TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2649, 21 April 1894, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 17. It is expected that Mr C. J. Hogan and Mr Alfred Garrick will join the directorate of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Mr Henry J. Bristow has declined to rejoin the board. The bond-holders of the 1879 issue are asking for larger representation on the board. The following is the result of the race for the City and Suburban Handicap ; Paddy 1, Bushey 2, Medici 3. The Duke of Westminister left Las Palmas for here on the 13th. The refrigerator has worked well, and the dairy produce is in good order. The Globe says that H.M.S. Curacoa, at present on the Australian station, is in a shameful condition, and ought to be ordered home. April 18. The Budget proposals are well received in the provinces. The Very Rev. Dr Vaughan, resigns the Mastership of the Temple. Sir Thomas Mcllwraith paid a visit to the Salvation Army farm colony at Hadleigh, and was so pleased with what he saw that he afterwards wrote to General Booth, expressing his high opinion of the scheme, and complimenting the Salvation Army officials upon their administration of the settlement.

Mr Hall, a gentleman who purchased Oumnor Place, in the belief that he was acquiring Amy Eobsart’s prison, commonly reported to be haunted by her ghost, sued the Earl of Abington to re* scind the purchase, on the ground that it is not the original historic place. A verdict was given in favour of the Earl. The City and Suburban Handicap at Epsom resulted as follows:—Greyleg 1, Hurry 2, Lewisham 3. The ship Mercator, 1482 tons, which left Geelong on September 16th for the English Channel to receive orders, has been posted as missing. Four hundred and fifty Anglican clergy have appealed to the Archbishop of Canterbury to support working Parish Councils.

Paris, Apiil 17. The French Budget shows a deficiency of 139,000,000 francs. Eight candidates have been nominat ed for the Presidency of the French Republic. They include MM. Carnot, Perrier, Dupuy, Laoour, and Melin. April 18.

The French police have seized forged bank notes to the value of 250,000 francs. Berlin, April 18. Queen Victoria received a groat ovation on her arrival at Coburg. The Vossiche Zoitung strongly urges Germany to permit the Australian colonies to appoint a Governor of San* lo a,

April 18. It is reported that the Czar refused to agree to the disarmament proposals of the Triple Alliance unless Germany and France first abandoned their quarrel. The Reichstag has rejected the principal clause in the Tobacco Taxation Bill. Rome, April 19,

General Goggao, an officer in the Italian army, has been arrested at Monaco on suspicion of being a spy. A number of incriminating documents were found in his possession. Brussels, April 18.

Madame Joneaux, a lady well-known in high society in Antwerp, has been arrested on a charge of poisoning her uncle, brother, and sister, in order to obtain the amount of their life insurance policies, which represented the sum of £6OOO. The victims died by slow poisoning. St. Petersburg, April 18.

The Czar was requested by the countries forming the Triple Alliance, to convene a Congress to consider the advisability of a general disarmament throughout Europe, but ho refused to entertain the suggestion. Ottawa, April 18. Sir J. S. D. Thompson says that the United States Government have refused to consider the Canadian reciprocal proposals unless through Great Britain. St. John’s, April 17.

The Newfoundland Parliament has prorogued, pending the hearing of an election petition. Washington, April 18.

Senator Lodge has moved to impose retaliatory duties on British and Australian goods until Great Britain agrees to coinage, and the use of silver.

AUSTRALIAN CABLK. Sydney, April 18. The new discovery at Wyaloug is reported to be a duller. April 19. The alluvial goldfield at Biayuey is yielding IJozs to 2ozs per dish. A man named Goggins has been arrested for complicity in the Alcock diamond robbery in August last. Heavy gales are raging along the New South Wales coast. Bain is more general over the whole of Australia than has been the case for many years past, and the Bourke is in danger of inundation, M'OfcnovKNE, April 18. A CQihlo from England announces the death of Madame Carandiui. A mass of metal weighing 40to, containing 300ozs of pure gold has been unearthed at Dayleaford, f 5 miles north from Melbourne, In the Federal Bank cases further argument was heard on the application for the removal of the liquidator. Counsel for the defence said there was nothing in the articles of association to prohibit the lending of money to the directors of tl\e bank, and remarked that the directors came very holly nut of their transactions. “Yes,” retorted thp Judge, ‘‘but the people whoso money they took came out worse. They speculated with other people's money, and caused an enormous amount of misery. This is the real truth.” In the libel action, Hayes v Australasian, the jury disagreed and wore discharged. A Frenchman named Eugene Posset, GO years of ago, was found murdered in North Melbourne. 11 is hands and lent wore tied, and ho had app.irtmtly been battered to death. There was also gunshot wounds in the body. Robbery was evidently the motive for the crime. A woman named Burgess, who resides in the tame house aa the murdered muu, haa

been arrested on a nominal charge of vagrancy.