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Temuka Leader, Issue 2600, 28 December 1893, Page 3

-The follow ng players have -« play for Temuka against Ashburton at Temuka to- morrow . Dann, Djgnan, Gtfllespie, McLean, Ferguson, Hayhurst, Heap, Jtfendelson, Brown, Hg,yes, ari# Goldsione. Emergency McCaskill. The match begins at 10 a.m. A full practice of the above players will take place tfcja 9,i tcrftooft $,% 3 q'qlqqls.

Hugh John Macdouald, son of the late Premier of Canada, and member of Parliament for Winnipeg, has handed in his resignation to the Speaker of the Canadian Parliament. He is tired of public life and abandons it. Clarence King, once director of the United States geological survey, and who in 1872 exposed the great diamond field hoax in the west of the United States, has been committed to an insane asylum in .New York. The overland railways are in trouble tho United States Government intends to commence foreclosure proceedings against the Union Pacific, and th® Farmers' Loan and Trust Company o* New York, brought a suit at St. Paulj Minneapolis, on November 14, for the foreclosure of the mortgages of three sets of bonds on the Northern Pacific, aggregating 53,080,000d01, and asked for the appointment of a receiver. A letter from a Spanish agent-general of a commercial house in London, dated November 14, says the condition of affairs in Spain is decidedly critical. Public confidence is at the loweßt ebb, the Government and army officers are in a state of panic, and the army is notoriously disaffected, owing to the fact that pay is in arrear.