TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2396, 16 August 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

London, Aug. 12. Archbishop Vaughan will shortly be created a Cardinal.

The Appeal Court have decided that it is illegal for an employer to deduct from an employe’s wages an amount for a compulsory benefit society. The Press critics declare that Miss Frances Saville, of Sydney, is likely to advance before Madame Melba in the profession.

The naval manoeuvres have concluded. During the manoeuvres the warships Naiad and Apollo grounded at Berehaven, but were refloated. The Arethusa’s propeller drove a hole into one of the torpedo boats, and two persons were injured. On another torpedo boat an explosion took place, and three men were injured. Paris, Aug. 11. The French have taken possession of Gloriosa Island, a small in the Mozambique Channel, 100 miles from the north extremity of Madagascar. Frances declines to submit the Congo difficulty to arbitration. Aug. 12. France has annexed Amsterdam and St. Paul Islands in the Indian Ocean. Berlin, Aug. 10. Wolff, of Leipzig, a banker, was sentenced to ten years for misappropriation of £220,000. St. Petersburg, Aug. 11.

Fifteen hundred persons at Trebizond who had been placed in quarantine owing to the cholera attempted to break through the cordon placed around them. The soldiers were called out, and quelled the disturbance, but not before seven people were killed. Aug. 12. A mad wolf raided a Russian village. Thirty persons, besides many horses, cattle, and sheep, were bitten. The village is now full of persons who have gone raving mad. Yokohama, Aug. 12. The Japanese war ship Lenkimarn foundered in a typhoon, and sixty of the crew were drowned. Victoria (8.C.), Aug. 12. H.M.S. Warsprite, while entering the Port of Esquimault, grounded and sprang a leak.