TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2346, 21 April 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 18. There is at the present time much dissension between the Irish parties. The Rev. Henry Allon, Congregational Minister, is dead. The Hon. A. J. Balfour has been received in Ireland as the friend and saviour of the peasantry. Mr Healey and Mr O’Brien are afraid to appear on the platform unless Mr Balfour’s friends are there to protect them. Disastrous snowstorms are being experienced in England. The Paris correspondent of the Times telegraphs that the English and French Governments have arrived at a mutual agreement on all colonial questions. It is reported that the anti-Parnellites are boycotting the friends of the late Mr Parnell. A severe snowstorm crippled the Easter volunteer manoeuvres at Chatham and Dover. Many of the corps taking part in the sham fight were up to their knees in snow. One hundred thousand were at Hampstead, whore the crowds rushed the railway station, fearing that a storm was setting in. In descending the stairs one or tw o women fell, causing an accident which resulted in two women and six boys being killed and thirteen injured. By an explosion in a powder mill in New Jersey ten persons were killed. Parts, April 18. It is reported that the French Government will send nine warships to the coast of Dahomey. It is also reported that the Government are determined to destroy the Dahomeyans, and capture Abomey, the capital, where it is believed twenty millions sterling have been concealed in treasure pits by deceased kings. Madrid, April 18. Alsind, the soldier who committed the outrage in a church, has been arrested. Berlin, April 18. Intelligence has been received of the seizure of several German Catholic missionaries by the Kirg of Dahomey. April 19. The German banks ofler to issue a Russian loan of £1,000,000 conditionally on the Russian Government concluding a commercial treaty with Germany. St. Petersburg, April 17. Prince Djoiwitch, a Russian noble, attacked his cousin, Alexander Schpikuloff, and severely wounded him on the head with a hatchet. He afterwards committed suicide to avoid arrest. Constantinople, April 17.

A Bulgarian student from Odessa, named Kusheleff, was arrested in Constantinople by a dragoman attacked to the Russian Embassy, and had to appeal to the Turkish police before he could procure his release. The Bulgarian Government are indignant at the arbitrary action of Russian officials. Athens, April 18. Dr Toffier has inoculated mice with mouse typhus, and it is hoped this will exterminate the pest, which has caused great destruction throughout the country. Calcutta, April 18. In the recent encounter between the British and Dacoits the former had six men wounded and the latter nine killed. The head of Stewart, one of the officers of the Pahang Exporting Company, who was killed by the rebels, has been found, but the body is missing. No trace can bo found of the body of Harris, the other victim. Ottawa, April 18. Alexander Mackenzie is dead. He for some years edited the Lambton Shield, and Reform journals in the Dominion. He was a Member of the Executive Council, and Treasurer of Ontario in Mr Blake’s Administration. The railways in Ottawa have been running at a loss for some time past, and in consequence of this many employes are being dismissed, while a reduction is also being made in the mileage run. New York, April 18.

A thousand of the cattle in Omaha have organised a conflict with the cowboys, and it is expected that a serious disturbance will ensue. The Foreign Committee objects to the indemnity paid to the Italian Government regarding the lynching of the Sicilians in°New Orleans without the authority of Congress. Mr Edison claims to have invented a flying machine, and an electric motor by which rain can be produced by means of dynamite, Traders assert that the then King of Dahomey, two centuries ago, buried treasure in Portonovo, and say that this explains the French anxiety to capture the count y. Several cargoes of natives have been conveyed from the Gilbert Islands to Guatemala, and it is believed that they are slaves, 4 despatch from Caracas states that the rebels seized the railway line owned by a n English company, and it is expected that British _ warships will be ordered to protest against this action. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydmey, April 19. The influenza has reappeared hm'p, and numerous cases are reported-.