TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2467, 21 February 1893, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN,

London, Feb. 17

A curious case is being investigated. A woman bought a child, and imputed its parentage to a gentleman named Coxon, who married her. Subsequently he was killed in the hunting field. The real mother having revealed the sale of the child, Coxon’s family brought an action against his widow to recover the fortune left to the child by Coxon. A verdict was returned in favour of the family. The amount expended in alcohol in Great Britain last year amounted to £140,000,000. Feb. 10. The annual football match between Oxford and Cambridge Universities was won by the former. Yorkshire won the county football championship. The election for the Hexham seat in the House of Commons took place today, and resulted as follows; Mr Maclnnis (Liberal), 4804 ; Mr B. Clayton (Conservative), who was returned at the General Election, but was unseated on the ground of corrupt practices, 4356. Edward S. W. DeCobain, formerly member for Belfast East, who in April, 1891, was accused of a gra*e criminal offence, and who fled to Spain, has been arrested in Belfast, and will be placed on his trial. The P. and O. Company’s steamer Arcadia has conveyed to Suez a battery artillery suddenly ordered to Egypt. The Marquis of Ripon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has promised to inform the House of Lords of the effect of the recent additions made to the Legislative Council of New Zealand. The Agents-General are proposing to accept Imperial rules respecting volunteer medals. Paris, Feb. 17.

The Government have submitted to the Chamber of Deputies a Bill—providing for the construction of a cable to connect New Caledonia with Queensland. The Government propose to grant a subsidy of £B,OOO per year for thirty years, on condition that the cable and all its belongings are entirely French, and that it must be laid by a French ship, also that it be controlled by a French directorate in Paris. The scheme is adversely criticised in London as likely to prevent the construction of a British cable to Queensland across the Pacific. Constantinople, Feb. 17.

Osmau Pacha replaces Mukhatar Pacha as High Commissioner for Turkey in Egypt. Madrid, Feb. 17.

Twenty-seven miners have been suffocated by an escape of gas in a lead mine in Nazzawo (sic). The wives and families of the deceased rushed to the mine, and most pitiful scenes were witnessed. Rome, Feb. 19.

His Holiness the Pope, replying to an address presented by pilgrims, stated that he longed for a cessation of the conliict between the Vatican and Italian Sovereignty. Brussels, Feb. 17.

The Monetary Conference will not assemble again, the Great Powers being convinced that no satisfactory result is likely to ensue. St. Peters urg, Feb. 17,

The Czar has remitted the death sentences passed on those convicted of complicity in the cholera riots in Astrakan.

Berlin, Feb. 17. The Reichstag rejected the two years’ service clause in the Army Bill. Washington, Feb. 17.

The Democrats packed Parliament House, Kansas, but were defeated by their opponents, who were armed and broke down the doors with sledge mers. The Governor of the "has asked that a battery of ’Uuiilery be sent to assist in order.

Feb. 19

In Congress Mr Waugh, member for the State of Indiana, in a speech said that he would not believe Mr L. W. Turpin, member for Alabama, on his oath. An uproar resulted, and Mr Turpin struck Mr Waugh a heavy blow in the face. As order could not be maintained Congress was adjourned. Venezuela, Ecuador, and Columbia have entered into an alliance to resist British encroachment.

Capetown. Feb. 1(5

Owing to the necessity of sending the lo lie’s shaft to England for repair, the steamer will be delayed a mouth. The vessel herself is uninjured. The passengers will probably be sent on by the Ruahine.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE

Sydney, Feb. 17

Mr Fergusson, proprietor of the Cumberland Times, has been committed for trial for criminal libel on Messrs Crick, Willis, Alexander and Hutchison, members of the Legislative Assembly. The article complained of made charges of a disgraceful nature. News has been received of Die wreck of the Auckland trader Jessie, at Long Island, where she was loading guano. A hurricane drove the vessel ashore. The crew reached Noumea in a small yacht the Jessie had taken to the islands. The Holensborough miners have struck against a reduction in the rates for hewing, and it is expected the others in the southern portions of the colony will follow their example. Feb. li). Sir C. Tl. Dibbs states that ho claimed no right inspecting the appointment of Governor, bub expected to be informed of the selection before the final appointment in order that he might inform the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the appointment would give satisfaction.

Brisiune, Feb. 17

Mr Wraggo, the Government Meteorologist, predicts squally and unsettled weather, between south and west, between Gabo Island and New Zealand, Aurumg phenomenal rainfalls recently inches in 2-i- hour; was recorded at the Blackall ranges, about 025 miles north-west of Brisbane. This is believed to be a world’s record. Heavy rain is falling at Toowoomba and most of the Darling Down stations expect great hoods. Tremendous floods are anticipated in Bundaborg, 272 miles north of Brisbane

and trains are in readiness to convey the inhabitants from North Bundaberg. If the drought continues in central Queensland for another two mouths most of the stock will be dead.