TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2384, 19 July 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, July 14. A report has been received from Captains Lugard and Williams stating that the fighting in Uganda was due to Catholic aggression. The Independence Beige says that the English as a nation are careless of events in Central Africa, They are much more concerned over the poisoning of a Derby favourite. Lord Salisbury invites Mr Dibbs to ask the colonial Governments to institute the inspection of butter shipments in order to secure quality and regular supplies: also to try aud influence the shipping companies to reduce the freights:-fnr _Jbutter and fruit: Mr Dibbs stated that he-woulA-give his attention to the questions, but he could make no promises on behalf of the Australian Governments. Sir Charles Cox, formerly of the Colonial Office, and Chancellor of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, is dead. The Victoria Cross has been conferred on Captains Aylmcr and Lieutenants Boisrazen, Manders, and Smith, for gallantry in the Cashmere campaign last year. July 16. At the athletic sports held on Blackheath yesterday, P. Wood won the 100yds Handicap, with L. Cuff second. The aeronauts missing from the Havre balloon, which recently descended in England, were rescued in the English Channel by a sailing ship, and landed at Finnistere. In the Bankruptcy Court the discharge of Mr David Christie Murray, the novelist, has been, suspended, fqr two years, Mr Thomas Cooper, a prominent Chartist, is dead. Mr A. J. Balfour, speaking at Glasgow, said that he feared that a Gladstone Government would destroy the extension of the Empire in Africa, The outlook in Europe,. he thought, showed that great events were at hand, which were calculated to British interest* <il««.-*; ouslyj but if a feebly Grovemment were in office the Unionists would be sufficiently strong to prevent any serious evil resulting to the cause of the Union. Paris, July 1-1. Stephen, a Parisian cyclist, rode 460 miles in 14 hours 24 minutes. The Bill to prevent the decrease in the population of France abolishes the equal division of property on the death of parents, and taxes small families and bachelors. July 10. The anniversary of the destruction of the Bastille was observed to-day as a national fete with tremendous enthusiasm. Berne, July 10. Another serious accident is reported at the Alps glacier, near Chamounaix, which demolished the mill and killed fifteen people. It is impossible to identify a number of victims of the St. Gervais accident, owing to the mutilation of the bodies, in some instances heads and limbs being torn away, Washington, July 14. The Senate has decided not to open the Chicago Fair on Sundays, and the sale of liquors will be forbidden on week days. Calcutta, July 14. The whole of the frontier of Huzarras is in rebellion again. The rainfall in Madras has been heavy. New Yohk, July 10. Bobbers stopped a train at Adara. Missouri, and after shooting the police and the guards, opened the safe by means of dynamite. £BOOO were stolen. The Senate have quashed the Committee's decision prohibiting the sale of liquors in the Chicago Exhibition. Buenos Ayues, July 14. The Argentine torpedo catcher Rosailies has foundered off the coast of Uruguay. The crew were saved. »— AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, July 10. Mr Abigail, ex-Minister of Mines in the Parkes Ministry of 1887, has been arrested in connection with the alleged falisfication of the accounts of the Australian Banking Company. July 17. Three cases of smallpox are reported from Darlinghurst, all in close proximity. One sufferer is believed to be a passenger by the Oroya. Sixteen persons have been quarantined. Mklisouiixe, July 10. The Waterloo Cup was won by I-elgravia ; the runner up being Christopher North. The Purse by Catherine Hayes : runner up, llarkaway. The Plate by Trafalgar ; runner up, Fenton. July ]T. The Government have decided to recognise Beaming's will, and his estate is now being administered, His will contained several bequests to gaol officers, including a block of land to the governor of the gaol, also a piece of land to Mr Marshall Lyell who conducted his defence.