TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2552, 7 September 1893, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

London, August 31. At tho inquest touching the death of Lieut. Hamborough, it was elicted that Mon son (not Mast on) was formerly a bankrupt army tutor, who failed for £56,000, while his assets were only £4IOO. Lord Dufferin has returned to Paris. Sept 4. A Scotch lady won a million and a-half franco at Monte Carlo, breaking the bank. News is received that the Orient Company’s S.S. Oroya, from Adelaide to London, has run aground in the Suez Canal. It is officially announced that General Sir Heniy W. IN orman, Governor of of IndfaT~ Lord Landsdowne’s term exp ;,, es in December. Obituary—Francis Adams, Australian writer, of consumption. I Details of the death of Emin Pasha upon the Ituria River, show that he was eaten, along with thirty of his escort, by Mangewas. The P;" ,; s correspondent of the Times says that the Socialists form a compact party of 387 in the new Chamber. M. Goblet will prove a powerful leader, upright and austere. Paris, Sept 4. Upon tho second ballot M. Goblet was elected, and M. Floquet and M. Clemenceau defeated. M. Clemenceau’s rejection is due to the charges brought against him of being an enemy of Russia and a secret agent of England. The Republicans have gained sixteen seats. The chief features of the elections is the socialist triumph in Paris. Ten escapees are among those elected. The Republicans number 109, Conservatives 10, Clerical-Republicans 7. M. Goblet will probably be the leader of the Socialists. The Trades Congress and Socialists demand adult suffrage. An illiterate Socialist defeated M. Floquet. The Chamber of Deputies comprises 68 Conservatives, and 613 Republicans, the latter including 25 Ra’lies and 60 Socialists, M. De Villers, French envoy to Siam, has given the Siamese Government three mouths to consider the new commercial treaty, which overrides the treaties of other Powers. Beexxn, Sept 4. The Emperor in) addressing the municipal representatives of Metz before the manoeuvres, said that the army was the corner-stone of Germany’s strength, and destined to be the safeguard of European peace. The military manoeuvres in Metz are being carried out on a scale unequalled in German history. The value of balloons in time of war is being tested. The French press make bitter comments op the presenge of the Prince of Naples at the German army manoeuvres at Met?, which they declare France will never forget. Washington, Sept. 4. The police surprised Dalton’s baud of outlaws at a hotel in Guthrie, Kentucky, and a fight ensued, lasting an hour. Eventually all the outlaws were k’lled except one, who was captured. Five police and civilians were wounded. President Cleveland is confident that the Sherman Act will be repealed before a month is over, and scouts the idea of a compromise. The death roll of tho recent cyclone now amounts to 1500, The corpses are being burnt in large trenches, Calcutta, Sept. 3. Since the ponflpt in Spipataah, iu Pamir, between the Chinese and Afghans, the latter have abandoned their claims to Shignan and Roshan. It is reported that owing to the inability of his Turkestan troops to with stand the. hardships of the climate, Colonel Yauoff has been ordered to Terghana, and the military post at Sarhad has been abandoned. The Russjaps ? however, adhere to the Murgab Valley and Lake Yashilkph

AUSTRALIAN CABLE,

Sydney, Sept. 6

French mails bring particulars of a disastrous fire at Port Louis, Mauritius. The most important and wealthiest and commercial quai ters of the city have been destroyed. The loss is estimated at ten nr lion rupees.

Melbourne, Sept. 5

The bodies of three infants, ipppii Recomposed, \yerp unearthpd at Brqnavpck, a; suburb „pf Mpjbourue. TfipJ police believe that they are on the track of an extensive system of baby-farming, which will probably exceed that carried on by the Makius in Sydney.