TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2656, 8 May 1894, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, May 3. Sir J. C. Bray resigns the AgentGeneralship of South Australia immediately, and returns to Adelaide. ; Mr Gladstone, speaking at a meeting to consider the proposed memorial to the late Sir Andrew Clarke, said that modern luxurg was increasing, and disease was demanding a greater development from the doctors and additional skill. The Court decided that the Rev. Mr Tollemache was insane. , In the match against Diggle Roberts made an unfinished spot barsed break of 1033 in 59 J minutes. May 4. Habner, an Englishman, claims to have invented a bullet-proof dress superior to that of Downs. He intends the patent rights to -the War Office, free of any charge. The Calcutta correspondent of the Spectator has sent an alarming article predicting another Indian mutiny. He bases his opinion on the fact of the natives smearing trees, and other fanatical indications. Roberts, the billiard champion, has made a break of 1392 in 81 minutes. By a fire at Arnett's, in Dublin, damage to the amount of £IOO,OOO was done. Cholera is reported to be prevalent at Kieff and Padolia. Paris, May 3. The tribunals have ordered Oberud, the banker, to return the sum of 4,000,000 francs which he received for issuing Panama Canal bonds. The prosecution of Dr Hertz in connection with the Panama Canal fraud, has been abandoned, he having paid the Jiquidators 1,500,000 francs. The executors in the estate of M. Rienech have paid the same amount. A fire at Toulon arsenal destroyed material to the value of £200,000. Great Britain has entered a protest claiming that Russia hss no right to use the French ports in the Mediterranean. Rome, May 4. Baron Blane, the Italian Foreign Minister, declines to sha/e in the partition of the African. Mediterranean coast in order not to give cause of offence to France. Brussels, May 4. A dynamite explosion took place at a doctor’s house in Liege. His wife was the only person injured. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, May 4. Dr Talraage leaves San Francisco for Australia by the Alameda about the end of the month. The full Court dismissed the points reserved in the trial of Montgomery and Williams who were sentenced to death for attempting to murder the police cop stables who tried to arrest them for breaking into the Union. Company’s forces. An Italian fisherman, named Augusta Carlissi, while engaged cleaning fish which his landlady had bought, shot the servant girl, Mary Piaggi, aged 14, dead, and than committed suicide. It is supposed that Oarlissi’s action was prompted by ill-feeling between himself and the girl’s parents, and that he revenged himself by shooting the daughter. May 5. Lees and Cummins have been committed for trial for the murder of Mr McKay, bank manager at Barraba. Melbourne, May 4. The Argus says that while it is unnecessary to go into the difficulty between New South Wales and New Zealand, as to how Samoa shall be governed, the great thing is to bring the group under the British flag. It is a thousand pities, however, that at this preliminary stage Australia could not present an united front. Brisbane, May 4. The blacks on Batavia river sacked a miners’ camp, and speared a well-known prospector named Baird to death, and dangerously wounded two others. They also took the rifles and ammunition belonging to the men. A police force has been despatched to the scene of the outrage, Prth, May 4. A dynamite outrage has been perpetrated in the York Roman Catholic Presbytery, the building being reduced to ruins by the explosion. Charges wore placed in the vicinity of Father Gibuey’s bedroom, but the rev. gentleman, although bruised, escaped serious injury.