TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2353, 7 May 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, May 3. The London County Council is discussing a motion by Mr John Burns that contractors should be compelled to pay trade union wages and observe their hours. Sir Samuel Griffith has withdrawn the language complained of by the Bank of England, and the latter has resumed its relations with Queensland. May 4. A cable message has been received in London, saying that Mr Bibbs represents Victoria and South Australia, as well as New South Wales, and probably other colonies, on matters of great Australian interest. This intimation has caused some surprise in the city, and the AgentsGeneral are perplexed to know what it means. The athletic team have arrived. Bishops Barry, Selwyn, and Codrington have published letters in the Guardian on the subject of coloured labour in Queensland. Bishop Barry, although, confident that Sir Samuel Griffith will do 1 his best to remedy abuses, has grave fears tJiat he will not succeed. Bishop Selwyn describes the Queensland traffic in temperate language, and considers it an abuse of words to call such a system slavery or inhuman. Serious abuses exist, but they are capable of removal, and he believes that the traffic may be made to benefit both the Islands and Queensland. Bishop Codrington is of opinion that no kind treatment by the Queensland plantation owners can compensate the wrong done to the Islanders. Mr William Grey, a relative of Sir George Grey, has been successful in establishing his claim to the Earldom of Stamford. May 5. Mr Saveli Kent, at a conversazione of the Royal Society, exhibited a splendid pearl produced by an artificial process. Mr J. Morley ridicules “ labour quackeries.” Paris, May 5. The Archbishop of Paris has conveyed a message of consolation from His Holiness the Pope to M. Very, who was seriously hurt in the explosion at his restaurant. Berlin, May 3. The German Minister of War has resigned. St. Petersburg, May 5. Ten Jewesses on trial at Vilna for infanticide (65 infants) have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, from six years to twenty years. Zanzibar, May 3. Information is received from Captain Lugard declaring himself to be in extreme danger at Uganda. May 4. Emin Pasha is suffering from smallpox. Ottawa, May 4. Twenty thousand women have signed a petition to the Canadian Parliament asking for the suffrage. Washington, May 4. Another body of a woman, mutilated in the same way as “ Jack the Ripper’s” victims, has been found in Chicago. This is the second within a short time. Congress has re-enacted the Chinese Taxation Bill, adding enforced registration and a penalty, for unlawfully entering the States, of a year in prison, at the end of which time the detenues are t to be sent back to China. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, May 4. The Captain of thes.s. Bellinger, which collided with and sank the barque Presto, has had his certificate suspended for six months. The schooner Julius has foundered near Clyde Bank Cape and one sailor was drowned. Melbourne, May 5. From appearances there will bo a deficit of a £1,500,000 in the revenue receipts. New taxation is inevitable, and the form it will take is already foreshadowed. £75,900 will be raised by means of 2d a gallon on beer, 2s additional on spirits, 2d on tea, and the restoration of 2d inland postage, and a stock tax. It is also proposed to levy an income and an absentee tax. £30,000 will probably be saved in the Public Service, and railway reductions will provide £320,000. Among the Bills promised are Village Settlement, Shops and Factories, and Education Act Amendment.