TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2849, 1 August 1895, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, July 29. The Earl of Yerulam is dead. Mr Neutneyer, Hamburg, will read a paper at the Geographical Congress tomorrow referring to the nature of the ice-cap at the South Pole. He suggests throe meridian routes as best adapted for the purpose of inquiry, either the meridian of New Zealand, of Cape Horn, or that of Kerguelen Island. Reports from St. Petersburg state that Russia will support the claim put forth by France for the British evacuation of Egypt. The Emperor of Germany will arrive in England on Saturday. He will visit the Lake District, and afterwards attend a review at Aldershot.

Lane, the promoter of the New Australia venture, writes to the Chronicle that Cosmo Colony, in Paraguay, after some years’ struggle, is succeeding. A block of 25,000 acres has been divided into 90-acre sections, which are producing enough for the wants of the settlers, none of whom have withdrawn.

Leonard Harper leaves for New Zealand in custody on August Bth. At the hearing of the case counsel for the prosecution stated that accused was anxious to return.

It is reported that prior to leaving office Lord Ripon sanctioned a scheme for federating the Malay states, except Johore, under a Resident-General. July 30.

At the Geographical Congress Herr Neumeyer proposed an international expedition to the Antarctic. Terrestrial magnetism was the most important matter requiring solution there. Sir Joseph Hooker and Dr Murray, formerly of H.M.S. Challenger, warmly supported the proposal. The latter thought that the South Pole possibly contained one of the secrets of oceanic circulation. Sir G. S. Baden-Powell said that he was convinced that the Imperial Parliament would support an Antarctic expeeitiou. A committee was appointed to frame resolutions on the matter.

Madrid, July 29. News has been received that the natives of Cabagan, a town in the north extremity of the Island of Luzon, one of the Philippines, enticed a party of Spaniards into an ambush and killed several. The Spanish troops who were sent to punish the natives killed 110 of them and burned Cabagan.

Brussels, July 29. Ono hundred thousand delegates, representing the whole of Belgium, assembled in the capital to consider the education question. The meeting was conducted in an orderly and impressive manner. Resolutions were passed protesting against yielding control of education to priests, and demanding that it be made national and compulsory. Rome, July 27. The Italian press is generally convinced that war is imminent in Abyssinia. The Corrieve newspaper, published here, says that Russia and France are endeavoring to entangle Italy and Great Britain in the African difficulty, with a view to free their own hands in action in the East.

Baron Blanc, the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, asserts that Meuolek, ruler of Abyssinia, after owing his throne to Italian influence, betrayed Italy for the purpose of gaining favor with Russia. Sofia, July 29.

News is received here that the Macedonians defeated the Turks and captured and burned Menlik. One thousand Macedonians marched in procession through the chief streets of the city yesterday singing war songs, and praising the Russian people. They also cheered the leading Bulgarian officers and politicians. A number of Bulgarian officials attended the cathedral, where a service to commemorate the memory of the two Macedonian officers who were killed in the recent fighting was being held. This is said to be intended as an indication of hostility to Turkey and the foreign Consuls. It is reported that Russian agents instigated the rising.

The Macedonians burned the Turkish quarter in Menlik, a town of six thousand inhabitants. Tokio, July 28. A train containing four hundred soldiers, who were returning from the war, was derailed between Kobe and Hiroshima. One hundred and forty of those on board were killed. The railway ran parallel to the sea, and the waves from a raging storm had swept the railway metal into the sea. The Japanese troops have destroyed the forts at Port Arthur. Cholera is prevalent in Japan, and 5000 deaths have boon reported since the outbreak. New York, July 27. Official denial is given to a report published in the Now York papers that the Indians in Idaho had besieged and massacred 72 white families at Jackson’s Hole. The report stated that the Federal Cavalry had started to the rescue too late, and were still a hundred miles distant when the massacre began. It was added that the Indian rising In Idaho and Wyoming was general.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE

