TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2853, 10 August 1895, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Aug. 7. News has been received of the death of John Dunn, the Zulu chief, who led the rebel Kingites in the Zulu rebellion. Adelaide Bassett, n parachutist, met with a terrible death at a fete in Petersburg}! to-day. She was performing in the presence of 1000 people, and in her ascent the parachute was injured by contact with a telegraph wire. Miss Bassett jumped from a height of 60 feet and fell on her head, death being almost instantaneous. A. bomb burst at a fireworks display at Brighton, where the Foresters were holding a fete. Seventeen persons were injured. Owing to a gale, the Britannia had a walk over for the Queen’s Cup at Cowes The Duke of Connaught has intimated that he does not desire to succeed the Duke of Cambridge as Commander-in-Chief. Prince Ferdinand’s party is deeply depressed at the refusal of the Czar to recognise the prince. A crisis in Bulgaria is imminent. The Czar personally directed the publication of his refusal. The Bulgarian Government intend to prosecute M. Laukoff for suggesting that Prince Ferdinand should give way to Prince George of Greece. Prince Ferdinand and his secretary have left Ca lsbad, and the Prince is staying in Paris incognito. The order to extradition Leonard Harper has been granted. He professed himself to be anxious to return to New Zealand and answer every charge. Mr Justin McCarthy, in a stronglyworded manifesto, denounces Mr Healy, and attributes the Conservative victory in Ireland to faction troubles and Healy’s disloyalty. The Appeal Court refused a motion for judicial separation of Earl and Countess Russell; also the petition of the Countess for the restitution of conjugal rights. During the trial of the torpedo-des-troyer Charger, with the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York on board, the crown of the firebox cracked. The tires were instantly drawn to prevent the boiler bursting. A speed of 27 knots was reached. Paris, Aug. 7. Several cases of cholera have appeared in France. Senator Magnier, editor of Le Evnomeut, was summoned before the Chamber on an indictment charging him with accepting 100,000 francs in connection with the South of France railway scandal. Athens, Aug. 7. Macedonian rebels killed 150 Turkish soldiers at Tarrasch. Madrid, Aug. 6. A great battle is reported to have bsen fought at Baraco, in Cuba. General Saudova was wounded. The towns of Baracoa and Piguaui were burned down. Shanghai, Aug. 6. It is reported that a rebellion has broken out in the province of Tukein, and that the position of Foochow is critical. The natives are openly hostile. A gunboat hea been despatched to that city. Aug. 7. The Chief Chinese Minister has been dismissed owing to his connection with the Rusao-Chinese loan and FrancoOhineso Convention. Washington, Aug. 6. The United States Government regards the French proposal to establish a Court of Arbitration as unworkable, and prevented by the Munroe doctrine. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Aug. 8. The hull and the contents of the burnt ship Hilaria were sold for £270. It is stated that there are still a large number of cases of kerosene in the sunken vessel. At a meeting of the Cabinet this afternoon the following ten appointments were made to the Legislative Council: — Messrs Backhouse, Blunksby, Kettel, Lees, D. O’Connor, Pulsford, Hughes, Cullen, Smith, and Fowler. The Farmers’ Conference with two dissentients, carried resolutions disapproving of the removal of the grain duties and the imposition of land tax. Meldqurne, Aug. 9. Groat consternation was felt among the passengers by the express train from Adelaide to Melbourne on Friday owing to the jolting of the train. Several passengers were thrown out of their seats, and sustained cuts and bruises. The luggage in the guard’s van was thrown out of the racks. The engine-driver, who was mad with drink, w'as the cause. At Nhill he began to tamper with the engine, sending it full speed ahead. The fireman, seeing that the driver was hurling the train on to destruction, endeavoured to overpower him, and a desperate struggle ensued on the engine. The fireman managed to stun the man, and pulled the train up. The guard took the fireman’s place, and the latter acted as driver for the rest of tho journey. Aug. 8. A sensation has been caused in Ballarat by the arrest of a girl named Bonos, aged 18, daughter of a well known laud and estate agent, on a charge of forging a cheque for £371 on her father and uttering it. She cashed tho cheque at the Union Bank, but the manager, suspecting that the signature was not genuine, sent for Mr Bones, with the result that he proved tho cheque a forgery. The girl, in the course of conversation, incriminated a young man named Warner, a clerk, to whom she is alliancod, and declared that ho induced her to forgo her father’s name to the cheque, which ho filled in for the amount named. Warner has been arrested. Adelaide- A;;fc. 8. Tho renarto of vue Stock i!isn*"‘ ors show' that loot-rot. and lice are prnv'Gfmk among sheep in tho Southeast and Northern districts. Some thousands of sheep also died from worms and inflammatory fever. There have been further shocks of earthquake iu tho country.