TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2398, 20 August 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

London, Aug. 15. The Rev. Mr Baynes, Canon of Twickenham, has been committed for trial on a charge of assaulting two girls. He denies the charge. The Duke of Devonshire was married to-day to the Dowager Duchess of Manchester. Mr W. T. Stead has made further and more sensational attacks on Sir Charles Diike in the Review of Reviews.

Miss Maron Disney in letters to the Daily News, gives heartrendering scenes attending the employment of Kanaka labour. She alleges that the Islanders have to submit to horrible treatment, and their condition is worse than that of American slaves.

The Earl of Aberdeen will shortly succeed Lord Stanley of Preston as Governor-General of Canada, Mr Munro returns to Melbourne next month. Sir Andrew Clarke will act as Agent-General for Victoria in his absence. The new ouiser Hawk, 7250 tons, capsized in Chatham dock while being launched.

The Thracian, which capsized off the Isle of Man, was a new four-masted barque. She was being towed from Gi’eenock to Liverpool when she was struck by a squall, and sank in five minutes. The captain and his wife and twenty-two seamen were drowned. The Times states that the Agent,sGeneral were originally commercial representatives of the colonies but have now assumed the position of ambassadors, and are destined to take an important part in securing the federation of the empire.

The Archbishop of Trebizond, Papal delegate, invested Archbishop Vaughan with the Pallium to-day at Brompton Oratory. There was a great gathering, and the ceremony was of a most impressive character. Many Protestant notables were present. Aug. 18. Sir U. Loch, High Commissioner of Cape, has been created G.C.8., and Sir John Pender G.C.M.G.

Eleven persons were burned to death and several injured by a fire in a model lodging-house at Tredger, in Mommouthshire.

Mr Matthews, M.P., sails for Australia in the Rinmtaka. It is believed that the Colonial Office will not veto Lord Glasgow’s decision with reference to the appointment of additional members to the Legislative Council of Now Zealand. The Eastern Extension Cable Company do not approve of the increase in cable rates between Europe and Australia, and. do not. believe that the new charges will benefit the colonies. Probably a lesser number of words will be sent on the wires, but the company are willing to confc'nue to lose, in the hope of .-ventually succeeding in making the lines pay without any guarantee from the colonies.

Rome. Aug. 16, The Pope is lodging pilgrims in the Vatican. Brussels, Aug. 16. Information has been received that Twadia natives raided Kilna, ■ on the Congo, firing villages and killing twenty occupants, St. Petersburg, Aug. 16. The Russian doctors are discussing vaccination as a remedy for cholera. Cholera has broken out at Helsingfors. Aug. 17.

The mob destroyed the cholera hospital in Star-Belsk. The epidemic has spread to Galicia, but it is abating in the Nijui Novgorod, Baku, and Astrakan districts. New York, Aug. 17.

Information is to hand that five States in Venezuela have seceded from the Republic and formed an independent league. T anthers, Aug. 17.

The Angherite rebels have withdrawn from warfare, and the Sultan is now master of the situation.

Teheran, Ang. 10. The daily death rate in this city from cholera is 800.

AUSTRALIAN CARLE,

Sydney, Aug. 16. Wungott’s rubber goods factory has been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £BOOO. The South British have a risk of £IOOO ; the New Zealand of the same amount, and tho National of New Zealand £SOO. Hoiuut, Aug. IS. Parliament has sanctioned the issue of £150,000 worth of Treasury bills for the immediate requirements of the Government, The House has adjourned until October 4th when the taxation and retrenchment proposals will be brought down.