TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2528, 13 July 1893, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, July 6. The corporation of the city gave a banquet to the Czarewitch, aud the PriDce and Princess Christian. The former said he hoped the great amity which existed between the Royal Families of England and Russia would extend to the people of the two countries. James Tims, a member of the London County Council, and Secretary of the Radical . Federation League, has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment for defrauding a railway company of the value of a ticket. A yacht capsized in a violent Btorm off Skegness, a seaside resort in Lincolnshire. Thirty excursionists were drowned. The Law Times publishes a rumour to the effect that Lord Herschell, the Lord Chancellor, will succeed Lord Lanßdowne as Viceroy of India. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge will take his place on the woolsack, and Sir C. Russell will become Chief Justice. Mr Conybeare's offence, which brought down on hi in the censure of the House, consisted in his writing a letter to tha Daily Chronicle, charging the Speaker with unfairly refusing to put a motion for closure. The Speaker denied the charge, and added that Mr Conybeare was a frequent offender against decorum, and had narrowly escaped expulsion in 1887. Probate has been granted in the will of the late Sir James Anderson, at £90,000. Mr Broadwood, head of the well-known piano manufacturing firm, is dead. Scatton, formerly a well-known Notts professsional, committed suicide by cutting his throat. The cause was family troubles. July 11. Mr Deasy, M.P., accused of assaulting a servant in a boarding-house, is now on trial. The girl's evidence varied from her former testimony, as she admitted that during the assault the bedroom door was open, and Mr Deasy was aware that that the landlady was coming. Paris, July 9. There was a debate in the Chamber of Deputies yesterd/iy, on the subject of the recent riots which the Radicals attributed to the hasty calling out of the troops. M. Dreyfus said the police had been guilty of murder. A great uproar ensued. A vote of confidence in the Government was carried by a majority of 200. France and Germany have agreed to mark their boundaries, and to fix a neutral zone. July 11. M. Loze, the Prefect of Police, who has been removed in consequence of the late riots, will receive a diplomatic appointment. The Government have decided to send reinforcements to Saigon. The inquiry into the murder of one of the French escort whilst conducting a Madariu across the river in Siam, so far as it has proceeded, shows that the official was killed by the Siamese Mandarin in a fair fight in Peytral. The general position of the French from Tonquin to Saigon, the capital of French Cochin China, is becoming critical owing to Chinese intrigues. Rome, July 10. The Italian Press in general refer in favourable terms to the Bank Bill, but at the same time express many misgivings as to its passing into law. Constantinople, July 10. The Sultan has made a present to two of the Armenian professors who were recently cleared of being connected with the recent troubles in Angora, in Armenia. Berlin, July 9. The Army Bill has been read a first time in the Reichstag. It is reported that the Emperor lws promised to visit Chicago as soon as the Army Bill is passed. Vienna, July 9. Forty thousand Socialists demand universal suffrage. Madrid, July 9. The roads in the province of Murioa are strewn with corpses, the victims to cholera. St. Petersburg, July 9. The Czar and Sultan of Turkey are debating a meeting between the two potentates at Livadia, in the Crimea, in October, for the purpose of coming to an understanding respecting Bulgaria. The Moscow Gazette says that England is losing her influence with the Ameer of Afghanistan, and that Russia will neglect no chance of assisting the inhabitants of India to overthrow British rule. Ottawa, July 9. Thirteen thousand Catholics in Montreal attempted to demolish the rotuuda of the Protestant missionaries, owing to the latter stigmatising them as idolators. Information, however, was sent beforehand to the authorities aud a body of police and riflemen were on guard. Many of the rioters were injured and a number arrested. New York, July 10. A storm ou Lake Mighjgan paused the destruction of a number of boats, and damaged a portion of the Chicago Exhibition building. Thirty persons were drowned, and the storm was of such a violent character that it caused a panic among the visitors to the Exhibition.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

g?psj!Y, July 10. The larrikin gang, arrpsted for the murder of fcho man Pert, who was kicked to death, have been committed for trial on the vordict of the Coroner's jury. July 11. The schooner Post Boy, whioh loft Dunedin on Juno 9th for Adelaide, has put in here short of provisions. She encountered heavy weather crossing the Tasman Sea. A boy named Bryan, aged 15 years, living new Hay, quarre] led with a man named Smith, who hud chastisod him for ill-treating a dog. The boy rushed into a tent, procured a gun, and shot Smith dead. Tho lad has been arrested. Mblboubne, July 11. Odgers, cashier of tho Land, Mortgage, and Jfin&ncs Company, has been arrested on a charge of emben/.ieuiunt. His defalcations exceed £2OOO. The Government will short submit to the House a Bill for tho imposition of an Income Tax. It will provide for a minimum of 3d ju the £, and a maximum

of Bd, charged on incomes derived from personal exertions, exceptions being made in the case of incomes under £2OO. A tax of Is in the £ will be imposed on incomes received from investment. It is estimated that this tax will yield £300,000 per annum, thus obviating the necessity for the imposition of a land tax on unimproved values, or a small duty on goods now admitted free into the colony. Through a crane breaking, two men, named Delia and P.ncole, were precipated a hundred feet from the top of a new building and killed. The bodies were fearfully mangled. A third man, named Masson, is badly injured, and lies in a critical condition. Sir Michael Davies was formally committed for trial to-day. Brisbane, July 11. Mr Wragge predicts heavy weather between the north-west aDd south, and that it is sure to be mot with between Tasmania and the Bluff duriug the next few days.. The "formed the Governor f «iat*he folincrit impossible to continue in office. The Governor replied that the position would be very grave if he resigned or went to the country, and requested him to reconsider his determination. The Cabinet eventually agreed to meet the Governor's wishes that the Ministry should retain office. Albany, July 10. Sir Matthew Davies, who has arrived here en route to Melbourne, is far from well. He says ho never had any intention of going beyond Columbo, and is quite prepared to meet the charge on which he stands committed for trial. He contends that if the Mercantile Bank directors are prosecuted there Bhould be a prosecution of the directors of all the suspended banks.