Sydney, July 30. It was recently stated that the Preach Government had decided to discontinue sending convicts to Now Caledonia. A mail, however, brings nows to the olt’oot that preparations were being made in Franco to send another consignment of prisoners by the transport Caledonie, which, it is understood, left Franco on June 11th. It is mentioned that the despatch of this lot is unavoidable, as they are required to complete a now penal station. Th® hoy Windon, who was one of the principal witnesses against Gill, has been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the jewellery robbery from Stewart, Dawson & Co.’s premises. Windon daily placed the tray containing the diamond rings in the safe, and it is stated that the missing rings wore taken fully a mouth before the loss was discovered. It is anticipated that the boy’s arrest will lead to the elucidation of the mystery. In connection with the trouble between the French authorities and natives of the Society Islands, Special Commissioner M. Chosse is now on his way to Tahiti to investigate the matter, Ha is empowered

by the French Government to take part in reorganising the administration of the Society and Windward Isles, The warship Aube is placed at the service of the Commissioner. The chief trouble is with the native Queen at Raitea and Huahine. Recently the warship Pourvoyeur seized three of the principal leaders of the insurrection and deported them to the Marquesas. In the meantime the Queen has been to Raratonga to see Mr Moss, the British Ambassador Ihere, for the purpose of inducing him to move the British Government on behalf of her subjects. Mr Moss declined to do any, thing in the matter. News is received of a sensational tragedy at Parita, New Caledonia. A convict named Piercourt, employed on Madame Fricotte’s station, having been discharged fur some offence, procured dynamite cartridges and placed them in the lady’s bod when she was asleep. Her body was blown to fragments, and her daughter, seven years old, was seriously injured. Piercourt afterwards committed suicide by blowing his own head to pieces with another cartridge. The captain of the brigantine Anthons, from Kaiapoi, pleaded guilty to overloading the vessel, and was fined £5. The Premier proposes to take up the work where he left off before the dissolution. He intends to immediately make appointments to the Legislative Council. The session, which is expected to be short, will be chiefly devoted to financial questions. Information has been received that the Tahiti Government have voted a sum of £5600 as a subsidy to a s f eam service between San Francisco, Tahiti, Noumea, and Sydney, by the Messageries line of steamers. The matter, however, requires to be ratified by the Home authorities. Melbourne, July 30.

Ferguson, the Eldorado hero, has been awarded a certificate of bravery by the Department of Mines. A prospector named Brown found a 2380 z nugget of gold at Youdoit, near Daylesford. At the annual meeting of the Federation League it was decided to ask the Premier to introduce the Federation Bill which was adopted at the Hobart Conference, without waiting any longer for New South Wales. In connection with the Customs drawback frauds, Rosenfeldt was sentenced to nine mouths’ imprisonment, and fined £500; Davis and Benjamin to six months and a fine of £3OO each ; Stauaway to six mouths and a fine of £SO. The severity of the sentences caused a mild sensation, as the chief prisoners are well known, and maintained a fairly good position in society. Adelaide, July 29.

Mias Ramsay, a smallpox patient, is recovering, and there is no further sign of the disease.

July 30. On Friday night the Premier, speaking at Port Fairy in condemnation of the agitation against the State Advances Bill, referred sarcastically to Mr H. G. Sparks, manager of the South Australian Company, and a prominent opponent of the Bill. Yesterday Mr Sparks met the Premier in company with the Sheriff in Victoria Square. He accosted the Premier, and without warning struck him several blows with a whip-stick. The Premier wrested the stick from his assailant, got in several blows himself, and a scuffle followed. The Sheriff and several bystanders dragged Sir C. C. Kingston away by force and Mr Sparks drove off in a cab. The Premier’s ear was cut, but Sparks evidently had the worst of the encounter. The Premier says that he means to take no action as he is satisfied with what he gave Sparks. Brisbane, July 30.

The Treasurer in the Financial Statement, referring to the Pacific cable, said that the political, commercial, and social aspects of the proposal should commend themselves to every patriotic Queenslander. The saving of the public and the colonies would be £200,000 a year, in which Queensland would largely share. They were now endeavoring in every way to extend the export trade, and moderate cable rates would be of immense assistance.

The Government bacteriologist has discovered that a number of fowls in Bris. bane are dying from chicken cholera The discovery is considered important, as it removes one of the chief objections of the late intercolonial rabbit commission to the dissemination of chicken cholera microbes for the purpose of rabbit extermination. The Government are having a report made on the discovery, with a view to the possible employment of the disease to prevent the spread of rabbits in the colony.

Perth, July 20. The reported new reef at Mount Rugged, near Israelite Bay, has proved a duller. One hundred men who rushed the locality are returning after enduring great hardships. Thistloton, the Adelaide cyclist, tracked the alleged discoverers for six days on his bicycle, scouring a hundred miles. He had to cut his way and drag the machine through dense scrub, and for three days was without food. Water has been struck in the Great Boulder Mine at the 100 ft level. The Government intend to propose an unimproved laud tax of three farthings in the £.