TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2365, 4 June 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

London, May 31. The British East African Company assort that it was the ‘.Catholics who displayed hostile attitude towards the Protestants in Uganda, and that the latter could not have been the aggressors owing to their minority in numbers. The Standard advises its readers not to aid General Booth’s scheme, which it characterises as a “ worthless piece of sensational bookinaking.” The remains of twenty-five bodies have been discovered underneath a carriage factory which has been erected in LongAcre for over a century. A few of the remains were confined, in coffins and it is rumoured that the spot was formerly the site of a nunnery. Queensland will send exhibits to the Royal Agricultural show at Warwick. The Hon. Sir Francis Henry Jeune succeeds the late Sir Charles P. Butt as President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Courts. Mr James Gorell Barnes, Q.C., succeeds Mr Justice Jeune. June 1. The prospectus of Pears’ Soap Company with a capital of £BIO,OOO, and a working capital of £15,000, has been issued. Mr Boucat, of Adelaide, responding to the toast of “The Visitors” at the banquet given by the Grand Mark Lodge of England, said that he preferred being the subject to the Grand Lodge of England, to being subject to a colonial lodge, The Hon. H. DeVere Vane has established his claim to succeed to the barony of Barnard, left vacant by the death of the Duke of Cleveland last year. The French officials at the Cape de Verde Islands have refused to assist in salvage work at the wreck of the Port Douglas, unless the ship is abandoned or their expenses paid. It is expected that this refusal will cause a total loss of either the ship or cargo. Mrs Osborne has been confined of a daughter. At Epsom to-day the Derby was decided as follows :—Lord Bradford’s Sir Hugo 1 ; Baron Hirsch’s La Fleche 2 ; Mr Blanc’s Bucentaur 3. Four dynamite bombs with fuzes attached have been found u.ider the Great Eastern Railway in London. The Liberal whips, in circulars to members of the party and their supporters, anticipate that the dissolution of Parliament will take place towards the end of June.

The aggregate tonnage of vessels passing through the Huez Canal in 1891 shows an increase of 1,500,000 tons over that for the previous year. Parts, May 30.

The French press are very indignant at the reported outrage on the French missionaries in Uganda. Both the Journal des Debats and the Figaro assert that Great Britain instigated the disturbance, June 1, The Minister of Foreign Afiairs declares that he will hold England responsible for the alleged cruelties to Catholics in Uganda. Berlin, May 30. The Socialists who attempted to rescue a convict in the streets to-day, were dispersed by the police with drawn swords. Several of the Socialists were wounded. The Russian Government are making strenuous efforts to restore amicable relations with Germany. Calcutta, May 30. In Cashmere, where cholera is prevalent, 2000 houses were destroyed by fire and 80,000 people left homeless. Cholera is raging at Trinagar, Cashmere, and 999 deaths were reported in four days. There are still 1700 cases under treatment. May 31. Two thousand four hundred deaths from cholera are reported at Seinar, in Cashmere. New York, May 31. In Arkansas Valley one hundred villages wore Hooded and 20,000 people reduced to destitution. Intelligence from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, states that the inaurgeuta have captured Tmiapas, u port ' j Carribean Be* aud Wo AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, June 1. The Royal Commission appointed to enquire into the alleged defective working of the Baldwin engines and their nnsuitability for the permanenfway of New South Wales railways lias closed its sittings. Mr F. E. Rodgers, Q.C., the President of the Commission, while admitting that Mr Hoyle, M.P., who had asked for the Commission had acted in a, straightforward manner, characterised the persecution to which Mr Eddy, Chief Railway Commission e i ’i ha-d been subjected to since his arrival in the colony as the most disgraceful ho had over hoard of. Mr Eddy declined to answer questions put to him by dismissed employees, whom, ho asserted were acting in collussion— sornehy getting into Parliament—:to express a p diey of revenge > lie said much loss had been occasioned the colony through taking up the time of the Commissioners m defending charges which had been levelled against them. June 31. Intelligence has been received that Bell and Davies, the levanters, who were supposed to have left Honolulu for Hong Kong, sold their yacht Beagle at Callao in April. Boh wo ibo Royal Commission appointed to enquire into the charges made by Mr Hehey, M.P., against Mr Eddy the Chief Commissioner of Railways and his administration, Mr Schoy to-day alleged that he had been refused access to

a mnnber of papers, and he practically declined to go on with the charges. Mr Justice Owen, the President, intimated that he would not allow Mr Schey to thus burk the Commission, and if he did not proceed with the charges he would himself be called on as a witness. Meliioukne, June % A motion was carried in the Legislative Council to consider the petition of the Railway Commissioners, by 2G to 2, the latter being Ministers. Adelaide. June 2. Reports from the Murchison diggings state that there is a terrible amount of sickness on the held, and that men are dying on the roads. Bri.sisank, June 1. A French meat preserving company ,in Comen, New Caledonia, is importing a large quantity of cattle from Queensland. The company lias received large contracts for tinned moat for the French Army, and there is not sufficient cattle in New Caledonia to keep pace with the demand.

IMPERIAL POLITICS. London, June 1. Lord George Hamilton, First Lord of the Admiralty, replying to a question in the House of Commons to-day, asked by Sir J. C. R. Colomb, M.F. for Borough and Bromley (Tower Hamlets), stated that an experimental transport of troops had been made across the Canadian Pacific Railway on two occasions, and had been a decided success, as far as rapid travelling was concerned, but as regards cost the line was not able to compare with that via Panama.

In the House of Commons the Irish Free Education Bill has passed its second reading. The'Houso of Commons by a majority of 14 declined to adjourn to enable members to witness the running of the Derby. Mr Gladstone, addressing the London Liberal Union, advocated the abolition of the plural vote, unification of the Metropolis, extended powers of County Councils including control of the police, also that ground landlords should be forced to boar a share of taxation. He expressed his willingness to receive a deputation on the Eight Hours Question, and thought that they ought not to harshly judge the promoters of even impacticablo schemes. He was of opinion that municipal bodies ought to mitigate the hours of labor. Ho termed the Marquis of Salisbury a political incendiary and said the few fools ond rogues in Ulster who would resist the establishment of an Irish Parliament would be easily suppressed.

THE MAURITIUS STORM. Adelaide. June 2. News from Mauritiqs states that the barque G. M. Tucker, known in the New Zealand trade, is among the vessels ashore. The brig Rio Logo was also damaged in the gale. Many heartrending scenes occurred. After the disaster carts wore engaged everywhere removing the dead. At Martinique the gale was the most terrible within the memory of man. At one sugar house sixty bodies were dug out. The Legislative Council took immediate steps to raise £OO,OOO for tfie relief of the sufferers, Port Louis, June 1. The deaths will possibly exceed 2000.