TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2449, 10 January 1893, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN, S London, Jan, 4. Mr Jaboz Spencer Balfour, who i . mixed up with several institutions whic recently suspended payment, has left th country. Sir Arthur Gordon, formerly Hig' Commissioner of the Western Pacific, i: j a letter to the Times, favours ludiai coolies being employed in Queensland ■j instead of Kanakas, since recruitinj deranges and ultimately destroys th b communal village life of the Pacifi Islands, resulting in the extinction of th islanders. He declares that when th j supply of labour dwindles the colonist are not likely to prove to watchful ove the abuses, and that it would be safer i the supervision of recruiting was confine( to the Imperial Government. The prospect of floating H.M.S. How is very remote. Mr F. Milledge, late manager of the Mercantile Bank of Australia, has beer arrested. He had booked his passagi for Australia directly he saw the cablegram in the" newspapers announcing thai a warrant was out for his apprehension, He considers that he has been cruelly treated, as directly his prosecution was decided on, he expressed his willingness to return to Victoria and meet the charges. He will apply to be liberated on bail, but the police authorities intend to oppose the application, preferring that he should be taken to Melbourne in custody. Mr Milledge, late manager of the Mercantile Bank of Australia, who was arrested, appeared before the magistrate at Bow street to-day. He explained that he was ill, the result of anxiety re the charges. The official receiver not objecting, the magistrate sent a detective to escort Mr Milledge on board the Himalaya, in which he sailed for Melbourne. Counsel for accused complained that the issue of the warrant for the arrest of his client was inconsiderate, as the directors were asked to attend on summons. The Indian Government have decided that the transit rates on colonial cablegrams shall remain at 35 centimes while the European and Australian rate is 4s 9d per word. Mr Labbilliries’ paper, read before the Colonial Institute, on the rise and progress of British federation, condemns the imprudence of the Council of the Imperial Federation League in declaring that intercolonial federation is essential to Imperial Federation. Mr J. S. Balfour, M.P., has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Owing to the troubled relations of England with Morocco, Sir J. West Ridgeway proceeds there as special British Envoy. The managing director of the Liberator Permanent Building Society has fled from England, and Mr J. Spencer Balfoui’, who held the position of honorary director, is reported to be hiding on the Continent. Lord Winchelsea is promoting a Farmers’ Union, and the proposal, has been well received. It was, stated that the profits of one of the London middlemen by substituting Canadian for English beef amounted to £200,000. Owing to the large quantity of ice on the Thames several vessels are imprisoned in the London docks. The Liberals of Bangor in North Wales insist that the disestablishment of the Church of Wales shall take place before Home Rule. The weather in England and on the Continent is extremely cold, and many persons have been frozen to death here and in Germany and Austria. In Fiume (Austria-Hungary), a train was snowed up for eighteen hours, and the passengers suffered terribly from the cold. Up to the present fifteen persons have been frozen to death in England, and forty-one persons have been drowned owing to skating accidents. Miss Shaw, special correspondent of the London Times, who is now touring Australia in the interests of that paper, in an article, says she considers that the Queensland sugar industry is a remunerative enterprise, though its advantage is hardly yet realised in the colony. She draws attention to the wealth of the cedar forests in the northern portion of the colony. Three cotton warehouses, with 11,000 bales of cotton, have been destroyed by fire in Liverpool. Two firemen lost their lives. The damage is estimated at £200,000. Constantinople, Jan. G. A severe storm has been experienced in the Black Sea. Thirty vessels, including several steamers, were wrecked. St. Petersburg;, Jan. 6. Russia is spending an extra £12,000,000 tips year, chiefly on Siberian and other railways. Brussels, Jan. 5. Ice floes have almost closed the river Scheldt to sailing vessels. Cairo, Jan. 5. Full particulars have been received of the engagement which took place at Ambigol wells on Monday last between the Dervishes and a detachment of Egyptian cavalry, to the number of 120, assisted by a party of irregulars, surprised and attacked the Dervishes at dawn on the day mentioned. The Dervishes cavalry became isolated from the infantry. Two detachments charged the Egyptians, who behaved gallantly. After the fall of Captain Pyne, of the Dorsetshire Regiment, they were forced to retire, but afterwards kept up a harassing attack on the enemy. The casualties on the Egyptians’ side were 35 killed 15 wounded, Jan. 7. Colonel Kitchener and the other officers who proceeded to the frontier Confirm the gravity of the situation at Ambigol wells. Tangier, Jan. o. A British Note has been presented to the Sultan at Fez, demanding reparation for the murder of British subjects by the Tangier police. Calcutta, Jan. 9. Russian emissaries in Cabul are negotiating with the Ameer of Afghanistan over the Pamirs, and ignore England in the matter. Washington, Jan. G. Mr Chandler lias introduced a Bill in the United States Senate to abolish Pinkerton’s police. President Harrison has decided to delay the withdrawal of the Canadian railway privileges.

.New York, Jan. b. The trouble in connection with th .lynching afl'air at Bakersville has ae sumed a most serious aspect. In ah forty- two people have been killed, amonj the number being the sheriff, while th 3 list of wounded reaches forty-three. Tin 1 prisoners were lynched by a mob win ) are now in possession of the town, am troops will probably be sent to quell tin 1 disturbance. The prisoners were de 1 liberately shot on their way to execution | Wallace Ross has challenged Hanlan or the winner of the race between HosraeJ ’ and Bubear, to row for the sculliiq J championship of the world. ! The Bakersville trouble originated ovei 1 an illicit still. The three prisoners had 1 murdered those who had informed J against the proprietor of it. The lynchers '■ rushed the gaol, and despite the deadly fijie of the warders and others, secured the prisoners guilty of murder. The latter were tortured, shot, and the bodies set on fire. The grand jury at Brooklyn will indict the Mayor and Council of New York for illegal and corrupt expenditure of public money at the Columbus festivals, Mr Chandler, Chairman of the Immigration Committee of Congress, has drafted an Immigration Bill. It provides that all cripples, paupers, and illiterate persons be not admitted into the United States. President Harrison has granted an amnesty lo all Mormons who have abstain cd from polygamy since 1890, and will prosecute others. Jan. 7. The trouble reported from Bakersville, which caused great excitement throughout the States, proves to be a hoax. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, Jan. 6. It is officiilly announced that Mr Munro has resigned the Agent-General-ship, and it is understood that Sir Graham Berry will again represent the colony in Loudon. Those whom the Government have decided to prosecute for issuing false balancei sheets of the Mercantile Bank of Australia, have informed the authorities of their whereabouts, and will be summoned on a criminal charge. The date of the trials is fixed for the 11th inst., but it is px-obable that the prosecution will be delayed until the arrival of Mr Milledge from London. Jan. 7. Dr Madden, who held the Portfolio of Minister of Justice in the Service Ministry, in 1880, succeeds the late Judge Higinbotham. Brisbane, Jan. 8. Deplorable accounts have been received of the drought in the Western District. On many stations half the stock has perished. The heat is terrible, registering 120 degrees in the shade. It 'will take the country three or four years to recover. ii- ■■ i i