TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2651, 26 April 1894, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 22. The memorial of Jenny Lind has been unveiled in Westminister Abbey. The British press generally agree with the proposal submitted by the New Zealand Government for the annexation of Samoa. Donovan, an emergency man, was evicted from a farm at Kanturk in County Cork, and beaten to death. He was also shot in the body by one of the evicting party. The Vienna, St. Petersburg, and Berlin diplomatists regard the betrothal of the Czarewitch and Pincess Alice as a pacific sign. The Standard thinks that it denotes a complete change in the political situation. In the House of Lords, the Colonial Governors Leave of Absence Bill was read a second time. The Government propose a vote of £23,000 to administer Uganda. Mr Gladstone is recovering. Paris, Apiil 22, M. Bouchard, chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into the state of the French Navy, says that none of the torpedoes in use are of a practical type, and that the greatest confusion prevails in the administration of the Naval Department, Count Tallarand Perigood has been arrested in the city for forging bills for 2,000,000 f. M. Teillet, Governor of Miquehan, replaces M. Pardon as Governor of New Caledonia. The latter goes to Gaudeloupe. The French Government have forced Sir Edward Blain to resign the chairmanship of the Brest Railway Company on the grounds that while in his position he gave access to plans for the mobilisation of corps. April 23. Some sensation has been caused by the President issusing a decree forbidding officials in the Diplomatic Service to marry without obtaining the assent of the authorities. The Premier states that this step is rendered necessary on account of a German Jewess, married to a diplomatist, disclosing French secrets. ‘ The ceremony of the beatification of Joan of Arc was celebrated in the Church of Notre Dame yesterday. The Archbishop of Paris blessed the banner of the heroine, which is preserved in the sacred edifice. Negotiations between the French and Belgian Governments to delimit the Congo frontier have fallen through, Brussels, April 22. It is reported that Madame Joniaut, who is in custody on a charge of poisoning her uncle, brother, and sister, has confessed. Athens, April 24. The death roll of the earthquake has increased to 320. The loss of life was especially large in monasteries. It is reported that whole fanrlies were engulfed while attending church. The spire of the Byzantine church at Daphne was shattered, and its fall wrecked the whole building. St. Petersburg, April 23. The wedding of the Czarewitch with Princess Alice of Hesse will be celebrated here in August. Two hundred arrests have been made in Poland in connection with the commemoration of Warsaw’s revolution. Athens, April 22, Immense damage has been done to the surrounding districts by the earthquakes, which still continue. Great alarm is felt. It is believed that 260 persons have been buried alive in the country districts. The King has decided to visit the various districts which have suffered. Thebes is ruined through the earthquakes. Lisbon, April 23. Cholera has appeared in Galicia, Hungary, and Lisbon. Washington, April 23. President Cleveland has appealed to Democrats to fulfil their pledges regarding the tariff. New York, April 22. The New York Herald says that documents belonging to Admiral de Gama indicate that British and Portuguese officials tried to restore monarchy in Brazil. Buenos 4va.Ea, April 23. Jabez Balfour is living at the house of a Miss Freeman, and it is expected that he will endeavour to escape. The British Consul is watching the house.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, April 23. A new political organisation called the “Landowners’ Defence League” has been formed in opposition to the Single Tax Society. A cesspit in a suburban public sphqql collapsed this afternoon, precipitating 14 girls to the bottom of it. They were rescued, but only after a terrible struggle. Two were brought to the surface in an unconscious state. Two men, one an Indian and the other a local resident, have been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of the Posset. They detected pawning some of the victim’s jewellery. April 24. James Jamieson alum Thunder bolt (not the bushranger known under that name, v,ho was shot in 1.870), a notorious criminal has been released from gaol after serving a sentence of over thirty years. Justice, a Socialistic Weekly newspaper, in its last made a torn tic onslaught on *7r .Mattery, Minister of d'ndico. To-day Mr Mattery instructed his solicitors tp, institute legal proceedings against Thomas Dobbs, the Socialist leader,' ami other proprietors of the paper. Melbourne, April 23. The Rev. Mr Marshall, of Scots Church, suggests tho initiation of a crusade against gambling, and in ardor to minimise betting, advocates tho introduction of tho totalisator. Ho also says that good would result if tho leading newspapers would combine in refusing to publish betting quotations. April 34. The value of the exports for the March quarter decreased by ,411,149.,00.0, The decline, which is engaging the serious attention of ia attributed to

the high wharfage rates and primage tax, which are having the effect of making Sydney the pivot of the Australian trade. Adelaide, April 23.

A train ran over a cab on the port Adelaide line, the driver being killed, and two of the occupants fatally injured. April 24,

One hundred ond fifty disgusted miners have returned from the Coolgardie rush. One of them asserts that not one-tenth of the men on the field are making tucker. Brisbane, April 24.

A fearful hurricane swept the Rock River Goldfields, accompanied by tremendous rainfall. A tree fell on throe miners, killing two and injuring the third. Sir 0. Lilley, addressing an enormous meeting, said that he looked forward to the salvation of Australia by women’s influence on Parliamentary morals. He trusted that in the near future the women of Queensland would remodel the Parliament of the colony as they would eventually do in the rest of what must become a great Australian federation. Hobart, April 23. Lord Gormanston, the Governor, had a narrow escape of losing his life while on a visit to the Lake district. He mistook the nature of the ground, and sank in the reeds up to his armpits, but a constable held him up till assistance was procured. The Norweigan whaler Antarctic has put into harbour to make arrangements for shipping her take of oil to England. She does not begin her cruise to the south of New Zealand until July. Perth, April 24. Traffic between Southern Cross and Coolgardie is officially suspended on account of the want of water.