TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2543, 17 August 1893, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLLSH AND FOREIGN

London, August G

The new cruiser Forte rammed the steamer Kirby during a fog off Stp-t Point. Both vessels were injured and sought, refuge in Plymouth harbour. H.M.S. fruimpli has arrived at Porkmouth with the survivors of the Victoria disaster on bonrd. Many affecting scenes were witnessed when the men landed.

A train crammed with holiday makers ran oft' the ra 41 s at Llautrisamt, in Glamorganshire, yesterday, and three carriages rolled 50 yards down an embankment. The passengers were wedged in the wreckage and a heartrending scene occurred. Fifteen people woro killed and 50 iujuxedv -■

Sir Evelyn Wood has been appointed Quartermaster- General.

The Dowager (Jountes3 of Jersey is dead.

Lieutenant-General Sir E. B. Hamley, aged 09, is dead.

The Times thinks it a healthy sign to see Victoria giving attention to primary productions, and says that if that course be persevered with, the value of land must rise; it is impossible to doubt the eventual prospersity of the colony. Paris, August 14.

The Pope, in an Encyclical to the French electors, favours the upholding of the Republic, as no return to monarchy is now poossible. His Holiness reproves a certain section of the Roman Catholics in France for pretending greater solicitude for the Church than for the Vatican itself.

St. Petersburg, August 14. The deaths from cholera number hundreds daily. Buda-Pesth, August 14.

Severe floods have been experienced in Eperies, a town of Hungary on the Tareza, 22 miles north-east of Kaschau. Fifty persons were drowned, and upwards of one hundred families rendered homeless.

The Emperors of Austria and Germany meet at a hunt at Koszeg, in Hungary, on the 21st in st. Washington, August 14.

Mr E. J. Phelps, the United States delegate to the Behring Sea Commission, denies that the report is yet drawn up. He thinks that it will probably suggest a compromise. Marchaut, a rich land-owner of Birmingham, Alabama, was shot dead by a band of outlaws. The enraged citizaus pursued the murderers, shot three of the leaders, and drove three into a swamp, where they were drowned. The fight lasted several hours.

The Churches of Colorado are asking the President to appoint a day of fasting and prayer, on account of the financial distress and. ihe legalised sins of the nation.

The Senate hotel at Chicago has been burned. Some of the inmates leaped from windows and were dashed to pieces. Eight lives were lost. New York, August 14.

A great fire in Minneapolis destroyed 200 houses and rendered 1500 people homeless. The damage is estimated at 2,000,000. Zanzibar, August 14.

Owing to the hostility displayed, towards the deposed Sultan, JJritiah tars stormed and burned Witu. Two English officers were wounded.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, August 14*

Sir H. Parkes intends to visit Adelaide, Melbourne, and various parts of this colony, for the purpose of delivering addresses to forward the cause of federation.

Mr Coghlen, Government Statist, estimates the British deposits in Australasian banks at no less than than £40,000,000. The calculation is based on the December quarter of last year, which gives the total liabilities of colonial banks at £117,994,000 and the assets at £169,764,000. It is understood that fresh proceedings will be instituted privately against; Sir Matthew Davios and F. Milledge. It is probable that several others will be included in the proceedings

August 15,

In compliance with a request from the Premier of New Zealand, the Government have despatched a steamer to Norfolk Island to bring on the shipwrecked crew of the Girvan.

The charge agaiust the other men in connection with the death c,| Boi't at Miner's point will not "be proceeded with.

Jiakiu was executed to-day, death being instantaneous. It is understood that he-has left a statement, declaring that the child for whose inurdey he was convicted was not properly identified.

Melbourne, August 15.

A quarrel took place during a football match between two of the players. The combatants continued to quarrel after the conclusion of the match, and one of thorn named Hennessy was killed.