TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2705, 30 August 1894, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN,

London. Aug. 26.

The St. James Gazette says that Mr Reid, of New South Wales, and Mr Rhodes, of South Africa are racing for hirst to form a Federal Dominion. The Bishop elect of Wellington marries Miss Williams in October. Berlin, Aug. 26. Germany intends to build two railways to the southern frontier in order to enable troops to be rapidly mobilised in the direction of Belfort, a strofig French fortress a short distance across the border. Owing to frequent subsidences in Eisleben, a town of Prussian Saxony, destroying the houses, it is reported that Abajwhole population aredeparting. The cause is believed to be, failure to drain a swamp which is undermining the town. Aug. 27.. It is reported that the cannibal habits of the Soudanese troftps employed by the German authorities in the Cameroonsare creating a reign of terror. M. Stambouloff,. the deposed Premier of Bulgaria, had an interview with a representative of: the Frank Furber Zeitung, at which he made some remarkable' statements. He declared that Prince Ferdinand would not be allowed to sacrifice Bulgaria to Russia merely to gratify his personal vanity. He further declared that the Russian Government had offered him 5,000,000 roubles to depose Prince Ferdinand, but ho declined, as he preferred to be hanged in Bulgaria to living in Russia. Rome, Aug. 26.

The Italian Government are resuming the construction; of strong fortifications oh the Austrian and Swiss frontiers, i Fresh disturbances have broken out in Sicily, and the situation there is regarded as grave. . ■ Vienna, Aug. 26.

; The citizens of Boschewen have murdered a wealthy Jewish family consisting of nine persons. St. Petersburg, Aug. 26, ; Cholera is increasing in St. Petersburg, Warsaw, and Western .Russia. New York, August 26. Mr Hatch, the British Consul at Bluefields, who was arrested by the Nicaraguans, dropped a paper outside his prison. The message was conveyed to the English cruiser Mowhawk, and the Consul was at once rescued.

; A colliery at Seattle, in Washington Territory, caught fire, and a hundred miners were entombed. Thirty-seven corpses have been taken out horribly burned. Owing to the roofs of the drives falling in, the rescue party was unable to reach the others, and they are believed to be'dead.

Washington, Aug. 28. The Tariff Bill became law at midnight by effluxion of time. The President declined to sign the measure, though admitting that it was vastly superior to McKinley’s Bill. He desires to see the free admission of raw materials, and will wage a further fight for tariff reforms. He states that the action of the Sugar Trust will never be forgotten in the United States.

The New York Herald publishes despatches, showing that the Nicaraguans were determined to punish Consul Hatch to the full extent of their power, if he had not escaped. Calcutta, Aug. 27. A dam at Lake Gohura, in Bengal, burst, and a whole valley was flooded. The engineers, however, had foreseen the probabUity of the catastrophe, and were watching the dam. Timely warning was given, and the Villagers to the number of a thousand were taken out of harm’s way by special train.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Aug. 27. According to English papers, the Duke and Duchess of York leave for Sydney early in November, in one of the finest line of battle ships, with an escort of six first-class cruisers of the Crescent type. Aug. 28

Parliament was opened this afternoon. The Governor’s Speech promises a Land Bill, and a Local Government Bill. The latter provides a system of Divisional Boards, similar to those of Queensland, in sparsely populated districts, while the Municipalities Act will be brought into operation in the more thickly populated parts. A more comprehensive measure will probably be introduced in the near future. Other measures mentioned in the Speech are the Land and Income Tax Bills, light railways to open up the interior, federation, coal mines regulation, navigation, and amendment of the Factories and Workshops Acts. The Government intend to insist upon adequate reparation being made for the seizure of the Costa Rica Packet. They also intend to prepare a measure for the compulsory investigation of trade and the repeal of the Customs Tariff of 1891.

The Legislative Council have adopted the Address ia Reply to the Speech from the Throne.

In the Legislative Assembly, Sir G. R. Dibba has moved an amendment to the Address-iu-Reply condemning the Governmest for publicly announcing that they would demand a dissolution if Parliament did not accept the new policy. The Government accepted the amendment ns one of want of confidence and decided to proceed with the debate at at once. In his remarks on the amendment Mr Sleath drew attention to the shearers’ trouble, and the whole question is now under debate.

Tho steamer Celtic King collided with the steamer Nemesis in Darling harbour last night, cutting tho bows of the latter through tho forcastlo head of the main deck. The men’s quarters were totally wrecked. The Celtic King only received slight injuries.

Melbourne, Aug. 27. One of the children tomahawked at Maryborough is dead.

The woman Anderson who was sentenced to death for the murder of her lodger, Fraser, in a fit of jealousy, has had her sentence commuted to imprisonment for life.

Adelaide, August 27

Tho Premier has applied to Mr Reed’s circular that ho is anxious to assist tho establishment of Federation at an early date.

The first dividend has been declared by the Wealth of Nations mine. The amount si £IOOO per share.