TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2404, 27 September 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, Sept. 28

The Duke of Sutherland is dead. He was attacked with a chill and gastric troubles, and died in a few hours at his residence, Dunrobin Castle.

Mr Walton, Gladstonian, was elected for South Leeds by a majority of 948 over Mr Neville, Conservative. Mr William Blewitt, of Blewitt and Tyler, solicitors, who is a director of the London and General Bank, limited, which suspended payment, attempted to commit suicide at Epping yesterday. He inflicted three wounds on his throat and opened veins in his wrist. He lies in a critical condition.

, <i: The Archbishop of Canterbury, with the assistance of many English bishops, has initiated a fund for the purchase of the site in Palestine which General Gordon identified as the Sepulchre of Christ. Professor George Broom Robertson, the well known author of philosophical works, aetate 50, is dead. Father Humphrey, charged with taking part in riots at the Tipperary election, has been committed for trial. Sept. 24. The Marchioness of Abergavenny is dead.

Mr Allen, secretary of the Marriage Law Reform Association, in a letter to The Times, urges that marriages fully celebrated in one Province should be valid throughout the Empire and States.

Twenty-two thousand feet additional space has been granted to the British Commissioners.

The Church Missionary Society is urging the Foreign Department to hold Uganda, even if the British East Africa Company evacuate the country. Lord Rosebury has replied that the Cabinet would approach the question with a solemn sense of what was due to the society and to the people of Uganda and Great Britain. Regarding the future he says that it is not easy to see the end. Berlin, Sept. 24. The Russian papers are making a bitter attack on Germany. The attitude, is attributed to Count Schiska, who was recently appointed to assist M. De Giers in the Foreign Office, and who has virtual control of the Department, owing to the illness of the latter. Constantinople, Sept. 22. M. Nelikoff presented to the Sultan a Note from the Russian Government re Bulgaria. The sensation continues. Two thousand students have departed from Constantinople in vessels which sailed under secret orders.

Sept. 23

In connection with the deportation of students from the city the Sultan alleges that they were removed owing to the fear of cholera spreading. St. Petersburg, Sept. 22.

The hearing of a Finland cause celeb re has just come to an end. Mrs Sainio, the young and brainless wife of a college professor, poisoned her husband. After, a lengthened trial the Court ordered her right hand to be cut off, and she was then to be beheaded and her body burned, convict appeals to the Czar against the sentence. Brisbane, Sept. 22. The officials of the Congo Company deny any intention of occupying Wadelai. Lisbon, Sept. 22. Francis Andrews has crossed from New Jersey to Lisbon in a boat 15 feet long. He was two months on the voyage. Calcutta, Sept. 22. The Chinese have turned back forty-four of Colonel Yanoff's expedition, who had advanced beyond Tashkurgan, into Chinese Turkestan. Sept. 24 Further Russian reinforcemeuts to the Pamir expedition have passed through Tashkand, the military headquarters of the Russians in Turkestan. The interview between Lord Roberts and the Ameer of Afghanistan will probably take place early in December. The Ameer of Afghanistan is reported to have posted a notice on the gates of Jelalabad warning the tribes that he has sent for two brigades of British troops to guard the banks of the Ainoo Darya river, for the purpose of repelling the Russians, whom he describes as tyrannical Kaffirs. The Horwiteh expedition to Ivarakorum range, Himalaya mountains, has discovered a lake of snow three hundred square miles in extent, and a mountain :>V-) (>!) f''«'-t I'ig'l- - Sept. 21. The steam launch which was conveying Sir Cecil Clement Smith, Governor of the Straits Settlement, on his return from the Malay Peninsula, where he had been decorating the Sultan of Perak with the order of Commander of St. Michael and St. George, foundered in Kinta river. His Excellency had a narrow escape from drowning, and actually sank twice, but ultimately was rescued by a Malay, though in a very exhausted condition.

Ottawa. Sept. 2-1-

Statistics submitted at the Presbyterian Alliance, sitting in Toronto, showed that the Alliance represents 20,000,000 Christians. It was proposed to add a third section to the

executive, which will include Australia.

Washington, Sept. 22. The telegraph operators at lowa are striking. The Chicago express came into collision with a goods train at Pittsburg. The cars caught fire, and six persons, who were pinned down under the timbers, were burned to death. Many who were injured were taken to the hospital. New York, Sept. 22. Robbers in Kansas wrecked a train and carried away half a million dollars. Five passengers were killed and many injured.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE,

Sydney, Sept. 23. The Bulli colliery has been laid idle owing it is believed to slackness of trade. Two starters in the sculling championship have resigned owing to the decision of the committee to make Sullivan and Kemp row. The former declares that he will not row again, and will take legal proceedings to uphold his position. Sept. 25. A severe storm was experienced here on Saturday morning, and the wind reached the velocity of 120 miles an hour. The gale was occompanied by a heavy rainfall, and it is estimated that two inches fell in a short period. The storm water caused quite £SOOO of damage to the city. The loss of two lives is reported. Melbourne, Sept. 23.

The Legislative Assembly has rejected the proposed stamp duty on mortgages, which is one of the most important items in the New Stamp Act. Brisbane, Sept. 24.

A Bill has been introduced into the Legislative Assembly requiring fire and life insurance companies to deposit a security with the Government foi the fulfilment of their obligations. Local fire insurance companies will be required to deposit security to the amount of -£SOOO each, and foreign fire insurance companies £IO,OOO each; and foreign life insurance companies £20,000 each. A deputation of representatives of insurance companies has been appointed to wait on the Government, urging in lieu of the present measure the substitution of a Bill based on the provisions of the Bill introduced by the Government of New Zealand.