TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2435, 8 December 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Nov. 22. At the meeting of the New Zealand Midland Railway Company the chairman said that the profit for the year was £2BOO. Of the land grant earned there remained unsold £27,000 worth. The Daily News states that England, Germany, and the United States, will conjointly restore order in Samoa. The Daily Chronicle says that the absentee evil is only in its infancy in Australia, and doubts whether a tax on land would raise much revenue. The Duke of Westminster, one of the trustees in the late Duke of Sutherland's estate, is applying for an injunction to prevent the dowager from selling heirlooms. The latter has published a pamphlet, exposing family secrets and accusing her stepchildren of hostility owing to her marrying their father. The children have replied that the pamphlet is a tissue of untruths. Mr Nelson, an Edinburgh publisher, has bequeathed £50,000 to the Workmen's Club in Edinburgh, and £20,000 to charities in the same city. The Atlantic liner Spree, outward bound, has . been towed back to Queensland with a broken shaft, and thirteen feet of water in her hold. She had 500 passengers on board. Mr Gladstone was presented yesterday with the freedom of Liverpool. Immense enthusiasm was shown. He said he believed the Manchester ship canal would be an enormous gain to Liverpool. The mails by the P. and O. Company's Himalaya reached London from Bombay in thirteen and a half days, which is the shortest time on record. It is reported that Mr Asquith, the Home Secretary, intends to introduce a Bill to amend the Employers Liability Act, and is conferring with the masters and men on the subject. Dec. 6. It is stated that the report of Lord Onslow's committee will be favourable to General Booth. Members find that there has been no wrongful use of money entrusted to the Salvation Army.

The signalman by whose nee'' induced by want of sleep the fatal railway accident as c a ' used< was convicted, of manslaughter. ' The Judjre iwerely directed that he should come up for sentence when called upon,

Mr Buchanan (Liberal), and Mr Russell (Unionist), have been nominated for the East Aberdeen seat.

The Spree, which was bound from Bremen,,to New York, broke her propelloi' 700 miles off the coast, and drifted about in a helples state for two days. The passengers, among whom was Mr Moody, the evangelist, were rescued by passing vessels. The Figaro has reported that the Grand Duke Sergius has given Mr Gladstone most pacific assurances that the Czar has no intention of settling the Eastern question with French assistance.

Paris, Dec. 5. The Behring Sea arbitrators meet in Paris at the end of February. Count D'Aubigny, French envoy to Morocco, has left Fez.

M. Perrier has failed to form a Ministry, and the President has summoned M. De Velle.

The police have delivered up to the Committee of Inquiry twenty-three of Baron Reitiach's cheques for the total of £30,000. There is no member of the Chamber of Deputies among payees, but a younger brother of President Grevy and M. Leon Renault, both senators, appear for 20,000 francs each. M. Cornelius Plerz received 2,000,000 francs (£80,000). All the accused allege that the money was received in payment of ordinary debts. Le Martin says that Germany is arranging a military alliance with Spain. Dec. 5. The anarchists threaten to destroy by dynamite the residences of English Judges who heard the charge against the Anarchist Francois and erdered his extradition to France.

All recipients of cheques from Baron Reinach deny that they were bribed. It i?i believed that in several instances the names of the real recipients were not disclosed, and that fictitious names were substituted. M. Charles de Lessops denies a statement that he sent an emissary to members of the committee on the Panama Lottery Loan Bill, offering them large of money to support the measure. The Radicals wish to suspend the work of the committee until the trial of the directors of the company is concluded.

M. Ribot has succeeded in forming a Ministry. M. Ribot will be Minister of Foreign Affairs ; M. Loubet, Minister of Interior; M. Bourgeois. Justice. The Cabinet is otherwise the same as M. Loubet's, except that M. Ricard, formerly Minister of Justice, and M. Roche, Minister of Commerce and Colonies, are excluded.

