TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2408, 6 October 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, Oct. 3

The Church missionaries decline to withdraw from Uganda. The Government will grant the British East Africa Company £13,000. It is reported that a Commissioner will be appointed to administer the affairs of the district.

The Spectatoi says that Germany is taking measures to increase her army by 140,000 men in two years, which it thinksindicat.es a preparation for a prolonged struggle with France. Sir Julius Vogel concurs with Mr Deakin that direct taxation to a moderate amount will strenthen the finances of Victoria and promote economy. He suggests that Victoria should follow the New Zealand system of land settlement. Messrs Mann, Burns, Shipton, and Keir Hardie have refused to attend the Socialist meeting in Trafalgar Square. Oct. 4. The Rev. James Spurgeon is ill with gout in the throat, and his condition is critical. The British East Africa Company will accept the Government grant of £13,000, and will delay withdrawal from Uganda till March. Mr 41. M. Stanley says that there are 12,000,000 natives in Uganda and the neighbouring countries, who would welcome the arrival of English produce in Central Africa if a railway were made to the coast. If the opening up of the interior is to be abandoned, then the cession of Heligoland to Germany was usless. The postponement of the railway will be disastrous to humanity. The Bankruptcy Court has ordered the Rev. Mr Mules, whose insolvency was caused by gambling, to explain his proceedings and account for the assignment of his assets.

Lord Tennyson, the Poet. Laureate, is seriously ill, suffering from influenza and gout.

Four members of the Life Guards have been arrested at Windsor on a charge of mutiny. The personalty in the estate of Lord Sherbrooke has been proved at £15,000. The widow receives an income derived from the personalty besides a jointure of £IO,OOO. After her death the Rev, Meville Sherbrooke receives £SOOO, and the mother of the legatee £13,000. No reference is made to his Australian property, and there are no colonial legacies. His portrait he left to the London University, but a legacy ot £IOOO was revoked last year. An English syndicate is being formed to purchase 3000 acres at Mildura irrigation settlement in Victoria. It is stated that 5000 Gilbert Islanders have been shipped to Mexico where they will be sold to the planters. Germany has assented to an increase in the cable tariff, and Russia is daily expected to agree. Lord Houghton, the Viceroy of Ireland, was coldly received oq Ju s arrival in Dublin, Thg oH’ /,J l . l j' s f the Castle mad.e their ties au excuse mr y rom welcoming him. Paris, Oct, 2. Advices from Dahomey report that Colonel Dodds, the French Commander, is investing Abomey, the capital of the country, The Dahomeyans, after losing several hundreds in the recent battle, kept the field, under fire, in order to collect the dead, and the slaughter was so great that the total loss was creased to 1300.

Leprau defeated the Dutchman, Ovins, in the French sculling championship at Paris. Joseph Arneti Renan, the great French philologist, died yesterday of congestion of the lungs and weakness of the heart, after a few days’ illness. It is proposed to decree him a public funeral. The English press generally recognises M. Renan’s death as the loss of one of the greatest writers and scholars of modern times. Oct. 3. M. Renan will have a national funeral, and his remains will be ultimately placed in the Pantheon. Berlin, Oct. 3. Schultz and Viette, bankers, of Berlin, have been arrested on a charge of fraud. The liabilities are stated to be a million and a-half sterling. Oct. 4. The Army Bill secures Germany 00.006 additional men annually, besides 53 batteries of artillery. There will also be some increase of cavalry. St, Petursdcrg, Oct. 3. The Novoe Vreniya, which is Sliiskin’s organ, says that Russia is willing to grant concessions to England in Central Asia if Lord Rosebery is conciliatory ; otherwise she will oppose Mr Gladstone in the Balkans, Egypt, and Asia. Six Stundists, found converting peasants in Podolia to their sect, have, been sent to Siberia.

Vienna, Get. 4

Count Kalnoky informed the Austrian Chamber of Delegates that Mr Gladstone would continue Lord Salisbury's foreign policy. Austria is increasing her military expenditure by £SOO/400.

Son a, Get. 3

The Bulgarian Government lias agreed to permit the Russian schools in Bourgas to to be rc-oponed.

Calcutta, Oct. 2. The Ameer nas defeated the Haaars and captured U»uhaw,

General Lockhart has destroyed the villages of Huzzangi and captured the chiefs. Washington, Oct, 3, It is reported that the real murderer of Dr Cronin, a man named George Hegan, is a prisoner in Portland Oregon. Some navvies in Pennsylvania dynamited an Italian engineer named Sporati in his bedroom, and mutilated the body, in revenge for the imposition of fines and tyranny.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, Oct. 4,

The Medical Congress has closed.

The trial of the directors of the Australian Banking Company has begun. It is expected to occupy several days. The fire on board the British ship Brilliant in Darling harbour has been extinguished. With the exception of a twenty-two ton disappearing gun and a quantity of non-inflammable material, all the cargo has been discharged. The fire broke out amongst the dunnage wood, and a quantity of ropes and sails was destroyed. The damage has not yet been estimated, but is not likely to be large.