TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 96, 21 April 1883, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 17. H.M.S. Dragon, 6 guns, has been ordered to Madagascar for the protection of British interests. News is to hand that a French war»hip has captured Port Negra, in Loango, on the West African Coast, after severe fighting with the natives. Obituary—Sir Philip Rose, Baronet, the well-known solicitor, aged 67. April 18.

Intelligence of a disquieting nature has been leceived from the West African Coast, and it is expected that a conflict will ensue between Mr Stanley's exploring expedition and the French party under De Brazza in the Congo country. Daniel Curley, the second of the prisoners charged with the Phoenix Park murders, has been found guilty and sentenced to death.

A box containing explosives has been found outside Salisbury Cathedra!, an! the intended outrage on that edifice has thus been been areited. The discovery caused some alarm in the city. Consols have declined one-eighth and are now quoted at 10 v -|. Few Zealand securities rmiain at the following quotations :— 5 per cent 10-40 loan, 10S£; 6 per cent 1889 loan, 106 ; per cent 18 7 9-1904 loan, 102£ ; 4 per cent inscribed stock, 10’2-|. The Right Rev C. W. Hanford. Bishop of Tasmania, has been presented by his late congregation at Gibraltar with a silver vase and a cheque for £I2OO.

The caigo of frozen meat by the ship Dunedin is selling at 6d per lb. The shipment by the Cuzco is inferior to previous cargoes and has realised 2d per lb. The market is glutted. The City and Suburban Stakes was run for at the Epsom Spring Meeting yesterday, and was won by Roysterer, Lowland Chief 2, Sweetbread 3. April 19.

Another of the Invincible* lias been arrested for complicity in the Park ami other murders. The s'ory told by a telegraph clerk of his having been kidnapped by Fenian* is distrusted, and the clerk has been

suspended. The Arabs are reported to be fighting amongst themselves in the vicinity of Aden. Troops have teen despatched to restore order. H.M. Dragon has been detained at Aden.

The Prince of Bulgaria is on a visit to the Sultan, and is treated as an Imperial guest.

The Government has announced in the House of Commons its intention to appoint a Permanent Committee of Agriculture, under the presidency of the Right Hon Mr Dodson. Government House, Ottawa, has been threatened by the Fenians. Madras, April 18. Intelligence of a jemarkable e.atastrophe is to hand from Secunderabad, a town in Hyderabad. A large number of natives were worshipping on rafts in an extensive tank in the city, when onof the structures suddenly upset. All the natives who were on it were precipitated into the water, and sixty-two of them were drowned before assistance could reach them.

Lisbon, April 17. Three Portuguese men of-war have been ordered to St Paul De Loando, the capital of the Portuguese colony of Angola, on the West Alrican Coast. New York, April 18.

At a meeting of Irish delegates held at Philadelphia, it was decided to adhere to the intention of holding a convention in that city on the 25th inst. Mr Parnell, who was present, advised that the convention should be postponed until autumn. The leading delegates at the meeting expressed themselves as opposed to the use of dynamite for obtaining redress of Irish grievances. AUSTRALIAN CABLE, Launceston, April 18. No confirmation has been obtained of the reports current yesterday of further outrages in Epping Forest, Melbourne, April 18. Farther particulars regarding the

*iib!»ery at tlie Colonial Bank at Brunswick show that a sura of €715 wa> htolen, not ±6OO as at first supposed. The manager of (he Bank has been suspended pending an enquiry into the affair,

The Tarawera, which left yesterday for the Bluff, took on hoard at the Heads the English mails brought by the P. and 0. steamer Rosetta.

The Union Insurance Company of Mew Zealand have taken over the current risks of the Victorian agencies of the Standard Fire Insurance Company of London and the Fire Association of London.

Sydnky, April 18. In tire Legislative Assembly this evening, the Postmaster General tab! d a resolution regarding the S*n Francisco mail service. The motion provides for an extension of the present service for a period of two yeais, the subsidy being fixed at £50,00 , of which £18,750 is to be contributed by New South Wales, on the understanding that the contract time shall be shortened by 24 hours for the first year and 48 hours for the second year ; the Company to be relieved ot the obligation of keeping a fourth steamer in the service.