TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2470, 28 February 1893, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH ANIT FOREIGN

London, Feb. 23

Seven hundred men from the 7th Dragoons at Bombay replace the squadrons now in Egypt. \ The Right Hon. Robert W. Duff, the new Governor of New South Wales, is a relation of the Duke of Fife, and is very rich. It is believed in official circles that the Queen will confer a high distinction on him.

The directors of the Liberator Building Society have been committed for trial. The Government Liquor Veto Bill gives power to. a two-thirds majority of ratepayers to veto the issue of new licenses, and to a bare majority to insist on Sunday closing.

Feb. 25. Character beat Button in the final course, and won the Waterloo Cup. Mr hlogan, a Melbourne journalist, has been returned unopposed for MidTipperary. The Admiralty have issued a minute, differing with the finding of the courtmartial upon the loss of H.M.S. Howe, regarding the Captain and Commander, whom the Amiralty regard as guilty of unskilful management and neglect to take bearings. . Mr Wilson, of the Standard, replies to the letter of Sir Saul Samuel, published in the Westminster Gazette, contemptuously adhering to everything he had previously written. He ridicules the value of land rearing only one sheep to ten acres, and states that there are great stretches of land in New South Wales unable to be let at Id per aere. The funded loan scheme, he says, is still a fiasco, for it is probable that much of the money will be subscribed by English companies, or coming again to the London market is probable. The colonists, he believes, will not view his criticism like Sir Saul Samuel, and the Premier's pledge not to borrow on the London market until credit is restored is mere hocus pocus. Paris, Feb. 23. The Chamber of Deputies has passed a Bill, empowering a cable to be laid from New Caledonia to Queensland. Feb. 25. The Court of Cassation has rejected the appeal of MM. Charles de Lesseps, Fontaine, Cotter, and Eiffel, against the indictment for bribery framed by the Chamber of Deputies, and the cases will bo tried at the next assizes. M. Ferry has been elected President of the Chamber of Deputies, in succession to M. Floquet, by a majority of 148. Rosie, Feb. 23.

One hundred and four members of the Mala Vita Society have been sentenced to terms ranging from one year to six years' imprisonment. The donations received by His Holiness the Pope, on the occasion of his Jubilee, amounted to 7,000,000 francs (£230,000). St. Petersueg, Feb. 24-.

General Gourko is securing plans of the forts on the German and Austrian frontiers.

Washington, Feb. 23. The strike of switchmen at Chicago for increased wages is paralysing trade.

Feb. 24. Opposition to the annexation of Hawaii is developing in the Senate.

The iNew York Life Insurance Company have appointed Mr Frankland, formerly head of the New Zealand Government Insurance Department associate actuary in N ew York, at a high salary. New Yokk, Feb. 24. China has appointed a Resident in the Pamir country.

San Francisco, Feb. 25,

A man named Ratcliffe to-day shot Mr Mackay, the American silver king, in the back and then committed suicide. Mr Mackay, who is only slightly wounded, declares that he had no previous knowledge of Ratcliffe. Rio de Jankiho, Feb, 2-i.

The Federal troop 3 have recaptured ten towns, and are routing the insurgents. Many prisoners have been oaptured.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE,

Srr>NEY, Feb. 25. Lord and Lady Jersey depart on Wednesday via Japan. Peiith, (W.A.) Feb. 23.

A small vessel, name unknown, foundered near Roebuck Bay. One man was saved and five drowned.