TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2364, 2 June 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, May 30. The Hull of the steamer Port Douglas, wrecked on a reef at St. Vincent, was insured for £55,000 and her refrigerating machinery also for £55,000. The line on the cargo amounts to be about £120,000 all in London offices. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Kaikoura will convey the ill-fated vessel’s passengers to Hobart, from whence they will be transhipped to Melbourne. Rear-Admiral R. C. Mayne, M.P. for Pembroke and Haverford West, died suddenly on Saturday from a fit of apoplexy with which he was seized shortly after leaving the Mansion House banquet given in honour of the Queen’s Birthday.

Mr M. Davitt in a letter to the Chronicle urges that Home Rule would protect the Irish industries. The Belfast Telegraph publishes Ulster’s plan of resistence to a Dublin Parliament. All Judicial and magisterial appointments are to be ignored, and only the Queen’s taxes are to be paid. Special police are to be enrolled, the customhouses in Belfast, Londonderry, Lome, and Newry are to be seized, and the people, while refraining from aggression, are to make steady preparations for war. May 31. The Earl of Aberdeeen and the Earl of Dysart and others have written a letter to the Times, urging help for General Booth’s colonial scheme. Paris, May 30. The result of the race for the French Derby was as follows : —-Chene Royal 1; Fra Angelica 2 ; Bucentanre 3.

M. Ribot, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the instance of the French missionaries in Uganda, in Central Africa, urges the Premier of England to enquire into the conduct of Captain Lugard in that country. Baron Hirsch is seriously ill, suffering from influenza and congestion of the lungs. The Catholic Vicar in the Uganda country reports that the Protestants were the aggressors in the fight' which took place towards the end of April, and that they were assisted to a large extent by Captain Lugard, with men and munitions of war. He also asserts that the mission has been ruined. • -atAUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, May 30. The steamer Warora, _ > frpm Calcutta, has arrived here with a serious case of smallpox on board. The health officers ordered the vessel into close quarantine. News has been received from the Solomon Islands that a trader named Frank Hyburg, at St. Anna, was attacked by natives during a quarrel among themselves, and speared to death. They afterwards fired and looted the store. May 31.

A fire broke out on the premises of Messrs James Service and Company, general merchants, of Collins street. The top floor was gutted, and the rest of the building was damaged, principally by water. The total damage is estimated at £55,000. The firm are insured for £50,000, including the National and Phoenix offices £3OOO each, New Zealand £2OOO, South British £ISOO. Melbourne, May 30.

A heavy thunderstorm broke over the city yesterday. The electric light wire at the corner of Russell and Lonsdale Street was broken. A man named Andrews who seized the wire was knocked down, another named Herbert Wells, in attempting to assist Andrews caught him by the wrist and was struck dead. Andrews escaped with a severe burning. The force of the electric current was 2000 volts. The Government have decided not to grant a Select Commiittee to enquire into the circumstances connected with the suspension of,the Railway Commissioners, but are willing, however, that the Commissioners may be heard frem the Bar of the House. May 31. An urgent appeal is being made to the public to relieve the distress in this city. In the Legislative Assembly to-morrow the Premier will make a statement relative to the amount of poverty existing in the city and suburbs. H.M.S. Archer, which has just arrived from tho Islands, reports that two Belgians belonging to a trading schooner at Poi mutinied, shot the captain and the super-cargo, and poisoned the other members of the crew. They then seized the vessel and altered her name. At Panapo a half-caste gave information to the Government, the schooner was seized and the Belgians arrested at the point of the bayonet after a violent resistance. They were imprisoned, and eventually sent away heavily chained in a Spanish man-of-var to Manilla for trial. Briibanb, May 30.

The cook of the schooner Kitty Belle was committed for trial for the murder and mutilation of the cabin boy at Thursday Island.