TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2405, 29 September 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, Sept. 25. Mr Gladstone has an article in the North American Review in reply to the Duke of Argyle. He ridicules the idea that the British would allow the Irish to oppress the minority, and points out that England retains the power vested in the old Irish Parliament. If the Duke is right, contends Mr Gladstone, the Irish would not be a human people at all, but a combination of the brute and the demon. The analogy drawn between the relations of the white people and the negroes in the, United States is erroneous."" It is reported that the Russians have seized four sealers and taken them to Vladivistock. Sept. 26. At a meeting of the Evicted Tenants Association at Cork, a demand was made for a quarter of a million to support tenants in default of reinstatement. The speakers hinted at the danger of civil war unless the demand was acceded to. An English man-of-war has been ordered to Vladivostok to enquire into the circumstances attending the ( seizure of English sealers. i The Times' Calcutta correspondent wires that in response to representations from India the Earl of Kimberlcy, Secretary for India, has replied opposing the proposal to allow gold coinage or to close the mints against the coinage of silver, as he belives that silver ought to be allowed to find its natural level. The decision has aroused a serious outcry in Calcutta. Mr John Dillon was thrown from a car to-day, and sustained a fracture of one of his arms. Meetings continue to be held throughout Ireland in favour of reorganising the National League. The Standard in commenting on the decision of New Zealand to protect its fauna says that the Ministry is wise beyond the wont of colonial Governments, and the colony will be honoured by visits of naturalists from all parts of the world. The following is the result of the race for the Lancashire Plate, of 10,000 sovs :—La Fleche 1 ; Orvieto 2 : L'Anthony 3. The Dublin Express believes that the majority of political prisoners will be released before Christmas. A correspondent writing to the Times declares that mob rule governs Australia.

The Times, commenting on Dr Fen wick's letter on the boarding-out system in New South Wales, considers that the legislation he proposed in 1883, curtailing parental rights, would correct some of the evils existing at Home and abroad. Ruby Russell, an actress living at Fulham with Mr Heron, a surgeon from the Gambia district, was found dead. Poison is suspected, and Heron has committed suicide. Three hundred cattle have been killed at Maryborough, in Ireland, owing to an outbreak of cattle plague. A Sydney resident in a letter to the Daily Chronicle advises immigrants against going to Austrlia. He says that there are 10,000 unemployed in New South Wales, and 15,000 in Victoria, and that trade is paralysed. The British Government have agreed to divide the cost with Canada of fortifying the Pacific stations. Fearing that the funds invested in Paris may fall into the hands of the French, the Parnellites are now willing that they should be withdrawn, and re-invested and administered by a committee chosen from both sections of the Irish Party. The proposals of' the Tasmanian Government to abolish the AgentGeneral in London, is regarded in the city as a confession of the straits in which the colony has found itself, and it is thought it would be be better to retrench in the colony than do away with representation in England, The Colonial Office regards the proposed reduction in the Governor'", salary as likely to do bany, ± 0 e colony, as it vrm£& disgust the best Candidates for the office ; also that it would affect the scale of pensions. Paris, Sept. 26.

Counte de Houssonville, in a manifesto issued on behalf of the Comte de Petri's, declines to accede to the Pope's dicta to support Republicanism as too unreasonable. Heasserts that it is rather the duty of the Monarchists to convert the deynpeyacy, and declares that the French Republic will yet crumble. M. Floqiiet. in the course of a patriotic speech, said that the liepublic had baffled all attacks, and only required lime to accomplish social reforms and compete the work of revolution,

A Spanish painter named Pedro, resident in Paris, had a quarrel with liis wife, whom he accused of adultery. The result was that he killed her and her mother, and fatally injured his brother-in-law. Lisbon. Sept. 20. The Portuguese Government have modified the duties in the hope that trade will benefit by the reduction. A syndicate has made an offer to expend £15,000,000 on railways and harbour works in Portuguese Africa. St. Petersburg, Sept. 27.

During the Army manoeuvres at Ivanzorod, a gun burst and wounded a number of soldiers, The, Caar and

Czarina personally assisted the sufferers, the latter nursing the man who was most hurt, and afterwards accompanying him to the hospital. Ottawa. Sept. 26. A Toronto lady accidentally fell from the suspension bridge over the Nigara river, but her feet were caught in the lowest girders and she hung there in imminent peril of death till rescued by an Irish clergyman who was on the bridge. Washington, Sept. 25. The supporters of women's suffrage in the United States have nominated Mrs Victoria Woodhull for the Presidency. Count Millenburg, of Bavaria, while on a visit to Philadelphia, shot himself with a revolver in a bathroom, which was filled with gas. Love troubles were the cause. Calcutta, Sept. 25. Hassman Ali, the Black Mountain i chief, has refused to surrender, and General Lockhart will cross the Indus immediately. Zanzibar, Sept. 27. Attempts to raise cattle and sheep in German East Africa has failed. Hong Kong, Sept. 27. The Yellow River has overflowed its banks and inundated twelve towns, causing great distress. A typhoon swept the Foo Choo Islands, causing frightful damage. Five thousand buildings and sixty junks were destroyed. A vast quantity of crops was swept away, and many people killed. New York, Sept. 25.

A cry of fire caused a panic in a synagogue. Twelve hundred women rushed for the stairs, and in the crush that ensued four of the women were trampled to death. San Francisco, Sept. 25.

A company of Californian fruit growers have taken up three thousand acres at the irrigation settlement of Mildura, in Victoria.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE,

Sydney, Sept. 26. Very bad weather is being experienced throughout the couutry. News is received from the New Hebrides Islands to the effect that that tribal wars are devastating the Island of M&llicollo. The Medical Congress, which was opened to-day by Lord Jersey, is the largest ever held in the colony, hundred and forty-six names are on the congress roll. Sept. 27. JNeilson won his heat in the Sculling Tournament against Kemp. Towns did the fastest time on record, 17min. 4(H sec. Neilson rows Croe3e in the final. Towns, Kemp, and Roberts row for third and fourth prizes. Great damage has been caused to the crops and stock by floods in the Bathurst and Dubbo districts. The Inverell potato crops in the Hawkesbury district, is almost destroyed. The old Central Police site, in George strpet, was sold by auction today and purchased by the City Corporation for £124,000. Melbourne, Sept. 26.

The Crown Law Officers are making enquiries into the peculiar statement made by the woman Parker. It is understood that a sensational conspiracy case will result. Brisbane, Sept. 26. F. Hort'ocks, the young man convicted of murdering a new arrival named Weismuller, suffered the extreme penalty the law to-day. He showed no sign of fear, and walked to the gallows with a firm tread,