TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2372, 21 June 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

London, June 16. Lord Hannen, one of the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, has been appointed British arbitrator in the Behring Sea dispute. Over one thousand Fellows have been elected to the Imperial Institute. At Ascot to-day the race for the Gold Cup resulted as follows : —Buccaneer 1 ; Ermak 2,

The statement that the Pope had instructed Archbishop Vaughan not to interfere in political matters is denied. Earl Spencier sells Althorpe library, owing to the depression in agriculture. June 18. At the inquest on the bodies of the victims of the Bishopsgate tunnel accident, the jury censured two of the signal-men. Dr William Maunsel Collins, formerly attacked to the Horse Guards, has been committed for trial on a charge of forging a promissory note for £ISOO. Prince George of Wales has been sworn as Duke of York. Paris, June 16. France has notified the Powers that she intends blockading the Dahomey coast. Berlin, June 18. Germany has arranged to build a strategic railway from Carlsrue into Lorraine. Rome, June 18. The King and Queen of Italy, accompanied by a brilliant suite, have started for Berlin, on a visit to the Emperor and Empress of Germany. Many festivities hare been arranged during the stay of the Royal personages. New York, June 16.

A bridge in course of construction over the lacking, in Kentucky, collapsed and five of the workmen were drowned. A tornado visited South Minnesota, destroying houses, schools, and farm buildings. Forty persons were killed. Similar disasters, attended with serious loss of life, are reported from the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Four Italians have been lynched at Seattle, a post village, the capital of King Country, Washington, on the eastern, shore of Puget Sound, for murdering an American fireman.

Further intelligence from Venezuela states that the rebels continue in their success against the Government troops, and that they are advancing on Bolivar, on tho Carribbean Sea. President Palaccio has resigned. Rio de Janeiro, June 16. It is officially announced that the revolt in Mattagreso is suppressed. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, June 17. Lord Aucran (eldest sou of the Marquis of Lothian,) A.D.C. to the Earl of Jersey, while out on a shooting expedition at Bombaldi in company with Captain Leigh was accidentally shot. The horse which Lord Ancram was riding became restive, causing the gun to explode, and the full charge entered the rider’s body death being instantaneous.

A fire broke out in the Theatre Royal at 4.30 this morning. It originated in the upper circle, and tor a time it looked as if tho whole block was doomed, but the brigade succeeded in confining the flames to the upper part of the building. The stage and dressing rooms, being cut off from the rest of the theatre, were not damaged, but the remainder of the building is gutted, The insurances amount to £13,000, and the damage is estimated at £ISOO to £2OOO. The Katoomba and Saone have returned to Noumea after destroying several villages in the New Hebrides, in revenge for Lawes’s murder. A landing party found that the natives had fled to the interior, but a further attempt will be made to secure the murderers. June 17.

The continued depressed state of the Newcastle coal trade is causing anxiety, and there is evidence, from whatever cause, that the foreign trade is unpleasantly diminishing. Melbourne, June 16.

A peculiar case has been brought to light here. A Mrs Parkes was awaiting trial on a charge of perjury, when she was bailed out without the knowledge of her solicitor. She turned up at Albury, accompanied by a well-known solicitor and another gentleman. She declares that she was drugged and taken to Albury against her will. She has mysteriously disappeared, and her solicitor, who has returned from Albury, denies any knowledge of her whereabouts, June 18. Government have decided to reduce the strength of the militia by 1000 men, and thus save £20,000 per year. The solicitor who accompanied Mrs Parker explains that they were proceeding to Sydney to collect evidence on behalf of the accused, but the latter obanged her mind at Albury. Brisbane, June 18.

Captain Curran and five men, comprising the crew of the three-masted schooner Waiareka, of Auckland, have arrived at Maryborough in a decked boat, after being nine days at sea. The schooner was wrecked at Long Island, about 400 miles from the Chesterfield Group ; she was unloading machinery at the island when the cable parted in a gale on the 2“th of May, and she struck a reef at midnight and sank. Only her bowsprit remained above water, and to this the men clung till daylight, when Captain Blundell, resident on the island, gallantly went to the rescue of the illfated crew, who reached the shore with difficulty. The shipwrecked men procured a cutter and sailed for Queensland, where they arrived in good health. The inen lost everything in tho wreck.

Adelaide, June 18. The Premier has resigned, and Mr F. W. Holden, who moved the amendment, has been summoned to form a new Government. The Government were defeated on the no-confidence motion by 26 to 24. Perth, (W.A.) June 18. A horde of blacks attacked a camp of three men on the Leopold Ranges, and killed two of the men, Robert Allan and Thomas Henry. The former was a New Zealander.