TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2407, 4 October 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London. Sept. 20. Mr E. C N. Braddon, AgentGeneral for Tasmania, has published an article in one of the local papers, demanding that England should legalise the celebration of marriages in the colony with a deceased wife's sister. It is now believed that Ruby Russell, who was found dead in Fulham, and whom it. was suspected that Heron poisoned, with whom she was cohabiting, committed suicide. It is alleged that she discovered that Heron (who committed suicide after her death) had another mistress in the person of a quadroon from the Senegambia district. The Post Office has definitely declined to renew assistance to the continuance of the San Francisco mail contract, except under Union rates. Mr "W. B. Perceval, AgentGeneral for New Zealand, is seeking an interview with Mr Arnold Morley the Postmaster-General, on the subject. The Russians have seized four more Biitish and two American sealers. The British and Foreign AntiSlavery Association in a memorial to the Marquis of Ripon on the proposed introduction of kanaka labour into Queensland, declare that State safeguards are impossible, and they entreat an immediate stoppage to the traffic. The annual report of the London School Board shows that free education has only fractionally increased the attendance of children. The Prince of Wales and Lord Methven, in inspecting the Life Guards, promised that if the offenders in the late insubordination would step forward, the matter would be treated as one of simple insubordination, but otherwise it would be regarded as mutiny. The men remained silent. Alderman Stuart Knell, a staunch Roman Catholic, has been elected Lord Mayor of London. He refuses to attend the official ceremony in a Protestant Church, but expresses his willingness to appoint a locum tenens. On his making this announcement there was great hooting and nproar. Several of the speakers predicted a return to popery. It ii reported that henceforth the Household Troops are to take part in foreign service. Oct. 1. Mr S. Whitbread, Home Ruler, has been elected for South Bedford by a majority of 244: over Colonel Duke, Unionist. The Marquis of Ripon, replying to the congratulations of the AgentsGeuend, said that they would always find him sympathising with the colonies, the advanced laws of which were teaching Great Britain something fresh. The Times publishes the text of the message sent by Count Shiskin, of the Russian Foreign Office, to the Sultan of Turkey. It is bullying in tone, and demands that Turkey shall cease to hold friendly relations with Bulgaria. Mr Knell has guaranteed that the Protestant charities shall not suffer by his election as Lord Mayor, and that he will not allow Roman Catholics precedence. A motion that Mr Knell's confession of allegiance to the Pope disqualified him for the civic chair was over-ruled. Archbishop Vaughan, replying to some statements in the Globe, says that it is allowable for a Roman Catholio to attend a Protestant Church, in waiting on his master or sovereign, and also for soldiers and policemen. He commends the fa.irn.ess of Alderman Knell's election,

The Liev. Mr Mills, an Anglican vi'car in Somersetshire, has been declared bankrupt. His liabilities are £6OOO, partly caused by losses on the turf.

Sir Julius Vogel considers that the Insurance Bill introduced into the New Zealand Parliament is a forced loan, and that it is foolish of the Government to persist with it. In any case the amounts are to> sma ]i for the purpose. He- commen d s 'the Marquis of Ri^ jn > s decision respecting the Council, but does not agree with the view that the Ministry should have resigned. Dr Usher, of Melbourne, who claims to have discovered a cure for the crave for alcohol, was to-day examined before the Committee enquiring into the treatment of habitual drunkards. He made some important recommendations.

M. Paderewski, the eminent pianist, who is lying seriously ill in Paris, suffering frosm rheumatic fever, is our of danger. It will be two months before he is able to appear before the public. He looses £9OOO by having to cancel his contract.

The revenue for the quarter ended 30th September, has increased by £137.000.

The Cabinet have decided to evacuate I'ganda, but offer to contribute towards the cost of occupation until March, because Sir Gerald Portal, the British Consul-General at Zanzibar, considers immediate evacuation unsafe. The Government declare that they will reserve a free hand in the matter in the future.

G. B. J. Cooper, son of a leading Winchester merchant, has confessed that he killed his wife in the Isle of Mail in a fit of passion.

Lord Dorrington has been converted to the Roman Catholic Church. Messrs Negretti and Zambia, the well-known instrument makers, have adopted Mr W. B. Perceval's suggestion, and have invented a thermograph to record the maximum and minimum temperature of a steamer's cooling chamber during the voyage. The instruments will run for two months. Paris, Oct. 1. News has been received that the French gun boats have shelled Tohone, near the coast of Dahomey. The natives lost a large number of lives, and the place is said to have been literally strewn with dead Dahomeyans. M. Hector Cremeiux, the composer, has committed suicide. Vienna, Oct 1. The police believe that they have arrested the London "Jack the Ripper" in the person of Alois Sdemdyki, an Austrian. Kossuth demands the production of the Austrian law of Dynastic Succession, and asserts that it is a forgery. The merchants and Customs officers arrested in Bukowina, a province on the Russian frontier, on a charge of robbing the Austrian Customs of immense sums by systematic frauds, have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, ranging from four to four months. Constantinople, Oct. 1. The Sultan has appointed a Commission, consisting of Moslems and Christians, to report on the present condition of Armenia. St. Petersburg, Sept. 29. It is stated that the Tartars at Siratoif have reverted to human sacrifices. The victim's head was partly severed, and the heart torn out, while the savages danced round images. Calcutta, September 28. General Lockhart's force, numbering 0000 men, is now marching on the Black Mountains, and is under orders to destroy Baio, where Hassim Ali has been harboured, but to avoid trouble with the Bonerwalls. Zanzibar, Sept. 28. The slave trade is increasing in East Africa. It is stated that the Arabs succeed in getting 75 per cent, of their captives down to the coast. Capetown, Sept. 30. The elections in Natal show fourteen in favor of responsible Government and ten against. San Francisco, Sept. 29. Dr Beales, keeper of a hospital for females, has been arrested on a serious charge connected with the institution. It is reported that forty children are missing. Dr Beales was released on bail, and aided, it is alleged, by wealthy families escaped. Mrs Montrose, the midwife who was his accomplice, has confessed. The Russians have released one of the sealers which they seized. There are signs ofßusaia, backing down in the mntter,