TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2527, 11 July 1893, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, July 6, The whalers of Dundee are forming a company with a capital of £60,000, to conduct operations in the Antarctic Ocean, from the Falkland Islands. The four-masted barque Gowauburn, Captain Gebhardt, 1999 tons, which left Newcastle with a cargo of coal for San Francisco on February 15th last, is reported at Lloyd’s as missing. (A large quantity of wreckage bearing the name of this vessel has been found between Waitara and Manukau, leaving but little doubt that she was lose in the vicinity of the New Zealand coast.) The men who were rescued from the mine in Thornhill are dying.. The entombed miners chalked farewells on the side of the pit when they knew that ail chance of rescue was gone. Up to the present ninety-eight bodies have been recovered. When the ten menwhowete rescued alive were brought out of the mine, their relatives were almost frantic with joy, and most affecting scenes were witnessed. July 8. Mr Fulton, a farmer, of Napier, summoned Mr James Alexander to Guildhall for alleged misappropriation of 6.4 bales of wool, with intent to defraud. The case was adjourned, but the Court expressed the opinion that the evidence so far adduced was weak. The Lord Mayor’s fund for the relief of the Victoria’s sufferers has reached £50,000. Sir Bache Cunard has been seriously injured in a coufict with poachers. The Leauder crew beat the London crew for the Henley Grand Challenge Cup by three-quarters of a length ; time —7 min. The Thames Cup was won by the Thames Crew, beating the Eton and Excelsior crews by 2 lengths. Justice Gibson complains that the acquittal the of prisoners charged with outrages in County Clare was a travesty on justice.

Paris, July 6. The Senate have refused to accept the resignation of the Prefecture of Police. Although the students are quiet, the mob continue to riot, and last night the police were desperately attacked, and one officer was shot. Fifty thousand troops are stationed in Paris.

July 8. Guy de Maupassant, novelise, who recently went mad, is dead. A further outbreak of cholera is reported from Toulon. The riots are fizzling out. Altogether two hundred arrests were made yesterday, • n the lleichstag, on introducing the Army Bill, Count Von Caprivi said that he would compel'the wealthy to bear the burden of taxation by the exemption of farmers .and increasing the Bourse tax. The measure now submitted reduces the original demand regarding men and money by one sixth, and providas for only two years’ service. Brussels, July 7. Information has been received from Congo that Captain Chilton and Captain Jacques, in the Belgian Service, have defeated the Arab slavers with great slaughter, and driven them back from Stanley Falls to Lake Tanganyika. St, Petersburg, July 6. An attempt to assassinate Pobiedonostzetf, the Procurator-General of the Greek Church in Bus<ia, failed. Hong Kong, July 7. By the floods in China ten thousand people have been drowned. July 8. The Don Juan was burnt off Manilla. Most of those on board jumped overboard, and it is estimated that fully 145 Chinese were drowned. Washington, July 4. News from Honolulu states that a dynamite conspiracy has been discovered there. Messrs Walker, Sinclair, and Crick, the promoters, have been arrested, and twenty prominent me a are said to be implicated, including nine ex-Miuisters. Four more banks in Colorado have suspended. July 7. A cyclone destroyed half the town of Pomeroy, in lowa, and 100 persons were drowned.

Zanzibar, May 29. Sir Gi. Portal has restored a great part of the country taken from the Catholics in Uganda. Bishop Tucker insisted on sending missionaries to tour Uganda although Sir Gerald Portal warned him that they were at their own risk, and could not look to the military to protect them. Calcutta, July 7. With a view of securing effective control of the Hill tribes in Chitral and the Indus Valleys, a Bitish force will permanently occupy Chidas on the Indus? and the garrison at digit will be increased,

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, July 7. The Cabinet have decided to retrench still further, and some £200,000 or £300,000 will be deducted from the votes for various Departments. The Premier, in replying to Mr Powell, acting Premier of Canada, stated that the middle of September would be a good time for a delegation from Canada to visit Australia. The Government have issued instructions that two magistrates should sit on the bench when cases of larrikinism are being tried in order that flogging may be imposed. July 7. The first review of the forces by the new Commandant look place yesterday. 3472 men paraded. The Commandant, addressing the Mounted Infantry, complimented them upon their individual work, but commented severely on the manner in which the men manceuvrod. MELnoxmNE, July 7. An attempt was made last night to sink the steamer Weudouree by scuttling her, the circular pump door being opened and the valves unscrewed. The engine room was full of water before the outrage was discovered. The engineer of the Burrumbeet dived down and shut the door, thus saving the vessel. Strikers are suspected. Adelaide, July 7. Mr John McKinlay, husband of Sterling, is dead,