TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2347, 23 April 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 20. The Hon. Patrick Greville Nugent has appeared before a magistrate charged with a serious outrage on Miss Marion Price in a first class carriage on the London-Brighton line. Bail was allowed. The pamphlet published by Mr Gladstone does not favor the grantiug of suffrage to women at present, and he declares that the question is one requiring further discussion. It is denied that Great Britain and France have come to any general agreement on the colonial question. Negotiations were merely confined to the prevention of traffic in arms with the natives of Africa. Paris, AprillO.' The French troops have defeated with great loss the native troops in the {Senegal. April 21. The King of Dahomey has warned the French that he will destroy Porto Novo and all the French settlements in the event of war. Rome, April 20. The Marquis Rudini has succeeded in forming a new cabinet, and he announces that its policy will be army retrenchment. Berlin, April 21. Jaeger, an employe in Messrs Rothschild's Bank at Frankfort, has absconded with 2,000,000 marks of the firm's money which he embezzled. The local press declares that the statesmen of Europe shudder at the weapons employed by Russia in Bulgaria. Constantinople, April 20. The Sultan is reported to be much irritated at the British triumph regarding his Firman recognising the new Khedive of Egypt, and he has invited Ismail Pasha, the ex-Khedive, to dine with him. The Turkish police have detained the young Bulgarian student Kuskelerf, who was seized by a Russian dragoman last week, on the pretext that they wished to examine him in connection with the murder of Vulcovitch. Kukhtar Pasha has been prohibited by the Sultan from interfering in internal affairs in Egypt. OOHENHAGEN, April 11. The elections have resulted in a decisive defeat of the Radicals. Lisbon, April 20. A madman armed with a revolver today managed to gain an audience with Senhor Calvalho, and demanded £IOO. The latter paid a portion of the amount and promised the remainder, but in the meantime the perpetrator of the outrage was taken into custody. Teheran, April 19. Russia has offered the Shah of Persia £500,000 to pay off the holders of the British tobacco monopoly, receiving the customs revenue by way of security. It is supposed that Russia by this plan hopes to destroy British influence in Persia. Zanzibar, April 20. The natives of the Uganda are fighting with those converted to the Catholic religion. Captain Lugard suppressed the outbreak, and King Mwanga has been deposed. The Catholic natives of Uganda, headed by Mwanga, killed some of the foremost of the Protestants. Captain Lugard interposed, and the bishop and clergy, with a number of followers, escaped to an island. The Protestants returned the attack, and a bloody fight ensued. Captain Lugard, who rescued several of the priests and bishops, ha 3 nominated a successor to the deposed King Mwarga. Ottawa, April 19. Robert McGreevy has surrendered himself to the Dominion Government. April 21. The Hons. H. Mercier and G. Langleir ex-members of the Executive Council of Quebec, and M. Pacaud, Financial Secretary of the first named, have been summoned to appear on a charge of conspiring to defraud the Government of the Dominion. During the March quarter 7000 settlers were placed on the land in North-west Canada. Washington, April 20. The Senate have ratified the renewal of the. Behring Sea modus viveudi, but not without several members protesting. It is reported that the United States have argreed to purchase Hayti. A severe earthquake was felt in California, and many buildings were damaged. York, April 19. D, Balch Peraza, the Venezuela Minister at Washington, alleges that there is a plot in New York to aid the rebels in Venezuela. The Houce has passed the vote for the proposed increases in the navy. The Norway Steel Company, of B.oston, has closed down owing to the'taxation of materials. ' San Francisco, April 21. The earthquake was the worst ever experienced in Sacramento Valley, and hundreds of houses were burned owing; to the capsizing of the stoves. The loss' is estimated, at 1,000,000 dollars, Sydney, April 20. The influenza epidemic so far is not of a serious nature. April 21. The Hon. G. R. Dibbs, the Premier, leaves for England at the end of the month, and during his absence the Minister of Education will act as chief of the Government. Melbourne, April 21. The following were returned : —Colonel Smith, Mr A. Deakin, Mr A. 11. Outtvin, Mr C. Gillies, Sir Graham Lorry, Mr T. Bent, Mr J. G. Duffy, Sir Bryan O'Loghlen, Mr R. Burrows, Sir Matthew , Davies, Mr J. B. Patterson, Mr W.

Shiels. Dr Rose was defeated. Fifty of the candidates raturned are in favor of the one-man-one-vote principle, and fortyfive are opposed to it. The Labor party secured 11 seats, five of whom held seats in the last Parliament. Ministers claim G 4 supporters. Port Darwin, April 21. The heaviest earthquake ever experienced here was felt yesterday. The shock lasted three minutes.