TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2621, 15 February 1894, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, Feb. 11. The football match between England and Ireland resulted in a win for England. Sir G. Carbone, Crown Advocate at Malta, replying to the Privy Council, reports that the Pope is unable to see his way to validate mixed marriages, the question of which was included in the dispute between the British authorities and the Vatican.

Lord Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice of England, is stated to be retiring, and Sir Charles Rusßell is mentioned as his successor.

Princess Ina, daughter of Princess Beatrice of Battenburg, was thrown on her head to-day while out riding at Osborne. Her injuries are of rather a serious nature. Feb. 12. Sir A. Clark, acting Agent-General of Victoria, has received an offer from a responsible Manchester firm to run a line of five steamers between Manchester, Australia, and New Zealand, conveying Manchester goods to the colonies, and returning with colonial produce. The firm ask if the colonial Governments will co-operate in supporting the line. Mr Wilson, of the Investors' Review, writing in the Chronicle, alleges that New Zealand surpluses exist only on paper. He contends that in three years the colony has slyly increased the debt by £1,500,000. Sir W. B. Perceval, replying to the attack by the Financial News on New Zealand surpluses, says that the increased debt of the colony is owing to a conversion which would result in a saving of £30,000 annually. Princess Ina has regained consciousness and is slowly recoveriug from the effects of her accident.

The correspondent of the Standard at Constantinople bays that the Turks are trying to goad the Armenians into rehellion. Obituary.—Sir Harry Verney, aged 93. A hurricane has been experienced over the larger portion of Great Britain. At Dudley, in Worcestershire, a number of factories were wrecked. At East Cloister, in Norfolk, churches were unroofed and a steamer was swamped. Lifeboats sent assistance later, and resuced seventy-five of those on board.

The Admiralty have decided to draft fifty junior officers and 900 men out of the Reserve into the Navy in order to supply the deficiency. Roberts, the billiard .champion, allows Memmott, of Melbourne, half points in a spot-barred game of 20,000. Paris, Feb. 11.

M. Button, editor of the Socialist, a paper published in the city, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for the authorship of an article threatening President Carnot's life in the event of Vaillant being executed. Feb, 13.

A young Anarchist named Brenton, in revenge for Vaillant's execution, entered the Cafe Lezaire Terminus Hotel in Paris, and threw a bomb. The explosion killed one person and injured fifteen others. The perpetrator made desperate efforts to escape, and severely wounded a policeman and a woman with a revolver before he waß captured. The mob endeavoured to lynch the prisoner, who declared that further outrages had been arranged. Constantinople, Feb. 13. Several deaths from tholera have been reported here. Caibo, Feb. 13.

At the instance of Colonel Kitchener, the Khedive haa promoted several English officers. Ottawa, Feb. 12. The Upper House of a ova Scotia has sent a petition to the Queen, asking Her Majesty not to grant the request of the House of Assembly for the abolition of the Council. Washington, Feb. 13.

President Cleveland deoliues to forcibly overthrow the Provisional Government in Hawaii.' A severe snowstorm has been experienced iu the Western States. Traffic ia blocked, and a largo number of cattle have been lost.

The Argentine Government have ordered Jabez Balfour to be removed out of the court, but he is to be retained in custody, pending the arrival of legal documents and detectives. Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 13.

A fierce attack made by the insurgents on Armacao was repulsed by the garrison. Both sides lost heavily. Admiral de Gama, on the insurgent side, waß twice wounded. The rebels have defeated the Government at Omubu, and killed three hundred men. Belize, Feb. 12. The Governor of Tegucigalpa, in Honduras, repulsed the insurgent force beseiging the town, with a loss of one hundred. ♦ AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Feb. 12. The Telegraph publishes an article praising the taxation policy of New Zea- **> Feb. 13. News has been received by the Government of the discovery of a new reef at Hillend, a crushing yielding at the rate of lOOozs per ton. The reef can be traced along the surfaco for iive hundred has been sentenced to three years'" 0 imprisonment for embezzling monoy belonging to the London Bank of Australia. Newcastle, rub. id. Captain Robertson, of the Timaru Harbour Board's drodgo No. 404. is dead. Ho was taken ashore f'om the vessel a few days ago in a very low Btato. Melbourne, Feb. 12. The Premier has announced that the jU-oyomment intend to iinnly repress the distribution of properties by lottery, as ho considers thai fit yAjl not help the colony out of her difliiuulties, but eucourage a spirit of gambling. It is estimated tliat the recent Gippslaud Hoods will cost £50,000 to repair ! damages. Feb. 13.

Tho Cabinet have decided, after considering the tendency of the high rates of interest chargod by the banks to cripple yuterpriaoj to * wlww ( <w '<&'

vancing money at 5 per cent, to small landholders from the Savings Banks. Adelaide, Feb. 13. A gentleman named Horn has intimated his willingness to arrange an expedition to scientifically examine the McDonnell ranges at his own expense. It is proposed to invite scientists' from Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales, to accompany the expedition. It is expected that Professor Tate will be the local representative. Brisbane, Feb. 12. The British India Company's steamer Dorunda, which was on* fire, has arrived at Java safely. One thousand bales of wool and forty cases of preserved meats have been damaged, while the vessel herself has also suffered severe damage. Jackey, the Dora Dora black who cleverly escaped from the custody of the police, has been re-captured.