TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2436, 10 December 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, Nov, 22Lord Brassey explains that his station in Western Australia is at present unfit as a settlement for General Booth’s oversea colony. The New Zealand Association has shipped twenty-eight Lincoln rams to the Waikato. The Australians will play four matches against All England; at Nottingham, June 26; Lord’s, July 2; the Oval, August 14; and Manchester, August 24. A lawyer’s clerk in Edinburgh named Alexander Smith has been arrested on a charge of forging a large number of letters alleged to be by Burns, Macaulay and Scott. Some had been sold at enormous prices. Mr Justice Collins fined Sir Henry Tichborne, high sheriff, five hundred guineas for being absent from the Winchester assizes. He is shooting in Africa. The Anglo-Portuguese Delimitation Commission in East Africa has failed. Bishop Charles Wordsworth, aged 86, is dead. Heavy snow has fallen in Invernessshire and Monmouthshire, and railway communication is suspended An unconfirmed rumour of mercantile j crises in Melbourne and Sydney has i greatly disturbed the city. Dec, 7.

Homo uneasiness is felt about C ganda in consequence of Captain Williams returning to the coast ill, and leaving the country iu charge of a junior. The Canadian athletes are taking objection to Americans being allowed to compete iu the Pan-Britamiic contests. Mr Astley Cooper, the original promoter of the competitions, proposes that the winner of the British and colonial contests should compete against the Americans. Obituary.—Dr Werner Siemens, the well-known electrician of Hanover, estate 7G ; also Fred Leslie, Gaiety actor, of London. A Norweign b.trque has been wrecked on the Mersey bar, and eighteen of those on board were lost. Vo tender was received for 175,000 tons steel rails ij be mnnnfactured in New South Wales, 'there is an impression that ironmasters fear labour struggles, and also the uncertainty of protection in that colony lasting. Paris, Dec. 7. The Panama Committee have elicited evidence showing that Baron Keiuach applied large sums of the Canal Company’s money to the payment of his own debts. Madrid, Dec. S. Sencr Canova’s Cabinet has resigned in consequence of the Madrid municipal scandals. St. Petersburg, Dec. 8. Several outrages by brigands are reported from Poland. One family of six was murdered and robbed in a village hotel. The murderers have been, arrested,

Dec. 8. China claims the whole of Alickar, Pamir, and the Chinese Minister at St. Petersburg states that his Government will consider any euroachment by Russia very seriously. Zaxzikak, Dec. 7. The massacre of the Paanatan?** ex podition, commanded by j ' is confirmed, - ’ Mortal, commissioner in Uganda, . ue escorted to Lake Nyanza by five hundred of the Sultan of Zarzibar’s soldiers. Takgikk, Dec. S. The English commercial mission is ■proceeding from Tangier to Fez. Gaiko. Dec. 8. The Mahdi has sent a force to attack Kassalla and to reinforce Osman Digna, who is supposed to be meditating an attack on Tokar. Calcutta, Dec. G. The Chitral tribesmen attacked the K.assamere regiment in the British camp at Gor, but were repulsed with the loss of fifty, and pursued for miles. Washington, Doc. 7. The President in his message to Congress declares that the prosperity of the country is unprecedented, and that wages were never so high. He claims that this is duo to protection. The differences with Germany and England regarding Samoa have been adjusted, and ! also the Behring Sea dispute. The j message reiterates the belief"that Couj gress will have to face the question of free coinage. If the Canadian opposition continues it will be necessary for the United States to secure outlets to the seaboard in dependent of the Canadian railways and the St. Lawrence, and if necessary to combat Canada by means of competition in the Pacific and China Mail Service. A Bill has been introduced into Con- ! gross to suspend immigration into the ! United States for one year. There is a strong demand from the manufacturers in the United States that Mr Cleveland, President-elect, should call an extra session of Con gw ss, so that the Tree Wool Bill should be passed without delay . Dec. 8. The Government intend to ask the British Government to permit private j persons building warships on the shores i of Lake Ontario, and to abrogate tho treaty of 180 G. The United States Government have declared their intention of repealing the Act providing for the purchase of .silver. Cai'ictowx. Dee. G. The Boers are treking in German South West Africa. The Tongariro left to-day for Hobart and Wellington.