TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2596, 19 December 1893, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, Dec. 15.

The explosion of gunpowder at the Government powder mills, Waltham Abbey, has resulted in the death of five persons. The Princess of Wales is suffering from an attack of influenza, and the Speaker of the House of Commons is also prostrated by the disease. The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge proposes to grant £IOOO towards the clergy endowment fund in Brisbane, and £IOOO towards the completion of the Adelaide Cathedral. Dr Kennion, Bishop of Adelaide, has collected £15,000. In the course of some remarks at the opening ceremony of a school, the Prince of Wales said that the Queen’s early desire with regard to the extension of primary education was being realised, and Her Majesty hoped that schools, industrial buildings, and dwellings, would yet be 'built on sites now occupied by prisons. In the libel action, Ziereuberg v. Labouchere, a verdict for defendant was returned. The case arose out of some comments which had appeared in Truth on December Bth, 1892, which adversely criticised the manner of conducting the St. James’ Home for Female Inebriates. Some of the evidence adduced at the trial of Monson for the Ardlamont murder is of a revolting character. Trial experiments have been made on dead bodies in the mortuary in Edinburgh, with a view to ascertaining the effect of shot and the force of its penetration into the human body. Judging from the evidence thus attained, the shot which killed Lieutenant Hamborough must have been fired at a distance of Oft.

The Bishop of Cork has been elected Primate of Ireland,

The Queen visits Florence in March. Several fresh arrests have been made in Dublin in connection with the murder of the man Reid by members of a secret society, who feared that he had revealed the secrets of the order of the police.

Mr Sydney Buxton, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, replying to a despatch from the Queensland Premier, admits that the French cable, connecting Queensland with New Caledonia, will prevent recidivistes escaping from the latter island to Australia.

Dec. 16

The Privy Council has allowed the appeal in the case of Black v. Christchurch Finance Company, with costs. Black sued the company in Christchurch for damage done to his crop of grass seed through a fire lit on their land at Akaroa, and obtained a verdict for £I6OO, The company appealed and obtained a reversal of the verdict, but Black carried the case to the Privy Council, which has decided in his favour.

Paris, Dec. 14,

The police continue their investigations in connection with the recent explosion with great energy, and claim to have discovered a startling conspiracy in the city. The employer of Yaillant has been ararrested.

Dec. 16,

The Chamber of Deputies has p&seed the measures introduced by the Premier for the repression of Anarchists. Madrid, Dec. 14 Further important arrests of Anarchists have been effected at Barcelona,

Deo. 15. One hundred and forty-three Anarchists are imprisoned at Barcelona. Cairo, Dec. 14.

The Egyptian Legislative Council suggested that a policy of economy be adopted by refusing to pay the costs of British occupation, and by abolishing the offices set up to repress slavery, and those controlling the prisons. St. Petersburg, Dec. 16.

A fierce fight has taken place in one of the suburbs of Moscow between a detachment of police and a number of Nihilists whom they were attempting to arrest. Fifteen of the police were injured. Five Nihilists committed suicide, 22 escaped, and 50 were captured. New York, Dec. 16.

News has bean received that the bombardment in Bio de Janeiro has been resumed, and that many lives have been lost.

A bridge over the Opio River in Louisville collapsed, and twelve persona were drowned.

The daughter of Mr McKay, “ the Silver King,” is seeking a divorce from her husband, Prince Golonua, on the ground of his extravagance. San Francisco, Dec. 15.

The American league in Honolulu appeals to the people to prevent the restoration of a corrupt monarchy. Washington, Dec. 14.

It is belived that President Cleveland desires that after restoring the Queen of Hawaii, an Anglo-American protectorate should be established over the Sandwich Isalnds, similar to that which controls Samoa.

Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 14,

President Peixoto ordered fifteen of the officers and crew of the man-of-war Paratnabyla to be shot on suspicion of favouring the rebels. The firing party, however, tried to miss them, and only five were killed. The rest were to gaol, AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Deo. 15. A mad Indian attempted to interview Sir G. R. Dibbs with a powder flask and an unloaded revolver in his possession. Ho was promptly arrested. Owing to insufficient information as to dates, the Cyclists’ Union has decided to allow the question of sending a team to compete at the Now Zealand championship meeting to stand over till next season.

Owing to compqlsftfy retirements under the Government retrenchment scheme there has been a severe strain on the Civil Service Superannuation Fund, and the Government there havo been appealed to to place the fund in a solvent condition. The income amounts to £6OOO per month,. wh,ile the expenditure reaches £BOOO per month. B.ush Ores in the Narrandera district have been almost extinguished. They burnt oyer nearly 100, miles of country. f £wo, Chinamen quarrelled near Bauusdale, when one chopped the other to dsath with a tomahawk, and thou com-

mitted suicide by cutting open his. abdomen with the same weapon. A,terribly impressive scene occurred in the Supreme Court while the Judge was sentencing the woman Knprr to death for child-murder. She had to be supported in the dock. At the conclusion she fainted away. His Honour held out no hopes of the sentence being commuted. In the Speight v Syme libel action, Mr Purves is still addressing thp Court for the defence. Dealing with the locomotive branch to-day, he characterised: Mr Allison Smith as a smasher tip uuparalelled in history, and said that he would have made a rare iconoclast had he lived in the Middle Ages.

Dec. 17

A letter passed by the Council of the Anglican Churches and signed by, the Primate,urges, the. electors not,only to consider the capacity, but to give special weight to the character of candidates at the coming election. i The Sunday Times publishes an account of an interview with the alleged head of the “ Active Service Brigade.” •whose performances are prominently before the public at the present time. The society is a semi-secret one, with its headquarters in New Zealand., Its , business inananger is unknown, and the council is composed of the leaders of the social reform movement. The alleged head stated that the society has 9000 members and that the leading plank of its platform is antagonism to banking institutions. A half-decked yacht capsized in the harbor to-day, when Mr and Mrs Lameslee, Misses Bertha Hilton, and Annie Owen Hegarthy, were drowned. Messrs Rider, Kingsbury, and French are missing. Five others were rescued. A girl, near Bendigo, suffering severely from face-ache, lit a fire in the hollow , of a tree and committed suicide by throwing herself into the blaze. A rabbitter named Fitzsimmouds, living at Werribee, attacked his wife with a pick-handle, beat hisfather-in-law almost to death, and then attempted suicide with a razor. There is no hope of the father-in-law recovering but there is some chance of saving the others. Melbourne, Dec. 14.

A piece of paper has been picked up at Port Melbourne, stating that the ship Ontario, bound from Canton to Melbourne has been lost off the Phillipine Islands, and the crew are making for Singapore in the vessel’s boats. Adelaide, Dec. 15. The Legislative Council has passed an additional Income Tax Bill.

Dec. 16,

The budget of the .Northern Territory shows that the finances are going from bad to worse. Were it not for the interest on the debt incurred on account of public works the revenue would not meet the expenditure. Brisbane, Dec. 15.

The Premier leaves to-morrow on a visit to New Zealand for the sake of his health.

Five native troopers escaped, down the Duels river, but the other five are believed to be killed. Fully 300 natives took part in the attack on the police forc<v

Large punitive for- 8 are despatched to th o uc i e River to capture or puais ' natives who killed a number of black troopers lately. It is understood that within a few days rates on the Queensland railways will be assimilated, and the Zone system introduced. *

Hobakt, Dec. 15. A rich discovery of silver ore has been made in the Mount Lyell mine. Seventy tons of ore taken while cutting a cnamber at the 50ft level, when assayed yielded 98,0000zs of silver. Pbeth, Deo. 16. Eight aborigines were burned to death in a bush lire at Lake Byre. A telegraph lineman escaped only by galloping thirteen miles in front of the lire.