TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2363, 31 May 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, May 26. Sir Charles Butt, President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Courts, is dead. The provincial Tories are pressing Ministers to pass the Irish Local Government Bill. The Cabinet are undecided on the matter, a section of the members preferring to appeal to the country under the eclat of Tuesday’s division on the BiH. The Marquis of Salisbury had a marvellous escape from serious injury to-day. He was driving in Piccadily when his carriage was capsized and smashed up. The coachman-was injured, but the Premier escaped unhurt. The premises of Mappiu & Webb, manufacturers of electro and silver plate, Oxford street, were entered by burglars last night and 3000ozs of silver plate were stolen.

The Earl of Dysart has gone over to the Liberal party.

The sum of £9OOO has been subscribed to defray the expenses of an immense conference to be held shortly in Belfast to protest against the people of Ulster being placed under the control of an Irish Parliament in the event of Home Rule being granted to Ireland. Lord Knutsford has invited the AgentsGeneral to the dinner given in honour of the Queen’s Birthday, which is being celebrated on the 28th inst.

At a meeting of the Protestant Alliance the Dean of Anchovry, a parish of Ireland, County Sligo, declared that Romanism was the cause of the trouble in Ireland, and expressed the opinion that a civil war would certainly follow the granting of autonomy. It was decided to agitate against Home Rule during the elections. May 27.

The steamer Port Douglas was wrecked on St. Vincent during the night of Tuesday last, and it is alleged that the reef on which she struck is not marked on the charts. The passengers, though they reached shore safely, lost all their belongings and have nothing except what they stand in. The British Consul is absent from the island, but the French are succouring the ill-fated people, and will continue to do so until a rescue steamer arrives. The steamer herself is a hopleless wreck, and should tine weather continue the crew will bo engaged in dismantling her. The steamer and her cargo were valued at over £IOO,OOO, It is expected here that Newfoundland and Canada will federate.

Two express trains came into collision near Birmingham. Both trains were much damaged, and one was only saved from toppling over a viaduct by the smart action of the vacuum brake. Two persons were killed. The Catholic press is discussing the possibility of canonising the late Cardinal Manning. Application is to be made on behalf of Mrs Montagu for a remittance of the sentence passed on her for cruelly illtreating her children. The grounds are the same as those lodged on behalf of Mrs Osborne.

The Times, referring to the colonies, asserts that the Legislative Chambers do not respect the Government and are losing the country’s confidence. It further considers that a state of anarchy is^_ approaching. May 28. The New Zealand and Australian Steamship Company have launched the steamers Warrimo and Wallsend, which will be engaged in the Australian and New Zealand trade. Their speed is guaranteed at 1G knots, and the vessels will carry 313 passengers, in addition to having capacity for a cargo of 5000 tons. A woman named Beatrice Cooper has been sentenced to a week’s imprisonment in the Spinning House by the Cambridge University authorities. The sentence has been severely handled by outsiders, and the authorities were hissed.

Prince Ferdinand, who was reported to have been dethroned during a revolt in Bulgaria, is still at the head of affairs in that country, Signor Suooi, the Italian who on more than one occasion successfuly carried out his fasting schemes, has become insane. Paris, May 20. The King of Dahomey is attacking Grand Porto. May 28.

The explosion of bombs in some of tl\e principal styegta in tl,e neighbourhood of the principal buildings, continues to be reported, and although considerable damage is occasioned, no lives have been lost. Constantinople, May 2'7Tile Porte’s proposal to construct a railway between Sofia and Salonica lias met with great enthusiasm in Bulgaria, as a step likely to counteract a Russian invasion, Copenhagen, May 29. The celebration of the golden wedding of the King of Denmark passed off with great edai. At the banquet the Czar proposed the health of the King and Queen. The Prince of Wales was present, but did not attend the public functions. Cairo, May 28.

Further details have been received concerning the raid made by the Dervishes on Suadda, near 'Wady Haifa. After they obtained command of the town by an attacking party many inhabitants were subjected to terrible cruelties, a number of women and children being hacked to pieces. Zanzibar, May 27.

A German Judge in German East African territory lias sentenced slaves to be hanged, Ottawa, May 2G.

All on board tho Government steamer Quadra, which was lost off Vancouver

Island, were saved. New York, May 2G,

The State of Kentucky has passed an Act to the effect that every train must have separate carriages for negroes.

The negroes, who are incensed at the lynching of some of their race lately, are on the rampage in Tennessee, and an •armed mob are marauding the district. William Astor left £15,000,000 to his famly, and bequeathed several thousands to charities. At a wedding in Yaletta, Texas, a newly-married couple were tin-kittled, and the bridegroom was so incensed at this that he fired on the mob, killing two dead. The mob returned the fire with a volley, and instantly shot the bridal couple. May 27. The Government have agreed to submit to arbitration Messrs Witham and Webster’s claim for alleged illegal seizure of a British sealer in Behring Strait. The officers of the Irish League in America have been invited to visit the loaders of the two parties in England to discuss the proposed re-union of parties. Washington, May 2G. The House of Representatives have ordered that only the exhibits of the American Government be closed on Sundays at the Chicago Exhibition, and have refused to prohibit the sale of liquor at the Exhibition. Buenos Ayres, May 2G. The Argentine Congress has been opened. The President in his address said that the finanial situation was improving, and that they were turning 1,000,000 dollars monthly.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE,

Sydney, May 29

Good rain has fallen all through the country, and at Broken Hill the dams are full, thus allaying all danger of a water famine.

At the Cycling Carnival on the Cricket Association’s ground yesterday, the fivemile international championship was won by T. Warwick (England), with L. B. Sharp (Victoria) second, and W. S. McCoombe (Victoria), third. It was an excellent race, won by 4 yards. Time, 15min. 20sec. Melbourne, May 28. John Cahill, cashier of Taylor’s Land Credit Bank, has been found drowned in the Yarra. An information for complicity in the frauds had been sworn against him and he is believed to have committed suicide. Brisbane, May 29. The eight-oared intercolonial race was rowed here yesterday, and resulted in a victory for the Victorian crew, after a splendid race, by half a length. New South Wales was second, and Queensland a bad third. Time 16min ssec.