TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1246, 30 September 1884, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Sept. 23

The Australian cricketing team dedined an invitation to play a match at Bombay on their way home.

Sir Henry Forbes is maturing plans for exploring the South-Eastern portion of New Guinea. Sir Gavin Duffy, in writing to the Pall Mall Gazette, urges that a dissolution is the simplest remedy for the pr°‘sent political dead lock in England. The two gunboats constructed for the Queensland Government have made a trial trip, at which they averaged lo£ knots per hour. The guns were also tested, with excellent results. The death of Mrs Challis is announced, !?he leaves a large legacy to the Sydney University. The meat by the Coptic has arrived in splendid condition. The shipment of Queensland beef by tho Duke of Westminster is damaged, and the greater portion of it is unsound. The John Elder’s cargo is averaging s£d. Sept. 24. The Australian cricketers, with the exception of Spofforth, embarked to-day on board the steamship Mirzapore, for Melbourne. Spofforth leaves by the Ganges next month. Sept, 25. Mr Murray Smith, Agent-General for Victoria, is endeavoring to arrange with the various Agents-General to act unitedly in requesting Lord Derby and Mr Gladstone to prevent Foreign Powers from further acquiring any territory in the Pacific, or south of the Equator, as such is both premature and annoying to the colonies.

The recent announcements of further large colonial loans being placed in the market have had a disturbing influence on the money market. Sept. 26. The cholera epidemic continues to maintainits deadly character in Southern Europe. In Genoa seventy cases occurred yesterday, and at Naples fifty deaths from the disease occur daily. No extensive outbreak lias yet occurred in Spain, and the mortality from ' cholera is stated to be moderate. A slight revival of the epidemic has taken place at Toulon during the past few days. Arrived Steamship Coptic, from Lyttelton (left August Bth).

The detachments of Life Guards and Household Cavalry to be formed into a Camel Corps, in connection with the British expedition to the Soudan, embarked to-day at Portsmouth for Alexandria, on board the troopships Beacon and Australia, specially chartered as transports. The Australian and New Zealand mails, which left Auckland- on August 19th, were delivered in London to-day. M. de Veille, the eminent French jurist, has been despatched to Cayenne, on behalf of the French Government, to enquire and report upon the suitability oL that place for the deportation of recidivistes.

The Times, in an article, urges the reduction of hereditary peerages in favor of the creation of more life peers. Information to hand from Capetown states that Usibepu declines to recognise the present location of the Zulu reserve. The French vintage is very abundant this year. Sept. 27, Rumors have been received at Scotland Yard, leading to the belief that the Irish dynamite party hare formed further plots for the destruction of public buildings, and that the emissaries who are now on the Continent will cross the Channel in order to carry out the conspiracy. Increased precautions are being taken at Dover, and great vigilance is being exercised both by the Customs officers and the police to prevent the importation of dangerous explosives. The Hon, Mr Gladstone has returned from Scotland to his seat at Eawarden Castle. Paris, Sept. 27. The French Chambers are summoned to meet on October 1 Till for the despatch of business. Capetown, Sept. 23. Considerable agitation is being manifested throughout Cape Colony, and petitions to the Queen have been

numerously signed against the inaction of the Imperial Government in connection with the aggressive action of the Boers in Becbuanaland.

Calcutta, Sept. 25

News to hand frem Rangoon announces that a forrnidabe rising of convicts recently occurred at Manda ! ay, the capital of Independent Burmah. In the attempt made by the authorities, which ultimately proved successful, to quell the mutiny, several hundred prisoners were killed by the Burmese troops. Cairo, Sep.t 25. The protest against the violation of the law of liquidation by the Egyptian Government was to-day presented by the members of the International Commission to Nubar Pasha. All the representatives of the Signatory Powers except Italy took part in the protest. Sept. 27. Arrangements for despatching the British expedition to the Soudan are rapidly approaching completion, and General Lord Wolseley, who has been personally superintending the preparations, has started for the Nubian frontier. Thirty boats which have been shipped for the transport of troops up the Nile have arrived at Assionat. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Sept. 26. Arrived, last evening—S.s. Australia, from Auckland, The application of William and Charles Orton to have the lunatic William Cresswell, now in Parramatta Asylum, released to them on the ground (hat he is their brother, Arthur Orton, has been refused by the Sydney Equity Court.

Very wet weather is now being experienced here.

The railway returns for the colony show a profit at the rate of per cent, upon the capital invested.