TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2534, 27 July 1893, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, July 24. Eighty deaths from typhoid fever have occurred at Worthing, in Sussex. Victims are buried at night, and all excursion trains to the town have been stopped. The British East African Company evacuate Witu on the 31st. The Company petition the Government to buy them out of the coast zone for £IBO,OOO. Sergeat Davis, of the First Welsh Volunteers, won the Queen’? prize at Bisley. ' , Lieutenant Kennedy was sixth in the Colonial Match, and second in the Armourers’ Match. Sharland, a London bicyclist, rode 426 miles in 24 hours, thus establishing anew record. It is estimated that the English hop crop wiIL, : b,B one-third.- belo yiold. While the naval maoeuvres were proceeding off the Irish coast, a torpedo boat in attempting to cross the bows of a schooner came into collision with her and nearly sank. Other casualties are reported. During an excursion on the Thames, at which the Australian cricketers were guests, a boatman fell overboard and was sinking in deep water, when Tom Ware and Coniughan jumped in with their clothes on and rescued the drowning man. The latter had a very narrow escape. July 25. A parcel delivered by post at Broad Stairs, in Kent, exploded, killing a resident named Richards in the presence of his wife and child. It is believed that the package contained dynamite. Cardinal Moran’s illness has been caused by overwork in connection with his history of the Roman Catholic Church in Australia. The Court awarded the Hawarden Castle £7OOO for assisting the,lonic when she broke her shaft off Capetown. Of this amount £5600 goes to the owners, and the rest to the captain and crew. Gaudaur beat Haulan by seven lengths. Lord Sudley has called a meeting of his creditors. His liabilities amount to £BOO,OOO and his assets to £43,000. The Globe thinks it will be interesting to watch New South Wales abolishing payment of members, and considers it surprising that the system was ever adopted. Paris, July 24. The President has remitted a year of M. Blondin’ ssentence of the Panama convicts.) The French elections take place on August 20th. President Carnot is ill. Constantinople, July 24. Painful details are published of the torture which Armenian prisoners are subjected to by the Turkish authorities. Numbers of them have been beaten almost to a jelly, while others have been seared with hot irons. Brussels, July 23. Schouppe, an escaped convict from New Caledonia, was sentenced to five years penal servitude at Brussels for anarchism. July 24. Adam Wirth, a noted thief, at present undergoing a term of imprisonment in Louvain gaol, has confessed to the theft of Gainsborough’s portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire. Wirth is now believed to have been concerned in the late Hatton Garden and Post Office robberies in London, and is also credited with having committed many audacious bank, jewellery, and other robberies on the Continent, in America and at Capetown, which have baffled the efforts of the police to bring the offender to justice. The picture was stolen for the sake of ranson money, which, however, the thief was unable to claim. The whereabouts of the picture is unknown. [This picture, which has already become famous for having been sold for 10,000 guineas (£10,605), the highest price ever paid an auction for a portrait. •. , ”, still more so hv " > was reudered .. . . saving been stolen from gallery in which it had only recently been placed for exhibition, known as the New British Institution, No. 29b, Old Bond Street.] Sofia, July 23. Olemeut, the Metropolitan of Buglaria, was sentenced to banishment for life for sedition. St. Petersburg, July 24. Twelve ai rests have been effected at Khartov, including some female students, of persons charged with plotting to bring about the annexation of Ukraine by Austria. Singapore, July 24. Information has been received here that a number of Chinese passengers on board a Dutch trader pirated the vessel, killing the English officers and 22 of the crew. Fifteen other members of the crew were injured.

New York, July 24. News from San Salvador, Central America, states that the President has executed twenty-three leaders of the recent revolt.