TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2410, 11 October 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, Oct. 8. Mr Perceval has proposed to Mr Munro that New Zealand and Victoria shall take joint action to urge the British Government to enforce the provisions of the Margarine Act, which is now a dead letter. He thinks that the colonial butter trade would benefit if the Act were strictly carried out. The Rev. Mr French, speaking at a church, said that children in Victoria and New Zealand were ignorant of the Bible, and that unbelief was general. Oct 8. Thomas Woollier, R.A., sculptor, aged 66, is dead. Pie died from heart disease. The Very Rev. D. E. Bickersteth, Dean of Lichfield; aged 78, is dead. Lord Houghton, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, refused to accept an address from the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, supporting the union of the Empire, on the ground of its controversial character. Five skeletons have been found in the cellar of a house in Whitechapel. Captain Lugard, in a letter to the Times, states that the commercial, political, and philanthropic interests of Uganda, require its retention by the British. Evacuation, he considers, will increase slavery and anarchy, and lead to a massacre of Protestant Natives. The retention, Captain Lugard says, would be neither difficult nor expensive.

At the Anglican Church Congress an animated discussion took place on vivisection, during which Bishops Barry and Moorhouse attacked the system. The Bishop of Edinburgh declared disastrous results would follow if it was supposed that Bishops Barry and Moorhouse were the voice of the church in this matter. Dr Victor Horsley, F.R.S., attacked Bishop Barry with considerable warmth, and quite a scene was the result.

Paris, Oct. 8

The French troops routed the Dahomeyans at Ponguessa, killing 2000, Their own loss was only 19 killed and 22 wounded. The French oarsmen defeated the English crew in a two-mile race on the Seine by two and a-half lengths. The time was lOmin 25sec.

Harry Farman, an Englishman, has won the French bicycle championship, The remains of the late Joseph Erneste Renan, the great French philologist, were temporarily interred to-day, at Montmarte. The principal official, literary, artistic, and scientific gentlemen in Paris attended. M. Bourgois, the Minister of Education, and others delivered orations,

The King of Dahomev i eu - nis troops In the recent engagement with the French. The Amazons penetrated *C within ten paces of the French guns, and large numbers were killed. The army has fled in a northerly direction, leaving their ammunition behind. The French troops are now marching on Abomey. Berlin, Oct. 8. Count Starheinburg, an Austrian, completed the ride from Berlin to Vienna in 71 hours 34 minutes, and secures the first prize and a silver bust of the Emperor of Germany, presented by the latter. Baron Reitzenstein, a German, finished the journey in 73 hours 6 minutes, notwithstanding that he was lost in a fog for a time. He takes second prize and a statuette presented by the Emperor of Austria. Lieutenant Mikloss, an Austrian, who took 73| liours, was third. The next fourteen to finish were all Austrians. Altogether sixty-five horses died from exhaustion. Starhember, an English thoroughbred, was one of those who died. Reitzernsteinst, an Irish thoroughbred, recovered. PJerr Lowey, a banker, has been sentenced to two and a-half years' imprisonment for fraudulent bankruptcy. St. Petersburg, Oct. 7. Colonel Yanoff is reported to be training Kirghiz for service in the army. Calcutta, Oct. 6. Tlie Black Mountain Expedition have captured an important stronghold of the malcontents, and it is believed that the campaign is ended. New York, Oct. 7. For assaulting white girls in Tennessee a negro was tried by h'law and riddled with bull*"*". News from v i "V * u ~ P , . enezuela states that J * . Crespo is demanding the surrender of Caracas, and there is a panic in the capital. Oct. 8. News lias been received that General Crispo has occupied Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. The President and his Ministers have abandoned the country.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, Oct. 7. The new Electoral Bill introduced into the Legislative Assembly provides for the reduction of the number of members of House from 137 to 125. The electorates are to be defined by a Commission on similar lines 1o those adopted by New Zealand and there is to be periodical distribution every ten years, or when the population increases 33 per cent, at intervals of five years. Paupers, criminals, aliens and lunatics are to be disqualified.

All elections will take place on one day. Nomination proceeding, and deposit with the nomination paper have been abolished.

Oct. 8. Mr Bruce, of the Stock Department, who represents New South Wales at the Triennial Stock Conference to be held in Wellington at the latter end of this month, has been instructed to report on the frozen meat and dairy industries in New Zealand. Melbourne, Oct. 7. Prato, the negro charged with being accessory to the murder of Cornwall a farmer at Warracknabeal, for which Mrs O'Brien was sentenced to death, hasJ^Rjicx[uitted^a.-~^■■:*■ Adelaide, Oct. 7. The Butter Bonus Bill which provides for the payment of a bonus of 2d per lb on butter in quantities of not less than oOOlbs, has passed through committee in the Legislative Assembly.