TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2421, 5 November 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Nov. 1. The American Government are urging the release of Gallagher and other dynamiters. The Cabinet are at present discussing a Horae Rule scheme. It is reported that Lords Rosebery and Kimberley and Sir W. V. Harcourt claim that the Queen on the advice of the Imperial Government should have the power of vetoing laws passed by an Irish Parliament. The survivors of the Roumania make serious charges of negligence against the officers of the vessel. The President of the United States has accepted the English proposals to prohibit the sale of arms and spirits to the Pacific Islanders,

Mr McDonough, of San Francisco, has purchased Ormonde for £30,000, which is the highest sura on record ever paid for a horse. Lady Mabel Sutton informed a society paper that she jilted Lieut. Crosbie because he required the bulk of her fortune to be settled on himself. She has issued a writ for £75 lent to Crosbie after the Ascot meeting, Mr Gladstone has declined an invitation to the Lord Mayor’s banquet on the plea of his health. The action of Leader v. Smythe for the recovery of jewels is being heard in the Queen’s bench, and is exciting much attention in consequence of its remarkable similarity to Mrs Osborne’s case. The evidence shows that defendant, the wife of Major-General Smythe, accused her friend, the wife of Lieutenant Leader, of stealing and selling a diamond brooch. Mrs Leader asserts that the brooch was a present from a deceased officer. Hence the proceedings for slander. The editor of s The Morning has been fined £IOO, and the publisher £SO, for commenting on the case. An insane constable murdered two policemen, and a woman, and a child, in the Babrinadrinna police barracks, and then committed suicide.

Judgment was given to-day in the case in which it was sought to recover from one Maxwell, a Scotch farmer, the sum of £SOOO, on a cheque given to the Marquis of Ailesbury for losses at baccarat. The defence was that Maxwell was drunk when he signed the cheque. The Court upheld this view, and, believing that the Marquis was aware of Maxwell’s condition at the time, dismissed the case with costs. The cheque had been paid over to a third party, who brought the action to recover the amount. Nov. 3. The Imperial Federation League meets on the 10th instant to consider the suggestion of holding a colonial conference with respect to defences. Mr Arnold Morley, the Post-master-General, has definitely refused to renew the San Francisco mail contract. The Ameer is still acting in an evasive manner, and Lord Roberts’ mission is not likely to start for three months. The Times hesitates to believe that the Ameer is acting in an evasive manner, and trusts that if it is true he will be better advised. It adds that it is impossible to deceive the Indian Government by illusory excuses. One hundred and fifty-five of the municipal elections have been decided. The Liberals have gained 84 seats, and the Tories 59: whilst the labour representatives have carried Derby and Bradford.

The Marquis of Salisbury states that the Evicted Tenants’ Commission is unfairly constituted, and the reference tP the order appointing the commission involves untruths. The warship Horne struck a reef at Ferrol, in Spain, and is in a dangerous position, Paris, Nov. 1, A French Globe-trotter named Max Beule, writing to Le Correspondent, a Paris paper, describes the Melbourne people as a light and frivolous race, not destined for great things, although Melbourne, he thinks, will eventually become the capital of an independent Australia. The French troops have again routed the Dahomey army, capturing their defences on the river Kato, and encamping close to Kano. Nov. 3.

Information has been received that the Dahomeyan prisoners assert that 200 Europeans are directing the operations against the French. , Berlin, Nov. 1. The Emperor and Empress of Germany, and the Duke of' T ork took part in the ceremony of the reconstruction of the restored Schloss Kfrche at Wittenberg, containing the tombs',of Luther and Melancthon. There * was a gorgeens historical pageant in honour of the occasion. During the ceremony the Emperor drank from Luther’s cup, and expressed a hope that Germany would always remain a Protestant country. Brussels, Nov. 1.

The King of the Belgians has decided to open the Congo Free State to private enterprise. / Bucharest, Nov. 1. The Russian steamer Olga, not complying with the quarantine regulations in force at Sulina, a town on the bank of,the Danube, was fired on and captured by a Eournania gunboat. The* officers of the Olga exeused tfte&sejves on the ground that they

believed they were on an international highway. Vienna, Nov. 1,

During a panic in a church at Viengora, twenty-five of the congregation were trampled to death and many were injured. Hong Kong, Nov. 3. Fifty junks have been burnt at Ichang, and 200 lives lost. The Melbourne barque Maroon, bound from Chefoo to Goa Bay, has been been wrecked on the coast of Japan. The crew were rescued. Washington, Nov. 2.

The Democrats expect that in the election of the President, Mr Cleveland will have a majority of eight, but the supporters of President Harrison are very sanguine, and there is heavy wagering on his being returned. New York, Nov. 1. An immense sura of money has been subscribed in New York for the Presidential election. Nov. 3. Lieutenant Leary, who was leader of the expedition recently rescued in Greenland declares that it is possible to construct a railway anywhere on the ice in Greenland. The Tribune declares that the Democrats command a big corruption fund.

Mr Grover Cleveland claims to have 231 votes, including the solid South vote. General Harrison has 242 without New York, and it is believed that he is winning, San Francisco, Nov. 1,

Edward Livermarsh. a journalist of San Francisco, is being tried for murder at Santa Rosa. Pie was hypnotised in Court, and re-enacted the crime in detail to the astonishment of the Court. The defence is that he committed the crime while in a hypnotised condition.