TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2399, 25 August 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London. Aug. 22, Mr John Burns formally thanks the Australian trade unions for the interest they showed in the general election. The Daily Chronicle is urging that the time has come for the State to acquire the ownership of the railways. The Financial News commends Mr Ballance’s policy as a great and grand departure, and declares that New Zealand is on the highway to a career of successful development. A letter by Mr Gladstone has been published in the Italian newspapers strongly condemning the Triple Alliance. / Several more deaths have occurred in Paris and Berlin from the excessive heat. D. H. Jackson, of New Zealand, has been awarded a Science scholarship founded by the Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851. A crowd quietly removed four hundred yards of railway line on common lands in Lecton, near London, as a protest against the infringement of the privileges of the townspeople. Mr Perceval, Agent-General for New Zealand, will deliver a lecture at the Working Men’s College in November, upon land settlement, labour, and land laws. An engine on the Great Eastern line ran into an excursion train to Epping Forest yesterday. In the panic that ensued fifty people were more or less injured. The shipping journals are exercised about the low rates of freight between England and America, which have dropped to a point never reached before. They attribute it to the enormous excess of tonnage above the demand. The Naples Courier publishes a letter written by Mr Gladstone before the result of the election was known in which he deplores the expense entailed on Italy by its military establishment and describes tbe future of Europe as dark. Paris, Aug. 22. A was train thrown off the rails at Beziers, in the south of France. Five persons were killed and forty injured. Berlin, Aug. 22. . During the German manoeuvres seven soldiers died from sunstroke and one hundred were disabled. Half the town of Santra Cassel has been burned down. Krupp is establishing a factory in Russia, Cholera is increasing in Hamburg, and has appeared in Antwerp. Rome. Aug. 22. A regiment of Italian soldiers on the march to Venice left one hundred of their number by the roadside overcome by the heat. Madrid, Aug. 22. The Benedictine Monastery at Montserrat, near Barcelona, has been burned. Vienna, Aug 22. During the erection of a flue at some iron works in Styria, several workmen fell asleep in it and were forgotten. Work went on and the unfortunate men were bricked up in the flue where they were slowly roasted to death when the furnace fires were lighted. Two hundred soldiers were sunstruck in Carniola and eleven died. The -Emperor, upon hearing of the fatality ordered the manoeuvres to be curtailed. St. Petersburg, Aug. 22, A riot lias broken out between workmen engaged at Hughes’ steel factory at Ekaterinsalov and the peasantry. The workmen’s houses were fired and the factory wrecked. The military were called out and quelled the disturbance, but not before several were killed. Several of those connected with cholera riots in Saratov have been hung, and large numbers were deported to Sibera.

Russia is colonising the Khopsja valley on the A%han border, and challenges the right of the Ameer to occupy Shighman in the Pamirs, Teheran, Aug. 22. Eight hundred deaths from cholera are recorded, Mr 'Daily, ViceGovernor of the city, and several Europeans are among those who have succumbed. Washington, Aug. 22. A fanner and his two ,sop,E were murdered in Tenessee over a family vendetta. The graves of former members were dynamited and the bodies torn to pieces. News from South America states that owing to the revolt a state of scige ]i aq been proclaimed in the principal towns qf Bolivia. Dynamite was found laid in the Customs building in the capital. Yokohama, Aug, 21. Earthquakes and Hoods between them have Avrecked ten thousand houses in Japan. Five hundred persons Avere killed or droAvned, IJon(i Kqnu, Aug. 22. Placards are being posted in Human, Inciting the populace to outrage. The missionaries are greatly alarmed. SfNOAfoiiE, Aug. 22, The murderers of the Australian miners, Stewart and Harris, at Pahang, have been found guilty. Buenos Ayres, Aug, 22. Owing to a dispute in Congress the President of the Republic, Hr Carlos Pelligriui, has resigned.