TELEGRAMS.
ENGLISH AND FOREIGN
London, Dec. 13. The Duke of Coburg has resigned his allowance from the Imperial "Parliament. The Company's patrols have seized Lobengula's cattle. The trial of Monson, for the Ardlamont murder, has begun. The case is causing great excitement in Scotland. The man Scott, supposed to be an accomplice, has not yet been arrested. The evidence given lip to the present in the direction of showing that the theory that death was the result of accident is unlikely, as the pellet marks on the tree do not coincide with the direction of the wound. The House of Lords has carried a motion expressing sympathy with the French Cabinet. The Marquis of Salisbury advocated an international agreement for the prevention of such outrages. Dec. 14. The deaths from influenza in London during the week numbered 127. A severe gale has been experienced on the south coast of England. Great damage was done to churches and railway stations, and several lives were lost. An explosion of gunpowder occurred at the Government powder mills at Waltham Abbey, in Essex. Two persons were killed an a number injured. Much damage was done to property. Most minute precautions are being taken at Dublin Barracks, owing to information received that the dynamiters intend to make an attempt on them. Eton College is being guarded against Anarchist plots. The leaders of the Tower Hill plot threaten a reign of terror in London unless work is found for the unemployed before Christmas.
In the Kugby football match between Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the former won.
Mr Gladstone is much affected by the discovery of the body of an old valet of his, named Meadoc Outram, in the Thames. It is believed to be a case of suicide.
A man named Mass, a clerk in the city, charged with stealiug £20,000, committed suicide in the presence of his employers. Sir Julius Vogel will read a paper at the Imperial Institute to-morrow on colonial subjects. It considers it doubtful if New Zealand would fgree to federate with Australia, and believes that a colonial zollverien with local freetrade would be a signal advantage. San Francisco, Dec. 4.
A temporary Government has been set up in Hawaii, and a thousand soldiers hold the palace.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2595, 16 December 1893, Page 1
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375TELEGRAMS. Temuka Leader, Issue 2595, 16 December 1893, Page 1
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