TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2387, 26 July 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London. July 21. In the Chancery Division to-day Justice the lion. Sir A. Ken wick made an order preventing the Trades Federation from boycotting non-union firms. In an interview with Lord Knutsford Mr Dibbs urged that British and French rights respecting the New Hebrides should be equalised. The Secretary of State for the Colonies replied that he was anxious to meet the views of the colonists in the matter. The World contains a flattering article on Mr Dibbs’ safeguards for the British connection during the settlement of the .question of federation.

Severe gales in the Channel have caused many shipwrecks. The Liverpool lifeboat, while engaged in the work of rescue, was upset, and three of the crew drowned. It is announced that Rear-Admiral Smith succeeds Admiral Lord Charles Scott on the Australian station. July 21. The following is the result of the Liverpool Cup : Nunthorpe 1 ; Windgall f ; Clarence |. Desperate fighting is reported from Morocco between the Hinana insurgents and the Sultan’s troops. The former burned three villages in the vicinity of Tangiers. Chief Commissioner Smith has arrived at Tangiers, where the Vizier of Morocco and a Minister from Fez are shortly expected in order to resume negotiations. Stirring details have been published of Mr Smith’s coolness and courage during his dispute with the Sultan. In accordance with the orders of the Sultan, the tribes accorded the British Commissioner special honour. The Times is not sanguine that the attractions of village settlement will over-weigh the influence of protection, the public works system, and the excitement of city life which draw rural labourers to the Australian cities.

Major Pollock, of the 3rd Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, won the Queen’s Prize at Bisley, with a score of 277. He also won the silver meda as the highest scorer in the stage. At Chelmsford athletic meeting Mr L. A. Cuif won the quarter mile hurdles, and the third prize in the 120yds hurdles.

General Booth states that he is waiting for a report from South Africa before deciding whether he will send “the submerged tenth’’ to New Zealand.

Cable intelligence from Batavia confirms the disaster at Sangier Island. The whole north-west portion of the island was entirely destroyed, and two thousand natives were killed. The friends of Mr Gladstone and his medical advisers are pressing him to accept a peerage. Paris, July 21. It is reported that a plot has been discovered in Paris to destroy the Bourse, the Palais de Bourbon, and Palais de Justice. Several arrests have been made. The French mission will leave for Morocco in September for the purpose of arranging a treaty with the Sultan on much the same lines that was recently suggested by the British representatives and rejected. The Journal des Debats declares that the reason of the British treaty failing was owing to the violent attitude dislayed by one of its commissioners, Sir Charles Ewan Smith.

Disputes are going on over the question of taxing bicycles. Rome, July 22.

The fact of Mount Vesuvius becoming active is attributed to the eruption of Mount Etna. Berlin, duly 2 3.

Dr. Koch intends visiting Russia for the purpose ©f obtaining cholera bacillus.

Vienna, July 22 Austria lias argreed to accept the gold standard. St. Petersburg, July 22. In consequence of the ravages of cholera the merchants ask that a ukase b,e issued suspending business in the districts most affected. Son a, July 21. Milaroff’s journal produced at the trial showed that he and his associates made a bomb with General Ignatieff’s knowledge, and that the Russian Legation furnished money to some ol the conspirators. Belgrade, July 21. It is reported that cholera ivas appeared at Yrquge. S&rvia, Washington. July 21. Mr Grover Cleveland, Democratic nominee for the Presidentship, considers that (lie United States tariff is unjustly building fortunes by VfJtbihg fanners and p>'qa;aa»»«- the oust of living to the artisan. This he declares to be unpatriotic.

The Committee of Congress reports that since the McKinley tariff eaipo into force articles of cuiua.mptkm in daily lift; have been sold over d per Copt, lower, while products have averaged IS per cent, higher, and wages are 77 per cent, above the British standard. Lightning killed < n , family of five at Ivichinaud, Kentucky, and fired a school in (ieoygia. killing two persons and injuring several others. Julv 22-. r |'he Senate have endorsed the Bill authorising retaliatory measures

against Canada in the matter of canal dues. Valparaiso, July 21. Influenza is making alarming ravages in Chili. New York, July 21. My Cleveland, addressing a meeting of dO,OOO Democrats in New York, made a strong freetrade speech claiming to expose the pretended solicitude for American interests. Toronto, July 20. Gaudaur and liosmer have challenged Ilanlan and O’Connor to a double sculling race, to be rowed in August.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Meehouiine, July 22. The Judge, addresssingthe jury in the action brought by Williams, the steward of the Iberia, aginst the Age, directed that a newspaper could not be held responsible for the hasty impressions which careless or unintelligent persons might gather from an article, but plaintiff must have the strongest grounds for bringing the action. Sydney, July 2J. The football match Queensland v. New South Wales resulted in a victory for the former by 12 points to nil. Newcastle. July 22. The barque Arethusa has arrived here. She brings the captain and his wife and the crew of the barque Africa which was wrecked off the Cape of Good Hope. The Africa sailed from New York with do,ooo cases of petroleum in May. She experienced a terrific gale on June ord. The hatches were washed off, and the vesssei soon became waterlogged. The crew suffered great privations for five days. One of the boats was successfully launched, but a heavy sea carried it against the wreck smashing it up. The occupants managed to regain the vessel and remained there until the Bth, when the Arethusa hove in sight, and, the lifeboat being launched, all hands were taken safely on board. The rail of the illfated vessel was level with the water when the crew abandoned her. The cargo at this time was washing out of her, and the wreckage is undoubtedly that reported by the steamer Murrumbidgee. BmsuANE, July 20. The barque Speculaut, bound from Sydney to the Marshall group, has been wrecked at Juliut. The crew have arrived here. Another case of smallpox has occurred among the passengers; detained at the quarantine ground. A Kanaka out-door patient of the hospital has been found to be suffering from smallpox. The other patients and the officials have in consequence been placed in quarantine.