Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXII, Issue 1667, 5 July 1892, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

[Bγ Electric Telegraph.]

INTERPROVINGIAL

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

Gisborne, July 4.

The heaviest flood experienced here for sixteen years occurred to-day owing to heavy rains on Saturday night and yesterday The homesteads of many settlers are surroudded by water whilst several settlers had to leave their dwellings. The Waipara river overflowed its banks. Thousands of acres are under water, considerable loss of stock has taken place, and culverts have been carried away. No loss of life is reported, It is still mining, and it is feared that the worst is not over. Wellington, July 4. A petition against the Compensation to Publicans' Bill is being taken round for signatures. The opponents say the Bill has been sprung upon the public suddenly without allowing time for the country to express itself respecting it, and they claim that the Victorian experiment pleases neither the public nor the I publican, and that its repeal is being agitated for. Lytteltw, July 4. The Akaroa football team who established in no uncertain manner there superiority over the Lyttelton club on Saturday are to be congratulated upon their good all round play. They completely over-malched Lyttelton both in forward and back play, and with a little coaching, which would be the means of improving the combination of the team, they would give some of our senior teams in Christchuich a really good game. Unfortunately the state of the ground on Saturday was such that the finer points of the game could but rarely be brought to life, but on more than one occasion some fine play was conspicuous, and there is no doubt that the best team won. London, July 2. Bitter opposition continues to be shown to Mr H. M Stanley's candidature. Party papers reprint passages from " Darkest Africa," descriptive of encounters with the natives, and the streets of Lambeth are placarded with pictures of Stanley bullying mobs of cowering Negroes. Mrs Stsmley has taken to the platform on behalf of her husband, and delivered thrilling speeches. The Inuian linpr's City of Chicago went ashore on. the head of Kinsale during a fog. Four hundred passengers were safely landed in boats. Drs. Dale, Dallinger, and William Arthur appeal to the Dissenters to support the Unionists. Mr Balfour speaking at Manchester, and Mr Goscheu speaking at Edinburgh severely answered Mr Gladstone's speech at Kdinburgh, the former declared that if tlie control over Ireland, preserved by the imperial Parliament, were only to be likn that executed over the colonies, it would be woithless, and merely a control on paper. He instanced the Queensland Kanaka question, where the Government had found interference to be absolutely out of the question. Mr Goschen a'so ridicu'ed the co'onial apology, and asserted that the veto of the Crown could never be exercised over Ire'and without raising a cry for separation. Contro , over the colonies themselves was of a very shadowy kind. The Parnellites of Limorick stoned Mr W. O'Brien. Tho police rescued him, and escorted him to his hotel. July 3. The Times says that Mr Gladstone lives in an atmosphere of glamour and illusion, and that Lord Randolph Churchill's return unopposed is a good omen for the Unionists. The election betting in Liverpool is 6 to 4 on Mr Gladstone. Speaking at Glasgow Mr Gladstone said he did not fear the . antagonism of the clerical party. The more liberty Ireland was given the less risk there would bo of its being abused. His Bill gave promise of happy paternal relations between England and Ireland and a reign of peace. Mr Chamberlain urges that Mr Gladstone has failed three times to make clear what his proposals really are. The Spectator considers the demand of the Irish for self-Government we'l drawn. Sir W. V. Harcourfc a«serts that Unionists are decaying* In a riot at Waterford one person was killed. Messrs Redmond, Sheehy and a Parnellite band stormed the committee room. The police charged the mob, and Mr Sheehy was wounded in three places. Many persons were severely wounded and had to be taken to the hospital. The magistrates at Kilkenny were assaulted, and a priest was arrested for aiding the rioters. Me>srs Healy and O'Brien were burnt in effigy. Mr Gladstone stated that Ireland was sinking under the accumulated load of oppression, and he would not put his trust in the House of Peers but in God. The Scottish Society has decided not to support Mr Gladstone. The elections are causing intense interest, and business in stocks is virtually suspended, The Trades Councils are quftrrelliug over tho labour candidates, and Ihere is also some discontent in the

ranks of the dockers over the election. Mr T. Burt was returned unopposed. Hempton was beaten in his first heat for the 100 yds at the Championship Meeting. Batger ran third in the final for the Hurdles. Cuff was fourth in the Long , Jump. The Queen received Mr Dibbs with cordiality, and made a number of enquiries about the colonies. Ottawa, July 3. Canada is discussing the propriety of establishing an Orange Colony within its border as a refuge for U'ster men. Madrid, July 3. The Civil Guard of Madrid fired on a mob of rioters, chiefly marked women, many of whom were wounded. Hong Kong, July 3. A French detachment dislodged with heavy loss a strongly entrenched body of Tonquinese pirates near Kilnat. Fifteen of the French were killed. Washington, July 3. The American Prohibitionists have nominated General Bidwill for the Presidency. It is reported that the American Cabinet has signed a petition for the release of Mrs Maybrick.