In the absence of the Government the Chamber voted " urgencj " for a Rill granting the Panama Canal Committee extensive judicial powers. Rome, Dec. o. Prince Ferdinand E'Este is to be sent abroad to prevent him contracting a morganatic marriage with a plebeian. Sofia, Dec. 6. Montenegro has quarrelled with Russia, and is making overtures to Bulgaria,

Vienna, Dec. 4. The Reichstag rejected Count Taafe's secret service fund. There is an impression in Vienna that the Czar, disgusted by recent events in France, is drawing nearer to Germany and Austria. Dec. 6. Louis Kossuth, the aged Hungarian patriot, is seriously ill. Belgrade, Dec. 4. The Servian Cabinet intend to resign owing to a dispute over the war budget. St. Petersburg, Dec. 4. It is reported that France is supplying Russia with 1,000,000 Lebel rifles. The Russian gunmakers are also increasing the output. Dec. 5. Parisian Anarchists are threatening the Czar. Russia is opposing the demand of Roumania and Bulgaria for permission for their warships to pass through the Dardanelles. Jewish merchants are to be excluded from Moscow unless they become converted. Twenty-three of those taking part in cholera riots in Saratov have been sentenced lo death. Cairo, Dec. 3. The Dervishes are massing in the neigl.oourhood of Dongola, and have si.ilightered many Egyptians. It is believed that Kalifa is planning an attack on Egypt. Calcutta, Dec. 4. The forces at Fort White are restoring order amongst the Chinese. The latter attacked a police patrol, killed three, and seized 4 their ammunition. The loyal Chitrals assembled and dethroned the usurper. > Hong Kojjg, Dec. 5. A fearful outrage has been committed by the Tonquin pirates. They captured eighty women and children, and imprisoned them in a cave, announcing that they would be set at liberty on the payment of a ransom bv their friends. The police sen *t in pursuit, and on the pirat^ g learning this they suffocated t ] \ e whole of the captive by bu*- u * ng "charcoal in the cave, th<\ en trance of which was sec arely closed. Yokohama, Dec. 4. The Japanese ship run down by the Ravenna was the Chismastill, despatch boat, of 7500 tons. The Ravenna, which rescued fourteen of the crew, including the captain, is being repaired at Nagasa. Ottawa, Dec. 4. The new Canadian Ministry is composed as follows :—Premier, Sir J. 8. Thompson ; Railways, Mr J. G. Haggart; Interior, Mr Daly: Trade, M. Bowell: Finance, Mr Gr. E. Foster ; Public Works, M. Quimet; Agriculture, M. Angers; Militia, Mr Patterson; Postmaster-General, Sir A. P. Carron; Customs, Mr Wallace; Solicitor-General, Mr Curran. Washington, Dec. 4. The lowest estimate of Mr Jay Gould's fortune is £12,000,000. His death flattened the stock market, which, however, soon regained firmness. Dec. o. Congress has voted funds tor further rain making experiments in Texas, New York, Dec. 3. News has been received from Mexico that President Diaz has been reelected,

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Dec. 5. The Government intend to make large reductions in the military estimates, in which they will be guided to a considerable extent by the report of the recent Commission. Melbourne, Dec. 5. The revenue for the first five months of the financial year shows a decrease of £189,000 as compared with the corresponding period of the previous year. Dec. 6. The body of a hospital patient will shortly be exhumed. There is a suspicion that the limbs found at Hawthorn were removed from it. The police have received an extraordinary letter from "a tramp," stating that the limbs recently fouud in the public park belonged to a fellow tramp who died of heart disease, and who requested his mate to chop his body to bits so as to render the holding of an inquest imposssible. The story, however, is discredited.

The trial of the directors of the Anglo-Australian Banking Company has begun. The Crown Prosecutor, in his opening address, stated that the institution started in 1880 with £B7 10s capital, but by means of fictitious transactions in land the accused made it appear that the bank had a paid up capital of £200,000, and a magnificent reserve fund. .Sir M. Davies has called a meeting of his creditors. It is understood that his unsecured liabilities consist mostly of unpaid call to companies. Mr Merry has issued a writ against Mr Shields, claiming £IO,OOO damages for detention of documents in the case of Merry i:ersan the Queen. Brisbane, Dec. 0. The Federal Council meets at Ilobart on January 26'th. Only (Queensland, Victoria, and Tasmania will be represented. Adelaide. Dec. o. The smallpox patient is in a critical condition.