TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2442, 24 December 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, Dec. 12.

The will of the late Lord Tennyson has been lodged. The estate is valued at £5700 realty, and £2500 personalty. During the hearing of the North Meath election petition evidence was tendered to show that Bishop Nulty advocated pupils breaking the skulls and limbs of the supporters of the Parnellite candidates. The Marquis of Salisbury has been prosecuted in the Police Court on a charge of owning a house in a delapidated condition, unfit for habitation. The court ordered the building to be removed. The Times says that Great Britain will watch closely the next session of New Zealand’s experimental legislation. Dec, 21, The Union Company’s (London) steamer Nubian, of 1994 tons, bound for the Cape, struck a rock at the entrance to Lisbon harbour during a fog and sank. The passengers 100, and crew 95, were rescued. The Marquis of Aylesbury is paying 7s 6d in the £. The Globe states that Sir Y. Harcourt Chancellor of the Exchequer, is pressing the Admiralty to adopt a policy of retrenchment, and to. largely reduce the number of men. It is believed that the position of Commandant of the Forces in Ireland has been offered to Lord Roberts. The late Lord Tennyson bequeathed his manuscripts to his son Hallam, and a life income to his widow. It is reported that the Shah o' Persia is seriously ill. The petition against the return of Mr F, Isaacson, Conservative, for the Stepney seat, was dismissed. Berlin, Dec. 21.

Baron Hirsch’s annual report shows that a total of 330,000 acres were purchased in the Argentine Republic, of which 180,000 acres are now under cultivation and settled by upwards of 1000 families. The report ‘makes no reference to a project which was on foot to found a colony in Australia.

Dec, 22

A fresh outbreak of cholera has occurred in Hamburg, and the epidemic is again spreading throughout the city at an alarming rate.

Buda Pesth, Dec, 20,

Owing to the introduction of the Zone system on the Hungarian railways, the number of passengers carried has increased by 22,000,000, and the receipts by £2,500,000. St. Petersburg, Dec. 21.

The Grand Duke Nicholas Constana Tuiovich, the Czar’s cousin, is charged with poisoning General Beranock at Taschkend, and the enquiry is proceeding

Dec. 22.

The Czar proposes to act jointly with France in regard to the proposed alteration in the Bulgarian constitution, and has advised the Great Powers not to recognise Prince Ferdinand’s proposals. Washington, Dec. 22.

The committee appointed to enquire into immigration has ascertained that during 1891 200,000 Italian Socialists arrived in the United States.

Mr Foster, Secretary of tne Treasury, states that the balance of trade is in favour of the nation, and that the revenue is four millions per mouth. Stocks are firm.

Ottawa, Dec. 22.

The Montmorency Falls in Quebec have been sold to a sydnicate for the purpose of producing electric power. New York, Dec. 20.

Mr J. G. Blaine is again seriously ill,

A syndicate in Colorado sold l}qteh. emigrants 15,000 acres, It Yfas prgteqded to he under the patronage of Government, Eight hundred Dutch emigrants went there, but found that the whole thing was a swindle, and that the Government were merely offered the option of purchase. Many of the new arrivals are in a destitute condition, and the public are subscribing a loan to assist tlw aet%. inent,

Dec. 21

One of the officials at Carnegie’s works at Homestead declares that of the 4000 free labourers employed there, 2000 are prostrated from the effects of poison placed in their food by the cook, and that thirty-two are dead.

AUSTRALIAN GARDE.

Sydney, Dec. 21

Mr C. H. Reid, leader of the Opposition, moved a vote of censure on the Government to-night and the debate is proceeding. It is expected to conclude on Friday. At a further inquest in connection with the baby-farming cases, the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against John and Sarah Makin, and the prisoners were committed for trial,

The prphihitiop against the importation of sheep from. New Zealand will be removed as soon as the new regulations are issued,

Dec. 22,

Ross, and seven others who were concerned in the boxing match in which Stewart, the pugilist, was killed, have been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter. The jury added a rider, expressing an opinion that persona responsible for allowing glove contests were deserving of the severest censure. Ross was Stewart’s opponent, and the other defendants were proprietors of the hall, seconds and officials.

The Hon, Daniel O’Connor, M.L.C., has sequestrated his estate and resigned his seat in the Council. His liabilities are set down at £30,000, and his assets at £36,000. A young man named John Wright, living at Tichbourn, near Parkes, shut his sweetheart, Annie Wyjip, and then committed suicide. Miss Wylie’s wound ip not Bkejy to prove fatal. Jealousy was the cause of the act. Melbourne, Deo. 21. The Colonial Treasurer has Introduced a Bill in the Legislative Assembly to release £750,000 by the issue of Treasury bills, payable in three, four, and five years, at per cent. He stated that the estimate made in July last has been completely falsified owing to the imprecedental shrinkage in the purchasing power of the people. For the first five months of the financial year the revenue Iwd fallen short of the estimate by

£407,000 including the railway receipts, which were £192,000 under the estimate. It was not opportune at present to impose fresh taxation. The Bill was passed through all its stages. Adelaide, Dec. 21. The second innings of the New South Wales eloveu closed for 140, South Australia thus winning the match by 67. Dec. 22. Mr Munro, Agent-General of Victoria, on passing here, declined to be interviewed, stating he was practically on a holiday trip. Twelve of the crew of the barque Samenerell, bound from Rio de Janeiro to Port Chalmers, have been sentenced to twelve weeks’ imprisonment for refusing to obey the lawful commands of the captain. The men asserted that the vessel was not seaworthy.