TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2573, 26 October 1893, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Oct. 23. The Standard says that if the turquoises found at King Elver in Victoria keep their colour, the value of the discovery will far exceed that of the Persian mines. Obituary—Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, and the Archbishop of Armagh. At a meeting held at Cork to urge the granting of an amnesty to political prisoners, Mr J, E, Eedmond declared that Ireland’s leading position in politics was due to the action of the dynamiters, which he said, Mr Gladstone had admitted. Oct. 24.

Mr John Eedmond has notified the Government whips that they cannot rely on the support of the Parnellites unless the Government undertake to deal with the question of evicted tenants, and reintroduce the Home Eule Bill in the autumn session, and agree to a dissolution in 1894.

The Times Washington correspondent wires that President Cleveland approves of the silver compromise, providing for the purchase of 4,500,000 ounces monthly until October, 1894. The Socialists held a mass meeting in Trafalgar Square, and resolutions were passed, demanding universal adult suffrage, including women over the age of twenty-one. The Times states that the enquiries made by Mr Huddart prove that there is a great future for the trade between Canada and the colonies, and indicate a prospect of the construction of the Pacific cable. It adds that that the subsidy granted by New South Wales and Queensland to the New Caledonia cable was a false step, and that a British cable must be constructed before the French extend their recently laid cable. Paris, Oct. 23.

Marshal MaoMahon was buried yesterday, the ceremony being conducted with great military pomp. Queen Victoria and Emperor William of Germany sent wreaths.

The Russian Admiral Avelon was present at Marshal Mac Mahon’s funeral. He expressed his thanks for the “ supernatural ” reception which the officers and men of the Russian fleet had received from the French people, and said that in the Middle Ages they possessed the truce of God, but to-day it was the truce of Russia. Rome, Oct. 23.

The Vatican has sent a Commission to Paris to enquire into the necessity of removing the funds there in the event of France becoming engaged in war. Zanzibar, Oct. 23.

Sir Gerald Portal, the British Commissioner, has arrived at Zanzibar from Uganda. Morocco, Oct. 23.

The Kabyles having refused to remove the earthworks at Melilla, the Spanish warships opened fire, and demolished them with thirty shells. The Moorish riflemen replied to the bombardment, but without effect. Washington, Oct. 22.

Senator Vorhees has given notice to move that the time closure be applied in the Senate in connection with the Silver Repeal Bill. New York, Oct. 23.

News has been received that the rebels in the province of the Rio Grande, Brazil, defeated the Royalists at Ibicui, after a severe fight. The Royalists lost a thousand men.

News has been received from Hayti of the discovery of a conspiracy to overthrow the Government. A member of the Ministry has been arrested for complicity in the affair, and it is expected that he will be executed.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, Oct. 24. Captain Audley Coote states that there is no need to doubt that the cable will be completed to Vancouver, The second section, he says, will be to Fiji, the third to Samoa, the fourth to Hawaii, and the next to Vancouver, and possibly to Sau Francisco. Reviewing the schema _ posed by Mr Sandford . Fl*- ‘ ho P de '- dares that it yrould e impossible to lay a PaQjqg cao i(J no |. touching foreign territory.

Melbourne, Oct. 23. The full Court dismissed the objection raised against the warrants in tha Milledge cases. Adelaide, Oct. 23. Mr M. W. Green, an ex-New Zealand legislator, was thrown from a tricycle and received severe injuries. He is in a critical condition.

Brussels, Oct. 23. Blantern, the murderer of Flora McDonald, was executed to day, death being instantaneous. Previous to his execution the convict confessed his crime. Hobart, Oct. 24.

Although the Legislative Council is extremely hostile to the principle of graduated taxation, it is likely to allow the Ministers’ new measures to pass as a matter of urgency, to be followo I by a dissolution.

Mr Hutchison, proprietor of the Prince Alfred Hotel, Dunedin, a saloon passenger by the Waihora from the Bluff, was found dead in his berth on Saturday, with a leather rug-trap tightly fastened round his neck.