TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2424, 12 November 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN,

London, Nov. 7. The deatli is announced of Theodore Child, the traveller. It is suggested that the bankruptcy of Mrs C. S. Parnell is connected with the funds which are at present in the hands of the Parisian bankers. Captain Stavely Gordon, has married Annie Stafford, daughter of Sir Edward Stafford. Mrs Parnell has been made bankrupt on her own petition. The Arbitration Board appointed by the London Chambers of Commerce to investigate commercial disputes, will open on the 23rd inst. Mr Brandon, Shakespearian writer, is dead. It is rumoured that! Russsia will require £3.000,000 of gold from England within the next three weeks.

The Liberal Federation manifesto claims Home Rule for Ireland first, then labour, liquor traffic, and land reforms.

With reference to the paper read at the Colonial Institute by Sir Malcom Fraser, late Secretary of Western Australia, Mr Haynes, a pearler, declares that he has written to the Marquis of Ripon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, accusing Lord Knutsford, ex-Secretary for the Colonies, and Baron de Worms, exPolitical Secretary, of malfeasance in connection with the discriminative action against the British pealers. Mr Fitzgibbon, chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, has written to the newspapers indignantly repudiating the newspaper assertions that Melbourne and Ballarat were founded by a herd of ruffians. He strongly denounces the ignorance of London editors on colonial matters.

The Lord Mayor’s show was a very poor affair. In many parts of the city no bunting was displayed, and Mr Knill was hissed on several occasions. A procession of ultraProtestants was forbidden to follow the show.

The Duke of Marlborough was found dead in his bed. Heart disease was the cause of his death.

General Booth reiterates his appeal for £G5,000, otherwise he will have to sell the land secured for the “ Darkest England” scheme. He declares that he is unable to wait for the report of the committee of which Lord Onslow is a member. Further violent gales have been experienced in the Atlantic ocean, and several steamers are overdue. Paris, Nov. 9. The Radicals headed by M. Cleraenceau, are seeking an alliance with the Socialists. A number of convicts awaiting deportation to New Caledonia made an effort to escape from Rouen prison, and before the rising was suppressed had nearly strangled one of the warders.

Information has been received from Colonel Dobbs, comraander-in-chief of the French troops in Dahomey, to the effect that fierce fighting has taken in the vicinity of ICana and that the natives were defeated with heavy loss. The French had seven killed and sixty wounded. A suit respecting the Irish funds in the hands of the Paris bankers will be heard in a fortnight. Despatches from Dahomey state that the French troops, under Colonel Dodd, captured Cana with a loss of eleven killed and forty wounded* St. Pppßsoao. Nov. 9. Tl}o sHssian Note to Turkey states that the Government are willing to wait for the public arrears- qf the Turkish war indemnity, hut demand the immediate payment of private claims for compensation.

Eight vessels have been wrecked in the Black Sea, and the crews of three of them were drowned. Brussels, Nov. 9. Daring the evening the gendarmes charged and dispersed It mob In front of the King's Palace, Scenes of great excitement and tumult occurred t t Bo’' XE) Nov. g. The Ministry have a majority of over 200 at the elections. Costy. one of the leading Socialists, was defeated. Hong Kong, Nov. 9. Cholera has made its appearance in Japan. Buda Pesth, Nov. 9. Tisza is at the head of a movement In favour of the immediate declaration of obligatory civil marriage. The Szapurg Ministry and the Emperor are opposed to this proposal. The Hungarian crisis continues. Tisza has been sent for. Tangier. Nov. 8. It is rumoured that Count D’Aubigny French Consul, is proposing to the Sultan to enter into a Franco-Moorish offensive and defensive alliance, the terms of which are tantamount to a French protectorate. Capetown. Nov. 8. President Krueger, of the Transvaal, has announced that he will place foreigners on an equal footing with the Transvaal burghers within fourteen years.