TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2390, 2 August 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, July 28. The following is the result" of the Goodwood Cup : Martagnon, 1 : Blue Green, 2: Colorado, 8. Sir C. Tupper is of opinion that the establishment of preferential duties within the empire may promote free trade all over the world". It is reported that 11.M.5. Champion has left for Honolulu with orders to seize the Cornwallis Islands, southwest of Hawaii, for the purpose of a cable station.

The personalty of the late Duke of Devonshire has been sworn at under £1,800 ; 000. It is to be divided among the family, the bulk going to the present Duke. l)r Collins, formerly attached to the ilorse Guards, has been con- . victed of forging promissory notes for £ISOO, and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. Sir R. Hamilton, Governor of Tasmania, in an article in the Nineteenth Century upon lending money to Australia, defends the colonies against the charges of corruption and wholesale misappropriation, lie admits, however, that an appreciable amount of loans has been spent on works of no immediate necessity, and advises each colony to elect a" standing committee without whose sanction no new railways shall be undertaken ; or, better still, to insist upon the railways being made to pay their way. lie believes that there is great scope for a reduction in working expenses, and that the railway account should constitute a distinct budget: also that loans ought to be incurred in case of works of magnitude.

The British Medical Association have decided to admit women.

Sir Julius Vogel replies to the Investors' Review hi a vigorous article, denouncing its comments on New Zealand as a pack of lies, and the writer as a pestilent pessimist who undervalues tiie resources of the colony and cannot see the policy of constructing railways to open up difficult country. He says that the losses sustained by the companies are under those that have been suffered elsewhere ; and that, finally, the colony is not liable for harbour board loans. Mr 11. M. Stanley considers that concerted action by the nation is the only way to suppress slavery and condemns the auti-slavery society. July 20.

An .English gentleman lias purchased the Althorp library from Earl Spencer. The purchaser intends to place the library in some suitable building, and will give the public access to it.

The Rev. Joseph Sydney Hill, late of Auckland., has been appointed Bishop designate of the Niger. The Duke of Manchester is sinking. Wilson (salesman), and Lamb (cashier), of Messrs Reynolds, Gibbon and Co., Liverpool, who were convicted of embezzling the firm's money to the extent of £F),O(JO, have been sentenced to 3 years and 4 years' imprisonment respectively. It is reported that cholera has appeared in Malta. July 30.

A futile attempt has been made to assassinate Count Oakuma, leader of the Japanese Progressist party, and Viscount Kuo. Minister of Justice. Pauis, July 2'.). The French authorities prohibit the socialist congress. Four anarchists have been sentenced to 2o years' imprisonment on charges of stealing dynamite cartridges. Mauiiij), July 29. Spain is floating a two million loan. Berlin, July 29. The Kaiser is in favour of the idea of holding an exhibition in Berlin. The Vossiche Zeitung describes the English missionaries in German Africa as setting about their work with a Bible in one hand and a rifle in the other, and demand their explusion. Vienna, July 30, Count Hubner is dead. CoNSTAN'rrxoi'LE, July 30.

Information has been received that 10.000 armed Albanians have surrounded Jarooa, a town 67 miles E.N.E. of Scutari, on the White Drin. The Turkish Governor, with five battalions of troops and six batteries, has gone to suppress the revolt. Copenhagen, duly MO. A small arms factory in this city lias been destroyed by tire. St. Petehsbuki;, July 2'J. A gang of robbers iu Warsaw murdered a family of six, stabbing the parents with knives, and dashing the children's iiead.s against the wall. Cholera is abating in Persia, but is spreading rapidly in the interior of Russia, and'has made its appearance in "Warsaw.

Cholera lias 'appeared at. Kharko.T and Tribizon. In consequence of the epidemic the fair at Nijni Novogorod will be closed at an earlv date. July 30. The report that a Russian expedition under Captain Jan oft' had started for Pamir is confirmed. Sofia, duly .'JO. M. Siaiubulotf' is publishing a document purchased for .'SO.OIHJ francs from Jacobsohn, a Russian dragoman in Bucharest, gravely implicating the Russian Government in an attempt to murder Prince Ferdinand. Calcutta, July 2!), Other tribes are juining the revolt in which the Haziiras are concerned.

A British force of four hundred men lias been ordered to proceed to Gomil Pass. Ta.nikl'RS, July MO. The Moorish Court displays a defiant attitude towards the British Commissioner, anil is preparing to receive the French mission with unprecedented honour. The Moors fired on a Spanish gunboat, which returned the fire and silenced the Moors. Zanzdjau, July 28. King Mangwa has escaped from the Catholics and rejoined the Protestant natives. The French bishop. Vamby. urges the Catholics to continue the war against the Protestants. Washington, July 28. Intense heat is being experienced throughout America. Fifty deaths are reported from sunstroke at Chicago, and the hospitals are filled with patients suffering from sunstroke. Many thousands of labourers have been compelled to quit work from the heat. The thermometer to-day registered from 1)8 to 101 in the shade. Many factories have had to suspend work in consequence of the heat. New York, July 30. More than a hundred deaths from sunstroke are reported in New York. The trams have stopped running, and the severe heat has decimated the horses. Business is at a standstill.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE,

Melbourne, July 20. The Treasurer's statement shows a debit balance of £1,000.600. The revenue for the year fell £BB,OOO below the estimate, and the deficit to be carried forward to current year's accounts amounts to £1,000,000. It was aunounced that the Government propose to reduce the special grants to the university, free libraries, school of mines, the prospecting vote, and the subsidy to municipalities, as they feel satisfied no new loan could be raised for two or three years. The Government propose to equalise revenue and expenditure, and appropriate, half a million of the current year's revenue to reducing the deficit, and to pursue, this course year by year until the deficit has been wiped off. The Government had decided nut to impose an income tax, but additional stamp duties, which are expected to yield £].<io,ooo, would be imposed. It was proposed to increase the duties on spirits, wine, beer and tea, and also to impose an absentee tax. In regard to the increased customs duties the Treasurer said the Governmen would endeavour to give inceased protection. The import duties on cheese would be increased from from 2d to;»d per lb, on potatoes from 10s to 20s- per ton, and on woollen manufactures from 2-> per cent to M per cent. It was also menthat there would be a considerable inincrease in the timber duties, but the amount was not made public. July 80. Under the new duties ®n timber New Zealand pine is exempt, and 15s Gd per 100 lineal feet is imposed on boarding. Sydney, July 80. The Queensland footballers have defeated New South Wales by IS points to 1. lioii.vnT, July. 80.

The Treasurer delivered his Financial Statement last night. The deficiency in the year's revenue amounts to £37,000, and the expenditure has increased £49,000 beyond the Estimates. The total deficit of this and last year amounts to £70,000. It is proposed to retrench Civil Servants' salaries ~> per cent., and reduce the Governor's salary from £SOOO to £3o(.l(). Also to reduce the salaries of members of the Government. It is intended to increase the Customs duties nil nilorem to 20 per cent.,grain from lOd to Is Gel per cwt., and also to impose a stock tax of 40s per head.