TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2875, 1 October 1895, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

AND FOREIGN. London, Sept. 26. A train at St. Pancras' station was robbed of 34,9000 z. of silver, valued at £4BOO. The drivers were absent for twenty minutes. The empty boxes wore recovered a mile away. Obituary—Viscount Parker. Lord Tyrone has sailed for Melbourne, and Lady Mayhermore has also departed for Australia. The underwriters pay the total loss on the missing barque Stoneleigh, from Melbourne. Sept. 27. A man named Henry Bailey has been arrested for the robbery of silver at the St. Pancras station. Several ingots were found in his possession. Sept. 29. One-sixth of the stolen silver has been roiovered,4nothes*ingot being found in Camden street. The Valkyrie remains in America for the winter. Mr Jersey, Lord Duuraven's agent, says that she is ready to meet the Defender in 1896, but experts consider that Mr Kost has the prior right to a raco. Sir J. B. Thursday sails by the Warrimoo on November 16th. A lunatic who had just been released from Lichfield asylum, murdered three men in succession, and then committed scicide. An Irish harvester, who was working at Moxborough, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, became affected with the heat, and stabbed six fellow-lodgers while they were asleep. Two of those injured are said to be dying, and the others are in a bad way. Paris, Sept. 26. A flying column under the command of General Voyron, 4000 strong, defeated the whole Hova army without loss at Ambohunena Pass. Thirty guns were captured. The advance guard is now only 70 kilometres from the capital. Sept. 27. Bouteille, who threw the bomb into Rothschild's bank, has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Sept. 29. Obituary—M. Pasteur, from paralysis. Rome, Sept. 26. The Vatican has instructed the Papal Nuncios that they are required to remain passive during the celebrations at Rome, in order that no pretexts may be furnished for further violence on the part of the Government. Constantinople, Sept. 27. The Moslems of AntiocL>, while searching for arms, raided an Armenian church. The Armenians fought bravely, and lost ten men in the engagement. Turkey has consented to pay tho indemnity demanded by Russia and Great Britain for assault on the consuls at Jeddah in July. Bucharest, Sept. 27. The King of Roumania has opened the bridge over the Danube at Tchernovoda, which cost 34,000,000 francs. Its length is 3628 metres (over two miles), and the highest level above water is 30 metres. The bridge is considered one of the engineering triumphs of the century. Ottawa, Sept. 26. The Earl of Aberdeen and Sir J. Pauncefote, British Minister at Washington, will confer at Ottawa upon the terms of arbitration with the United States upon the claims of the Canadian sealers. New York, Sept. 26. The Democratic Convention at New York has resulted in a victory for Tammany in the selection of the minor State officials. Shanghai, Sept. 29. H.M.S. Aeolus has been ordered to Woo Chung. Four more British warships have beeu sent to Yang-Tse-Kiang. The German squadron have been ordered to Swatow, a province of Qiang Tung. An anti foreign lunatic attempted to murder Ito, the Japanese Admiral and Premier.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE

Sydney, Sept. 27. The Council negatived the second reading of the Council Reform Bill by 39 to 13, and an amendment that it be read six months hence was carried on the voices. In the Assembly a seen© took place in the debate upon the estimates. Messrs Cameron,Miller, and McElhone defied the chair, and were suspended for the sitting and removed. Determined attempts were made to reduce a number of high salaries of officials, but they were mostly ineffective. While the hulk Gem, with a cargo of coal for the Mariposa, was being towed from Newcastle, she encountered a heavy gale and foundered off Broken Bay. Larsen, the hulk-keepor, with his wife and four young children, and Holmes, a deck hand, were aboard. A heavy sea, which came on board before the vessel sank, washed Larsen and Holmes overboard before the eyes of Mrs Larsen. Though the night wr.a very dark Mrs Larsen succeeded in signalling the tug that the Gem was about to sink, and the remainder of those on board were rescued before the vessel foundered. The Premier has wired to the Premiers of the other colonies that he iutenas to introduce the Federal Enabling Bill during the present session. Ho proposes under the measure to treat the colouy as one electorate and ask the others to elect representatives to the Federal Convention which should draft a federal ;. onat ; tu i-,{ ol '; and than rof not less than 00 days, nor triors than 90 days, duri:;,; which tlie public would be given an opportunity to criticise th,e constitution, and. MO bo pointed ,au»- ' -"' s cou d .....ssembled to ratify the ; this measure at the second | convention to be the Federal Convention ' Act. The Premier of Victoria has replied that ho would be glad to follow the Premier of Now South Wales, and wishes tho scheme every success. The Premier of South Australia is also favorable to tho proposal, and adds, " Of course, each colony will have a power of modification exeeptiug as to the chief objects of the Bill." Tho inquest on tho unfortunate girl NicheiH wnro resuruod to-day, and a verdie f murder returned against Sheridan, and that Thomas and Mrs Campbell wore accessories before the

fact. Seawell has been released. The medical evidence showed that the wound on the body was caused shortly before death, but the witnesses were unable to say whether death resulted from shock or blood-poisoning, though the woman could have lived more than a few hours after the incision had been made. It appeared to the medical officers as if the injuries had been made with reckless disregard to life, and there were no signs of the use of anaesthetics. If none were used, they say that the operation must have been agonising. Mr Nevill Barnetfc, organist, who was well knswn in New Zealand, is dead. Sept. 28. The Anglican Synod have passed a resolution expressing a grateful sense of the sense of the goodness of God in sending rain, and accepting it as a direct answer to their prayer. Canon Morton said it had been unmistakeably shown that prayer prevailed with God. The crew of the wrecked barque Zeno arrived by the s.s, Birkhead. At the annual meeting of the New Hebrides Company the report stated that the company was successfully competing for the trade of the group, notwithstanding that the French companies were subsidised. The whole trade of the islands was being rapidly drawn to Australia. Adelaide, Sept. 27. Ihe Salaries Bill passed the third reading. An amendment put to reduce members' salaries by £SO was negatived. The Government have rejected a private offer to construct a transcontinental land-grant railway from the western terminus of the line on the coast of Western Australia, the object being to bring the eastern colonies in more rapid communication with Europeans. The offer was rejected on the ground that the Government consider the scheme to be impracticable. Melbourne, Sept. 27. Two prospectors have found a 240 z nugget of gold near Yarra Glen, about 30 miles north-east of Melbourne. Sept. 28. Owing to the slowness of his recovery, it was intended to submit Louis Abrahams to the electric treatment, but, like Im brother Emanuel, he immediately found his voice and appetite, and also the use of his limbs. Sept. 28. The Government Geologist iu reporting on an extended visit to the Northern Territory, says that he is favorably impressed with respect to the coal, gold, and tin deposits, and tint further prospecting in the vicinity of the preseut fields and untested areas will lead to extensive discoveries. He suggests that there should be deep sinking, and that the Government should offer a substantial reward for the discovery of payable finds. Brisbane, Sept. 27. The Assembly accepted the Council's amendments iu the Gambling Bill, making church, raffles and other similar undertakings illegal. Sept 28. The Premier is satisfied with Mr Reid's proposals for a Federal Bill, but his Government are not able to deal with it this session. The boiling down works at Barcaldiue to which extensive additions had only recently been completed have been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £5000) and over 60 men are thrown out of work. Albany, Sept. 27. Zimmerman, the well-known American cyclist, has arrived here,