TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2511, 3 June 1893, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, May 22. At the Royal Military Tournament at Islington, the colonial military won five first, six second, and four third prizes. John Gilbert, a dynamiter, who was sentenced in 1885, has been released owing to sickness. The correspondent of the Daily News at Constantinople reports that the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula are secretly agitating for the overthrow of Turkish power in order to accept British power. _ " The Executive Committee of the Chicago Exhibition have invited the Lord Mayor of London to visit the exhibition, and promise him a brilliant reception. Roberts is playing Ives, billiard champion of America, GOOD up. The former is leading at present. June 1. It is officially announced that the Duke of York’s wedding will take place on July 6th. The Queen will be present. The Bangkok correspondent of the Times reports that the Siamese Government are getting ready 30,000 men to check the encroachments of the French. The Times correspondent at Montasa reports that Sir G, Portal has settled Uganda. He has enlisted Egyptian troops and abandoned the outermost forts. Mr Perceval has been elected a member of the Council of the Society of Arts. • The following is the result of ihe Derby:—lsinglass 1, Raveusbury 2, Raeburn 3 ; time 2miu 43sec. Lord William led into the straight, when Isinglass ran to the front and won easily by a length and a half. Ravensbury was two lengths ahead of the third horse. Pakis, June 1. Twenty-three deaths from cholera have occurred at Morbihan, in Brittany, in a fortnight. The French press urges that in the absence of De Lesseps, others should be appointed to restore the influence of France in the affairs af the Suez Canal, which is now controlled by the British. Madrid, May 31. At a bull fight near Madrid a number of excited youths jumped into the arena and amid the frenzied plaudits of the spectators tried their hands as matadors. The result was that two were gored to death. Berlin, June 1. Horr Wolff, the African traveller, cables to the Berlin press that the British East Africa Company gave up Uganda to Imperial rule on April Ist. The withdrawal was effected quietly. Cairo, May 31. The official journal of Cairo warns the native press to cease their attacks upon the British. Washington, June 1. A co-operative city is being founded near Buffalo. Sites have been rushed, aiid 400 acres have already been sold. Free sites are to be given for factories, and motive power is to be obtained from Niagara Falls. The executive of the Chicago Exhibition maintain that the official system of making awards is sufficient, but offer to appoint judges to inspect individual exhibits, The European and foreign committee are considering the proposal. The silver statue of Justice, which cost £65,000, was unveiled in the Montana Court at the Exhibition yesterday. McFarlane; chairman of an Insurance Company in the United States, has been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for defrauding the Company of a quarter of a million, Mexico, May 31. A number of squatters occupied a ranche at Pilras, in Mexico, and when called upon to pay rent murdered the owner and one of his servants. The bodies were riddled with bullets. The troops pursued the assassins and captured and shot sixteen of them. Ottawa, May 31. The Canadian Government are being urged to send a commission to discuss with the Cabinets of the Australjap colonies a means of geQuriqg closer trade relations and the laying of a Pacific cable. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sidney, May 31. Under the Village Settlement Bill, at present before the Legislative Assembly, a settlement must consist of not less than twenty-four persons. The Government are to subsidise each association to the amount of £240, the association providing a similar snip. June 1. News from Tonga states that Prince Tufaahu has been crowned under the title of King George Tahou 11. The ceremony was of an interesting nature. Melbourne, May 31. A nugget of solid gold weighing Q3qzs has been found at Talbqt, in' the Maryborough district, June 1. The Cabinet have decided to exempt salaries of £IOO and under from the proposed 2| per gent. redqcfiop, The case of Richard Speight, late Chairman of the Railway Board, versus The Age, newspaper, an action for libel, begins to-day. The case will be in the nature of a State trial, and the whole railway policy will be reviewed. The hearing of the case is expected to occupy a couple of months, It is stated that the costs of the defendants will amount to £15,000. In the course of the trial the defendants will seek to show that the late Railway Commissioners absolutely wasted £l,Q00.00(j qf the public money. Heavy rains have caused floods in the Melbourne suburbs, and some country districts. The railways are damaged, and train communication with the port of Melbourne is interrupted. The town of Lillydale jg under water, Perth, June 1. Smallpox is almost stamped out.