Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXII, Issue 1672, 22 July 1892, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

[By Electric Telegraph,]

INTERPROVINOIAL

[from our own correspondent]

Christchurch, July 21. The cable messages to-day include a summary of the voting at the general election. The result is that the Conservatives and Unionists are in a minority of 42. The Conservatives and Unionists returned 270 members in England and Wales, 21 in Scotland, and 23 in Ireland. The Gladstonian Liberals, Nationalists and Parnellites returned 225 members in England and Wales, 51 in Scotland, and 80 in Ireland. Hawera, July 21. A bushman named Kennedy M~c Donald was ran over by a train near Normanby last night. His body was** horribly mutilated. Dunedin, July 21.

The Education Board declines ta interfere in the matter of Mrs Cotton's* complaint of classics being taught in public schools. The district truant officer reported that so long as the duty of summoning offenders rested with the committees his efforts to check the evil would meet with meagre success. The opinion expressed by the Board was that the compulsory clauses are unworkable. London, July 20.

The Countess of Donoughmore was fined £20 for removing her daughter in a cab while suffering from sea fever, and failing to notify her daughter's malady to the owner of a boarding house.

Two men, belonging to the schooner Undine, were arrested at Ascension Island, and sent to Manilla on a charge of murdering most of the crew and seizing the vessel during a voyage to the Pacific.

The death is announced of McGregor, ** the Rob Roy Canoeist.

The Daily Telegraph says the new Ministry will include Mr John Morley as Chief Secretary for Ireland, and possibly Lord Carrington as Viceroy of India, Earl Kimberley as Secretary for India, Sir W. "V. Harcourt as Home Secretary, Sir C. Russell as AttorneyGeneral, and Mr Labouchere as Postmaster General.

Zimmerman, the American cyclist, has reduced the five-mile record by 15sec. The cholera is advancing in Austria and France, but is at present confined in the lower country, and to the suburbs of Paris. St. Petersburg, July 20. The cholera in Russia is increasing to a very large extent. Further rioting has taken place at Saratov. The fury of the mob was directed against the doctors, several of whom were murdered. Eighty thousand people have fled from Baku. The Consuls in Morocco are protesting against the numerous outrages which are being committed by the Sultan's troops. Paris, July 20. Le Temps expresses its delight at the check England has received in Morocco. Berlin, July 20. The Berliner Tageblatt referring to the difficulty with the Ameer of Afghanistan and the Sultan of Morocco insists that Russia and France should take concerted action to impede the growth of British influence in those countries.