TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2439, 17 December 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, Dec. 12. The site of Milbank prison is to be offered for sale by auction. The petition in connection with the Finsbury election is simply one for a scrutiny of votes. Many alien votes will be disallowed, and the contest is now regarded as very close. Messrs Lipman and &c, of Dundee, jute merchants, have failed, with liabitities amounting to £250,000. The proprietors of Pick Me Up have been fined 10s for a breach of the Lottery Act, and it is expected that this decision will stop all missing words competition. Sir John Barnard Burke, LL.D, and Miss Beckwith, the well-known swimmer, are dead. ...,. ~.

[ The man who- wantonly shot at and ! assaulted Miss Wood, niece of Mr Goschen, and Miss Phelbrick, in August last, has been pronounced insane and ordered to be confined in the lunatic asylum at the Queen's pleasure. William Watson, the poet, stopped the carriage in which the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh were driving in Windsor Park. He has since been placed in close confinement as a dangerous lunatic unfit to be at large. Mr Gladstone has convened a meeting of the Cabinet to consider the granting of autonomy to Ireland. Lord Rosebery expresses himself confident that the Government will be able to secure the adoption of a Home Rule policy. A petition against the return of Mr W. Redmond for the East Clare seat has beendismissed.

The War Office will nominate General Hewitt, late director of the Military Collego at .Kingston, as successor to Major-General Richardson, late Commandant of the New South Wales forces.

An explosion has occurred in a colliery at Banfuling, in Wigan. One hundred men are entombed in the mine.

The petition against Dadabhai Naoroiji's return for Finsbury has been withdrawn.

Paymaster Rice Harris, of H.M.S. Nymph, has been sentenced to 18 months' hard labour for falsifying the accounts and stealing £2OOO. Mr Balfour, addressing the National Union and Tory societies at Sheffield, declared that there was no possibility of Home llnle passing. He referred to the enormous difficulty presented by the social questions of the day, and urged a judicious middle course in their treatment.

Lady Abby is suing for a judical separation on the grounds of her husband's adultery with Madame Brentiz. Mr Aloxander, oi the firm of Redfern, Alexander and Co., colonial merchants, who recently suspended payment, has passed his e tamination before the Bankruptcy Court. He admitted that" his firm lost the sum of £210,000 in the past ten years, and that he personally lost £30,000 on the Stock Exchange. Sheridan, a pauper in Lambeth Workhouse, has inherited a legacy of £250,000. The losses of the P. and O. Company bv the wreck of the Bokhara are estimated at £200,000 Dec. 15. Bishop Selwyn will probably be created a prelate of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Fourteen bodies havo been recovered from the Ranfurling mine in Wigan, and it is feared that they wiH find dozens more, Gyneth Maude, daughter of an officer of high rank, ha 3 been convicted on a charge of obtaining goods from Spinks, the well-known jewellers, and others, by means of false pretences, and sent to St. John's Home, Fulham. When the the charges were first brought to light it was alleged that the crime had been ■■ instigated by her mother, who, on the daughter's arrest committed suicide in the City Hotel, where the family were residing. The explosion in the colliery at Ranfurling, in Wigau, originated in the engiue-houae, ana stopped the ventilation of the mine. It is feared that all those entombed have been killed. Those engaged in the work of rescue are not working long in the atmosphere, which is most suffocating. Paris, Dec. 11. Gaulois publishes what are alleged to be the details of Baron Reinach's last hours, In those, it is stated, he swallowed poison owing to the Panama prosecution. M. Rouvier has resigned because of his connection with the Panama Canal Company. The French newspapers declare that Baron Reinach committed suicide after asking vainly MM. Rouvier, Clemenceau and Her/ to use their influence with the press not to attack him. The press accuse M. Rouvier of accepting bribes in connection with the Panama Canal Lottery Bills.

The Cuminittce of the Chamber of Deputies by a largo majority supported the Bill confering judical and stringent punitive powers on. the Panama Canal Committee. M. Bourgeois, the newMinister of Justice, strongly opposed the measure, but his arguments were of no avail.

