TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2545, 22 August 1893, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

London, August 15,

The Pall Mall Gazette gives publication to a statement that the sum of £6OOU was privately subscribed for the purpose of abducting from Buenos Ayres J. Spencer Balfour, ex-M.P., who is wanted in England in connection with the management of several building societies, of which he was managing director. Pour victims of the Liberator Building Society undertook the work, and Balfour was secured by them. He was greatly terrified, and applied to the Argentine Republic for protection. Intense heat is being experienced throughout Europe, and deaths from sunstroke in the various capitals are general. Thirteen deaths by boating or bathing fatalities were reported from various parts of the country yesterday. This season has been unusually prolific in fatalities of this kind.

The Pall Mall Gazette is publishing some exposures relative to patents for cordite powder which reflect most gravely upon the conduct of Sir Frederick Abel, the well-known military chemist and secretary of the Imperial Institute. August 18. Mr David Benjamin, formerly of Melbourne, has bequeathed £SOO to the Jewish Synagogue of Melbourne, and £IOO each to the Londsdale-Street Hospital and Jewish Aid Society. The temperature in the shade in the South of England is 90 to 93. Many deaths are reported from the excessive heat, which has also produced a plague of wasps. Owing to the heat the brigades at Aldershot parade in shirt sleeves. The Queen has commanded Sir Evelyn Wood to appear at Orsborne to report on the health of the troops. In consequence of the great heat, harvesting and military operations have been deferred. Sir Evelyn Wood has forbidden parades to be held after 10 o’clock in the morning. Lord Rosebery, yielding to Sir G. Dibbs’s arguments, has again referred the claim of the captain of the barque Costa Rica to the laws officers of the Grown. Ernest Osmond, the well-known cyclist of London, yesterday rode 2 miles in 4min 24 2-sth sec., thus beating the previous record. The Manchester Ship Canal will be opened in January next. Pakis, August IT. The French residents in the New Hebrides have petitioned France to annex the islands. Berlin, August 20, By an explosion of fire-damp in a colliery at Dortmund, in Prussian Westphalia, fifty miners were killed. Vienna, August 18. A mob of two thousand socialists at Prague, who objected to the birthday celebrations in honour of the Austrian Emperor, raised a riot. The police were stoned, and a number of houses were wrecked. Rome, August 19. Cholera is spreading in Turin and Southern Italy. The Japanese Government are demanding that the Japanese in Hawaii shall be placed on an equal footing with Europeans, but the Provisional Government refuse this. Buda-Pesth, August 17. Revolting and sickening details of a baby farm in Warrasdiu ? a town on the Drave, 28 miles north-east of Agram, have been published. It is alleged that children were purposely crippled in order to accompany beggars soliciting alms. Horrible implements of torture were found on the premises. Two children were found with their legs and arms purposely broken. Others had eyes gouged out, and another was doubled VI p between tightly screwed boards, St. Petersburg, August 17. Despite the efforts of officials cholera is spreading in Russia, and the adjoining Austrian province of Galicia. Washington, August 17. Three carriages and a sleeping car dropped through a trestle bridge on the Virginian railway. They fell sixty feet and twelve passengers were killed, besides many injured, New York, August 19. The Countess of Solzberg has committed suicide in New York. A love affair is said to have been the cause. San Francisco, August 18, It is reported that two unknown schooners made a raid on Pribyloff Islands in the Behring Sea. The watchman was gagged, and 100 seals killed, and stores and skins belonging to the lessees stolen. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, August 19. The Act prohibiting the use of the Post Office for the conduct of sweeps and lotteries is now in operation. Hobart, August 18. It was Sir R. Hamilton, ex-Governor of Tasmania, who consented to acs as Agent-General at £SOO per annum. Subsequently, however, he declined, owing to fresh engagements made by him in England.