TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2631, 10 March 1894, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, March 7. Dr Charles J. Vaughan, Dean of Llandaff, is sinking. When Behanzin, King of Dahomey, made up his mind to surrender, ho beheaded his mother, directing her to inform his dead father of his intentions. The ship Vandura, bound to Port Pirie, was wrecked in the gale near Cardiff. Sir F. C. Lascelles, British Envoy at Teheran, will succeed Sir B. Morier as ambassador at St. Petursburg. The British troops near Bathurst are burning the villages of the marauders without resistance. Four gunboats will combine with the laud forces in attacking the stronghold of Fodislah. - March 8. Advices from the West Coast of Africa, state that Major Redden’s column has captured Jambur, and is advancing against Fodishlah’s stronghold. Liudus, who shot his wife and_ her solicitor in London, has been committed for trial. Bubear and Barry have made a match to be rowed on the Thames.

The man Carter, who threatened to kill the Queen unless his claims to an earldom were recognised, has been adjudged insane, and ordered to be confined in an asylum. Hudart Parker’s Atlantic service will begin in the spring of 1896. It is expected that Australian mails will be landed in England in twenty-five days. Berlin, March 7. Von Caprivi, the German Chancellor, intends to resign, owing to a difference yvith the Secretary of the Treasury in regard to the commercial treaty with Russia. Rome, March 6. The treaty between Spain and Morocco has been concluded. St. Petersburg, March 7. The Russian Government have decided to add two hundred batteries of artillery to the army. Washington, March 7. A section of the Democrats has coalesced with the Republicans to stonewall the tariff. Chicago, March 6. A plot has been discovered among the French anarchists to dynamite the French Consulate here, Buenos Ayres, March 6. Jabez Balfour had the assurance to tell an interviewer that he had entire confidence in the justice of God. Capetown, March 7. Owing to the Portuguese obstructing the building of the telegraph line to Zambesi, the British gunboat Mosquito landed a party at Tete, who fired on the Portuguese. The Governor of Quilimanc thereupon ordered a reinforcement up the river to assist his troops.