M. Rouvier explained that he resigned owing to the suggestion of the Press that he was implicated with Baron Ruinaoh, whereas he had only in a spirit of humanity tried to servo the man whose honor and lift) were at utaku, There was groat uproar in the Chamber owing to the insulki levelled at Ai. Rouvier by the Bouluugists, but the majority accepted his .statements.

The committee engaged inquiring into the scandals connected with the Panama Canal Company to-day examined MMRouvier, Clemencau, and Constats, but elicited nothing ne\y beyond the fact that Baron. Reinaoh was a party to criminal acts of bribery, and that he had threatened suicide.

The doctors who made the autopsy on the remains of Baron Reinach discovered traces of atrophine in the body. The scandal is believed to be weakening the Cabinet, and also the position of tho President and the Republic.

M. Herz has written to the Panama Canal Committee stating that sickness preuented his personal attendance, but oilers to supply the committee with all information \i\ his possession. It is reported that President Carnot is au.vious to resign, as ho complains that liis Ministers are feeble and not willing U> wilrc »uiy sswUiw.

The Rothschilds have Bent to Russia £5,000,000 worth of gold since September. In the Reichstag the Liberals decline to sanction the Army Bill, and warn the Chancellor against dissolving Parliament a,i they fear th it w.juld excite the couutry on a dangerous (jue^tion. Berlin, Dec. 13.

Prince Bismarck, in the course of an interview with a Parisian journalist, is reported to have suggested an alliance between France and Germany, and the latter inducing war between Russia and England over the Balkans. Prince Bismarck in the course of an interview with a Parisian journalist declared that in the event of a FrancoGerman war, Russia would hurry her fleet to the Mediterranean. He urged France to content herself with the great African empire. St. Petersburg, Dec. 13.

The Russian Press urges that the timo is opportune to strike England, to settle the Dardanelles question on the Indian frontier. The death rate in Russia from cholera 1 amounts to 2500 per week. Dec. 15. A high Russian officer has been murdered at Kieff, and the outrage is attributed to the Nihilists. Since the outbreak of cholera there have been 550,000 cases in Russia of which 2!i0,000 were total. Brussels, Dec. 14. M Fouville, French delegate at the Monet.-try Conference, proposes that wa'T.iuts be issued against the deposits of silver in a similar manner to that HLj.unst the deposits of Glasgow pig iron. Most of the delegates favor the proposal. The British delegates have asked for an adjournment of the Monetary Conference, and it is considered that the request will be agreed t ■», the Conference to meet again in May. Street fighting has occurred at Ghent, 30 socialists and 5 police being wounded. Bucharest, Dec. 13.

Prince Ferdinand of Roumania is betrothed to Princess Marie of Edinburgh. She agreeing to the children being educated in the Catholic Faith the Pope will grant a dispensation for the marriage. Sofia, Dec. 14.

The Bulgarian Chamber of Deputies is pledged to support Prince Ferdinand's proposed alterations in the constitution. Calcutta, Dec. 13.

A report has reached here that the Nizam has recaptured Chitral, and that Azful, the usurper, has fled. Ottawa, Dec. 13.

Canadian Liberals, have presented the National Liberal Club with a portrait of Mr Gladsione.

Dec. 14. The Quebec Ministry has resigned. Washington, Dec. 13.

The Committee of the Chicago Fair have asked Mr Gladstone to attend and deliver an address at the opening of the exhibition.

Dec. 14. The President proposes to place an ironclad carrying four fifty-ton guns on the Lakes.

It is rumored in Washington that the Monetary Conference now sitting at Brussels will shortly adjourn till March. New York, Dec. 13. Jav Gould's executors swear that he left 72,000,000 dollars. News is received that a thousand Yaquin Indians have opened war on the whites in Mexico and are burning homesteads. A wealthy Spaniard and his two Bons have been killed besides six others. Five hundred soldiers have been sent in pursuit of the Indians. Dec. 14.

Mr Armour, the Chicago " pork king," has donated the sum of £300,000 to the Science and Art Institute.