TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2471, 2 March 1893, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, Feb. 23. Tho DeCobain case is being heard privately. The importation of arms into Ireland has been prohibited, except under special conditions.

Feb. 27

The Standard, in an article on the political situation, accuses the leaders of the Opposition of mismanagement and carelessness at the General Election. It further states that they wasted opportunities, and by ill-conceived tactics have allowed the Government to gain ground both in the Houso and the country.

The Queen opens the Imperial Institute in full state on May 11th. The Vienna correspondent of the Standard says that Prussia has plans perfected for lauding 40,000 men at C mstantinople if it thought desirable. He further asserts that tho turks would be quite unable to prevent a landing, as their largest men-of-war are rotting in the harbour and have no guns on board, while no British force could arrive in time to prevent the expedition securing a footing.

At the close of the Clare assizes Mr Justice O'Brien declared that there was •no security in the country for life and property.

Brussels, Feb. 27,

News has been received from the Congo States that the Belgain expedition under Dhanish, sent to punish Arabs for the massacre of Major Hodister's expedition, have defeated the Arabs at Tomani, and that 500 prisoners were taken, including six chiefs, and 000 rifles secured. Komk, Feb. 26.

Members of the Chamber of Deputy resent the appeal of the Pope, and warn him that it is possible to depose him for menacing the State.

Fourteen anarchists have been arrested in Home for conspiring to blow up the Pope at St. Peter's

Feb. 27.

The Pope, in bidding farewell to the English pilgrims who were present at his Jubilee celebrations, expressed the hope that England would soon be a Catholic country again.

Constantinople, Feb. 2G

A serious lire has taken place in this city. Three hundred houses were destroyed, and three thousand people rendered homeless. The damage is estimated at £250,000/ St. Peteusubg, Feb. 20. Twelve children were frozen at Kaluga on their road to school.

Washington, Feb. 20

The Senate has virtually referred the discussion on the Hawaiian treaty to the new Congress.

Boner and Knoll have been sentenced to five years' imprisonment for abetting the attempt on the life of Mr Flick, manager at the Homestead Works. jNevv Yokk, Feb. 2G. Judge Parker, of Kansas, asserts that there have been 25,000 murders committed in tho United States since 1888, and that there has been a great inciease in lynching.

Zanzibar. Feb. 20

Arab slavers are raiding the district north of Lake Jfyanza. They captured the inhabitants of a native village, butchered the men, and carried off 200 women and children, whom they afterwards speared when pursued by a force white men.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE,

brDNEY, Feb. 27. The Builders' and Contractors' Association have resolved to give three months' notice of a 10 per cent reduction in wages all round. Feb. 28. The Electoral Bill has passed through Committee in the Legislative Council, but the amendments are not likely to r -' with the approval of the *"-' " iC> l The Minister of Just- -^vemment. move for tha i~ -" e guve notlcQ to move tor tt»\. eolumittal of tho EilL IMPERIAL POLITICS. London, Feb. 26. The National Liberal Association have issued a manifesto calling upon the party to rally round tho cause of autonomy, and obtain a lasting settlement of the Irish question. Feb. 28. Sir William Vornon Harcourt has introduced tho Local Control Bill, the provisions of which are on the lines already cabled. It will not come into opertiou for three years, except in regard to Sunday closing, the provisions appertaining to which will come into force immediately the measure becomes law. The Bill does not provide for compensation. The first reading was agreed to. The Unionist press characterise the Local Control Bill as a crude production. It does not apply to Ireland. New York, Feb. 27.

The Irish National League iu America have issued a manifesto condemning the Home Rule Bill as ruinous to the welfare of Ireland. The Financial proposals are described as n clever piece of juggling, and it is urged that a sovereign parliament will alone suffice to meet the wants of the people.