TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2417, 27 October 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Oct. 23. The Eev. Mr Boynes, Canon of Twickenham, was sentenced to eighteen months' for criminally assaulting two girls. Sir C. G. Duffy, in an interview with a representative of the Daily Chronicle, said that the Irish must have the control of the Customs, and that in the establishment of protection would not consent to exclude Ulster.

Oct. 24. The Duke of Roxburgh, aged 53, is dead.

The contest for Searle's cup has collapsed, as only George Bu bear entered. It is officially announced that Her Majesty the Queen will spend the winter in Florence, in Bientina (11 miles from Pisa, near the bed of the lake Bientina, now drained.

At a meeting in Cork of the Landlords' Defence Union, complaints were made of an increase of boycotting outrages, and the outlook for the winter is gloomy. The Times, commenting on the constitution of the Legislative Councils, says that the anomalies in Australasia are starting, and go far to prove that England is lamentably deficient in the science of constitution-making, and that there is little doubt the tendency in the colonies is to wipe away nominated Chambers. Referring to the motion tabled in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales by Sir H. Parkes, the Times says that it is evident that any demand for elective Legislative Councils would meet with the immediate response of the Imperial Government. The same paper states that another International Conference on Federation is afloat, and thinks that practical results may be reached. The Times goes on to say that the financial crisis has toned down Australian arrogance, and that Sir G. Dibbs has recognised the indefensible policy of the past, and is adopting wiser methods for the present. The Times' Rome correspondent wires that the Vatican, having finally alienated the French Royalists, is now alarmed. High clerics say that the Pope has lost his head.

A bitter controversy is proceeding through the columns of the Times between Dr Victor Horsley, F.R.S.. Bishop Barry, and others, on the subject of vivisection. Sir Henry James, Mr Sidney Buxton, and Mr Walter Long, will assist Lord Onslow to investigate General Booth's social scheme. It is pointed out that in 1888 Lord Salisbury acquiesced in the right of Russian vessels to follow and seize sealers pursuing their occupation outside the limit. Paris, Oct. 23. Despatches from Dahomey state that Colonel Dodds is preparing to again engage the Dahomeyans in a battle. The French troops are 2000 strong, and the Dahomeyans number 6000, including the King's bodyguard. Oct. 24. Intelligence is to hand that the Dahomeyans have ceased energetic resistance to the French troops in the open. The Flemish Societies have forwarded a protest to President Carnot against the abuses of the new French tariff, and assert that Belgian workmen do not desire closer relations with France, fearing the annexation of Belgium to that country. Berlin, Oct. 26. The Emperor William celebrated the birth of his daughter by liberating four hundred female prisoners. Oct. 24. Under the new Army Bill, the strength of the German Army will be 4,400,000 men. The peace footing of the German army is to be increased by 84,000 men. German officials are secretly enquiring into the opinions of Socialist soldiers, The Vossische Zeitung protests against the severe treatment to which Socialists are subjected, and says that harsh measures will not convince them of their errors.

Owing to the cholera epidemic the Prussian railways lost £300,000 in revenue. Rome, Oct. 24. A train carrying the outward Australian mail became derailed in Pescaro, and a delay of two hours took place. The floods in Sardinia continue, and five villages in the vicinity of Sanaperote are submerged. Several hundreds o? people have been drowned, and thousands of sheep and cattle lost. Six thousand people have boon rendered homeless by the Sardinian floods. Tlie survivors describe the shrieks of the victims as something terrible. Large tracts of • fertile country have. bop", converted into lafcosi. Vienna, Oct. 24. The Archduke Franz Ferdinand d'Esfce (the Emperor's grandson) will begin his tour of the world in November, when he leaves for India and Singapore, in the torpedo ram Caiserin Elizabeth. After closing the Australian tour in Sydney he visits the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and New Guinea, and goes thence to China. St. Petersburg, Oct. 22. The Sviet claims the Hindoo Coosh as the Russian frontier in Asia, and says that Russia is quite able to settle the Pamir dispute wilhout reference to England. New York. Oct. 2:>. A railway bridge new Evansville, in Indiana, was sot on fire in order to wreck the trian by which a number of Republican negroes, who wore to attend a meeting in the city, were travelling. Fortunately the engine driver was warned in time, and he managed to stop the train just before it reached the burning bridge.

During the Columbus Celebration at Los Angelos, in California, a quantity of fireworks accidentally exploded, killing three persons, and fatally injuring nine others. Oct. 24.

The insanity of the captain of tho Russian warship Xabiaka, who seized the Canadian sealers off Copper Island, has been confirmed. American vessels wore seized under similar circumstances, but restored, and the mistake admitted. An impression is held in the United States that there is a secrot understanding botweoen Russia and Japan respecting the treatment of sealers in Bearing Sea.

Ottawa. Oct. 24. The successful visit of a British warship to Vladivostock, for the rescue of sealing vessels and crews, met with great enthusiasm in Canada. Calcutta, Oct. 24. The Chins in Burmah are destroying roads for the purpose of obstructing the advance of the British reinforcements. San Francisco, Oct. 24. Advices from China state that the river Hangho has broken its banks, and 50,000 people have been drowned. It is feared that the disaster will result in famine, and that quite a million will die of starvation.