TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2652, 28 April 1894, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 25. MrD. Gillies, the new Agent-General for Victoria, has arrived. Mr Candure, husband of the wellknown Australian authoress "Tasma," is dead. It iB reported that M. Carnot declines to stand again for the Presidency. Berlin, April 24. The Emperor is replacing aged army officers with younger men. Thirty generals have resigned. Princess Alice, who is bethrothed to the Czarewitch, has joined the Russian Church. Brussels, April 25. Madame Journax has been committed for trial. Buda Pesxh, April -24'. Three hundred Socialists attacked the Town Hall at Vasahely, in Hungary. The police fired upon the rioters, many of whom were wounded, one fatally, and they arrested six. Washington, April 25. The Tariff Bill has been modified in order to secure the entire Democratic vote in the Senate, and it is predicted that the measure will be passed about the middle of June. Capetown, April 25. The South African Chamber of Commerce are demanding a reduction of the I eastern cable rates. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, April 25. The horses on which the murderers of Mr McKay escaped from Barraba have been found twenty-five miles from the township with their throats cut. A madman was also found near the same spot. April 26. The police have arrested Alexander Lee, a mate of Cummiugs, on a charge of being concerned in the Barraba murder. At the murderers' camp they found a quantity of telling evidence against them. Lee first pretended that he was mad, and afterwards protested his innocence of the crime. There is evidence that the men cut streaks off the horses to satisfy their hunger. Melbourne, April 25. The Victoriau Government yesterday agreed upon the necessity of the proposed Pacific cable only touching lands under British control. Macredie, of the firm of Macredie, Drew and Company, has been committed for trial on a charge of conspiracy to defraud a Parisian firm. Brisbane, April 25. Mr Wragge has advised the shipping of heavy weather from between west and south-west by south between Cape Howe and Hobart, and the southern half of New Zealand, and to be specially cautious owing to a dangerous Antarctic disturbance in latitude 50 south and longtitude 170 east. This, Mr Wragge considers, will cause very rough water over the Tasman Sea in the next few days. April 26. A pearling cutter with her owner and eight of a coloured crew has disappeared. It is supposed to have foundered during the storm at Claremont Island, which caused the wreck of the Clara Ethel. John Smith, an open air agitator, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment at Rockhampton for seditious language. In the course of a speech he referred to " that sauerkrauted old brat," the Queen, and asserted that if he had his way he would blow her sky iiigh. Hobart, April 26. The Marine Conference has decided that each colony should in future only issue two grades of certificates, foreign and coasting vessels to have marked upon the sides the fresh as well as the salt water lines.