TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2395, 6 September 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

London, Sept. 1

A wild heifer entered Hawarden park while Mr Gladstone was walking beneath the trees. The beast charged the Premier, knocked him down, and trampled on him. Fortunately the animal's horns were turned and so prevented it from goring Mr Gladstone who managed to escape and take refuge behind the trees. He was much shaken, but not seriously hurt. The heifer then made off and afterwards attacked another man. Finally it was shot.

It is not likely that M. Padarewski, the eminent pianist, will visit the Australian colonies before 1894.

Ferris only comes out fourth in the Gloucester county bowling with an average of 28 runs per wicket, and is sixth on the batting list with 18. W. Grace has the best average for his county with 36. Mr Burbohm, author of Wheat Circulars, is dead. M. Waddington, the French Ambassador to Great Britain, has sent in his resignation on account of his dislike to Lord Rosebery, the new Minister of Foreign Affairs. Sept. 3.

A fire broke out on board the ship Auckmountain, loading at Greenock for New Zealand ports, and before the fire could be extinguished the vessel was almost completely destroyed. Twenty tons of powder stored in the magazine exploded, and the windows for miles around were broken. Fortunately the captain and crew escaped to the Clyde guard-ship before tUe explosion occurred. The Colonial Office has informed Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, that the statement that thousand of Russian pauper Jews were preparing to leave for the Australian colonies is not true. Consequently the Imperial Government do not contemplate taking any action in the matter.

The Campania, a new vessel for the Cunard Steamship Company, has launched at Govan, on the left bank of the Clyde. She has a displacement of 19,000 tons when loaded, and is nearlv as large as the Great Eastern. Ireland is beginning to show agrarian unrest, and the evicted tenants are again agitating for reinstatement.

The Duke of Cumberland's agreement respecting the Guelph Fund involves the loss of the entire income of the Queen of Hanover, and the Duke is unable to assist.

Madrid, Sept. 1

Moorish pirates have captured a Spanish vessel and hold eleven of the crew in captivity. Brussels, Sept. 1.

By the explosion in a mine at Framieres 10 colliers were killed and 30 are entombed.

Sept. 2. Twenty-six death were caused by the explosion in Framiers' colliery. St. Petersburg, Sept. 1.

In connection with the capture of the sealers Russia claims a jurisdiction within one thousand miles of the Siberian shore.

Constantinople, Sept. 4.

. A scaffolding attached to a building in course erection in Pera, on the north side of the Golden Horn, on the summit of the hill above Galata and Tophane, collapsed, and fifteen workmen were killed. The architect has been arrested.

Toeonto, Sept 1

In the two mile sculling race Hanlan defeated Stephenson (the champion of New Zealand) by two lengths. Washington, Sept. 2. .

A steamer sank in a storm on Lake Superior. The crew and captain's family, 27 in all, manned the yawl, and after 22 hours sighted land, hut the boat capsized, and the only survivor to tell the story was a sailor who swam ten miles to shore.

New York, Sept. 2,

Professor Pickering, dirctor of the observatory at Havard University, has discovered two mountain range's and eleven lakes on the planet Mars.