brain through his eye, killing him instantly. Melbourne, April 15. Mr Wilson, the Government expert, who has returned from New Zealand, reports that Victoria is much behind New Zealand in cheese-making, but well up in butter-making. Brisbane, April 16. The Legislative Council have passed the Polynesian Labor Bill. So far £375,000 worth of treasury bills have been taken up in the colony.