TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2440, 20 December 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN,

London, Dec. 12,

It is understood that the Monetary Conference will submit a vague report and adjourn till May. The fire in the colliery at Ranfurling, in Wigan, has been controlled. Many of those entombed were found in a comatose state, and have since recovered. The manager of the mine was believed to be dead, but on being placed in the mortuary he moved and sighed, and restoratives being used he was resuscitated. The miners of distant workings and the explorers are thoroughly exhausted. The full list of casualties is uncertain.

The Liberal members of the House of Commons have demanded that parish councils should have security of tenure, abolition of entail, and the revision of taxation. Lohmann, the well-known professional cricketer, has been ordered to pass the winter in Australia or at the Cape. Lady Abdy’s petition for divorce was dismissed. Bentiz swore she had never seen either petitioner or her husband till the trial. Abdy says his wife is insane. Miss Maude’s term of imprisonment is three months. - Dec. 16. The decision in the South Meath election petition, unseating Mr P. Fullam, was that his election was due to clerical influence. Mr Michael Davitt did not wish to contest the case, preferring to leave on a lecturing tour in Australia, but the Court decided that they must hear the evidence. The evidence showed that Bishop Nulty’s pastoral, which was claimed to have been divinely inspired, declared that it was impossible for a Parnellite to be a Roman Catholic. It was also elicited that a priest struck two old women who were averse to Mr Davitt’s candidature. The evidence created a sensation in court. Florence Bethell received the Rutzen Prize at the Royal Academy of Music.

Archbishop Vaughan will be created a Cardinal in January.

An explosion occurred in the coal bunkers of the Orient steamer Ophir at Tilbury, by which a man was killed. The trial of Hobbs, contractor, and Wright, solicitor, on charges of having fraudulently received moneys of the Liberator Permanent Building Society is creating a sensation. The advances made to Hobbs by the society exceed £2,000,000. Numbers of important books are missing. Wright was the moving spirit in the various businesses of the society. The Post Office officials have impounded £30,000 sent in connection with “ Missing Word ” puzzles. M. Waddington, French Ambassador in London, at his own request retires from the position. Paris, Dec. 15. The Chamber of Deputies by a majority of six has refused to grant the Panama Canal Committee judicial powers. MM. Ribot and Bourgeois have professed their desire to loyally assist the committee, but consider that the powers demanded endanger the Republic, as a deep-laid scheme existed to launch a torrent of mud at the Republic under pretext ot exposing individual misdoing. M. Brisson contended that the committee ought to be armed with peculiar powers, and the debate in the Chamber resolved into a struggle between MM. Ribot and Brissons. The former earned the Chamber at first, but influence was wanted, and many stormy scenes were the result. At the Panama inquiry committee M. Rouvier stated that the late Baron Reinch had said to him, “ I am lost, but MM. Grevy, Freycinet, and Constans are implicated.” A Republican defence committee has been formed. Emile Lemoume, the well-known writer, is dead. News from Dahomey states that King Behanzin is at the head of twenty thousand troops, and threatens to resume war on the ground that the French are violating their agreement. He offers to cede Whydah to England. Dec. 18. MM. Charles De Lesseps and Foutaiuo, directors of the Panama Canal Company, have been arrested on a charge of corrupting public functionaries. M. Ferdinand De Lesseps was spared, owing to his age. M. Cotter has fled to Vienna. M. Sans Leroy, member of the Chamber of Deputies, is charged with having been bribed to vote in favour of the Lottery Loan Bill. All the above are imprisoned. The arrests have cause profound sensation. Domiciliary visits to fh® prisoners’ residences resulted in the seizure of important documents. Madrid, Dec. 16. Eight dynamite bombs have been discovered in Cadiz. Rome, Dec. 16. The Pope declares Freemasonry satanic, and asserts that it aims at replacing Christianity by naturalism. Berlin, Dec. 15. The Reichstag has granted Ahlwart, who was sentenced to five months’ imprisonment for slandering Jewish rifle makers, immunity from imprisonment on the ground that ho is a member of the Reichstag. Dec. 18. Not one twentieth of the members of Reichstag support the Army Bill. In the Reichstag a Bill, subsiding a Gei’mau mail service to New Guinea to the extent of £lffiooo annually, instead of the Samoan service, has been introduced. Brussels, Dec. IG. The Committee informed the Monetary Conference that they considered it inexpedient to submit a scheme embodying the proposals which had been suggested. Considei’able discussion ensued, during which the United States, and several other delegates angrily attacked the British representative for tlxe Hostility they had shown to the proposals. Calcutta, Dec. 15. Captain Presgrove, of the British forces, who is operating against the Chins on the Burmah frontier, has been very successful, and many of the latter were killed. Achtar wishes the British officer to foiTiially install him iq Ohitral. The usux-per has lied to, the Afghan camp. Han Francisco, Dec. 18. Information lias been received that the volcano of Mauna Loa, in the Sandwich Islands* is in violent eruption.