TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2357, 17 May 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, May 12. The Hou. Patrick Greville Nugent was convicted on the charge of assaulting Miss Price in a first-class carriage on the , London and Brighton line, and sentenced to six months’ hard labour. May 13. The Trust Agency of Australasia has withdrawn £140,000 invested in New Zealand, owing to the threat to increase the income tax. May 14. The income of the London Missionary Society has increased during the past year by £35,000. Mr Gibson Millar, of Melbourne, has written to the Royal Yacht Club, offering to give annually a prize of 50 guineas to be competed for by yachts forming the Royal Yacht Squadron. In announcing the offer to members of the club, the Prince of Wales said it had given the committee much pleasure to accept the prize, and he suggested that the trophy should be named the Australian Cup. It is reported that a conspiracy to poison enormously insured horses by means of strychine has been unearthed, and that one arrest has been made in connection with it. The London correspondent of the New York World has been mulctei in £IOOO damages for alleging that Mrs Geraldine Ulmau would shortly be divorced. Probate has been granted of the will of Mr Alexander Allen, ship-owner, for £500,000. Glasgow charities receive bequests amounting to £40,000 under it. Paris, May 11. Owing to a dispute in a baccarat club in the city, jl French Baron grossly insulted ex-King Milan of Servia, who sent a challenge to the Baron. He declined to meet the ex-King, and apologised. Berlin, May 14.

Dr Geddes, of the University of Halle, a town of Prussian Saxony, on the Saale, claims to have discovered the bacillus of epilepsy. Berne, May 14.

Five Americans tourists have recovered heavy damages from the Canton of Berne for false imprisonment on a charge of being spies. Ottawa, May 13. The Canadian Government are asking Great Britain to permit it to be more fully represented at Washington than elsewhere. Washington, May 14. President Harrison has appointed Justice Harling and Senator Morgan to represent the United States on the Behring Sea fishery arbitration. Buenos Ayres, May 11. A skating rink in this city collapsed and thirty persons killed. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, May 13. Mr D. Gillies has been elected leader of the Opposition. Sydney, May 14. Mr Clark, a well-known sharebroker, has been arrested on a charge of conspiring with Taylor (who is at present undergoing a term of imprisonment) to defraud the Land Credit Bank of £37,000. Brisbane, May 15. Mr Playford, Premier of South Australia, who is on a visit here, in the course of an interview stated that a hundred Indian families would be immediately settled in the Northern Territory as a primary venture. He asserted that the Kanakas in Queensland will be virtually slaves.