TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2419, 1 November 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Oct. 23. The Marquis of Salisbury, in a letter to the Press, says that the late Government always contemplated retaining Uganda. Whether the British East Africa Company remained was a question for them to decide. Queen Victoria has Sent a wreath to be placed on Mrs Harrison’s coffin. Archbishop Croke hopes that the dynamiters will shortly be released. The Marquis of Salisbury, in the National Revier, contends that the real question of autonomy, for Ireland was not decided by the election. Additional safeguards will be required for a constitution providing new machinery by which the wish of the nation may be determined. General Edwards agrees with the ■ report of the New South Wales Defence Commission that that colony requires the nucleus of permanent artillery and submarine miners. He urges that if the report of the Commission is adopted the saving effected should be applied to improving the land forces. He considers that local defence of Australia is not absolutely necessary, but it is essential that England should command the seas. Sir J. Lubbock, addressing the Chamber of Commerce, declared that

the suffering of United States residents owing to the McKinley tariff was greater than that of the English people, and that its introduction had been disastrous to the lumber, barley, and tinplate industries. The tariff, he thought, could not long be maintained. Oct. 2'J. Terrific gales were experienced in the Atlantic, with seas said to have been the heaviest known. The Bishop of Chichester states that the annual cost of a protectorate over Uganda would only be £40,000, an amount which, he points out, is about equal to the cost of a picture or two in the National Gallery. Sir W. V. Harcourt will act as the Premier’s deputy when the latter cannot attend in the House of Commons. The Investors’ Review thinks that the worst is over in the colonies, and that there is still time for Victoria to return to virtuous courses. In any case her losses will compel her to mend her ways. The immediate future does not look black anywhere else.

Cabinet meetings have begun. Several papers report that dissension has occurred among the Ministry on the Uganda question. Lord Rosebury is at the head of the section who opposes the evacuation of Uganda. Mr Gladstone has abandoned his intention of going abroad, but proposes to appear in the House of Commons only on occasions of important business.

Members of the Parnell party accept the suggestion of Archbishon Croke, that the funds deooD-'- 1 • r Paris banks j - the tU , ~ released and placed m —e custody of three independent trustees pending division. Lord Onslow speaking at Guilford referred to the Premier of New Zealand once having been an itinerant vendor; the Minister of Defence, a working miner; and the Minister of Lands, a shepherd ; yet all were fully impressed with the responsibilities of their position, and anxious to do their duty in the administration of the affairs of the Empire.

Mr Perceval, in an interview with the Marquis of Ripon and Mr T. Buxton, both of the Colonial Office, strongly condemned the attitude of the Postmaster General in refusing the subsidy to the San Francisco mail service. Both gentlemen promised to use their influence with the Treasury in the direction desired. The Queen has engaged the Empress Eugenie’s villa in Florence for the spring. Paris, Oct. 27. The French troops operating against the Dahomeyans are using the Lebel rifle. After the first few rounds had been fired the fusilade became simply an indiscriminate slaughter, the effect being similar to explosive bullets. Trees even did not shield the men. The dead were burned in a pyre. Berlin, Oct. 27. The English remedy for cholera, consisting of perioxate crystals, cured Do per cent, of the cases in the seamen’s hospital at Hamburg. Oct. 28. T 1 ie Colonial Council in Berlin recommend an increase of troops in German East Africa, to ensure good relations with the native chiefs, and to develope the colony. Vienna, Oct. 28. The citizens of Lemberg, the capital of Galicia. poisoned the mayor, because of the stringent measures which were taken to prevent the introduction of cholera. St. Pktkrsurg, Oct. 28.

Women belonging to the Stundist sect are outrageouly treated at Bkivera, in South Russia. The edict of repression is being severely carried out, and sentries are placed to watch the men at every hour of the day. Calcutta, Oct. 28. The Ivurat tribes are submitting to the Ameer. Nzw York, Oct. 27. The Mexicans have suppressed the Indian vising in El Paszo country, on the border of Texas. The wliole tribe was annihilated and 010 troops killed,

The United States warship Mohican, struck the rocks in Behring Sea, and will probably be condemned.