TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1343, 21 May 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, May 16. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association : Arrived Pareora, from Bluff (sailed Jan. 28th) ; Piako, from Wellington (sailed Feb. 4th); Margaret Galbraith, from Port Chalmers (sailed Feb.' 12th). May 17. The revised Bible, which has just been issued, has been favorably received. May 18. The Irish Bishops are opposing the rumored appointment of Bishop Moran, of Sydaey, to the Archbishopric of Dublin.

The Irish Bishops are opposing the rumored appointment of Bishop Moran, of Sydaey, to the Archbishopric of Dublin.

Frosts are injuring the hop crops. Louis Kiel, leader of the recent rising in Saskatchewan, will be tried for treason.

j The trial of the two men, Cunningham and Burton, on a charge of being I concerned in the recent dynamite explo- ' sions at the Houses of Parliament and the Tower of London, was concluded to-day, when the prisoners were each sentenced to penal servitude for life. Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, UnderSecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, announced in the House of Commons to-day that the Spanish Government refused to extend to England the treatment of the most favored nation in pursuauce of the Convention, and that negotiations for a commercial treaty had been broken off in consequence. In the House of Commons to-day, Evelyn Ashley, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the colonies, stated iu reply to a question that the Western Pacific Commission had sent in reports to the respective Governments, and there was every prospect of an entente cordiale on the question. It has transpired that a political attempt was made to damage the Queensland loan, It ended in failure, however. The inhabitants of the territory adjacent to Zansibar are resisting the German protectorate which was recently established over them.

May 19. Lord Carringtori leaves for Sydney by the P. and 0. steamer Carthage. The Hon. Evelyn Ashley is to move the omission of the abrogating proviso in the Federation Bill.

It is expected that the Hon, Alexander Stuart, Premier of New South Wales; the Hon. B. Dalley, Attorney-General of New South Wales, and the Hon. Edward Barton, Speaker of the Legislative Council of the same colony, will be created K.C.M.G.'s, and that Colonel Jas. Richardson, commanding the New South Wales contingent, will be made a Commander of the Bath.

Paris, M»y 19. Victor Hugo, the well-kuown poet, is reported to be in a dying condition.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, May ]B. A telegram is to hand from Louth, a town on the Dariing River, announcing that the police have arrested a man named Ross at that place, suspected of being concerned in the robbery of the Horsham (Victoria) branch of the London Chartered Bank of Australia last year, when raearly £6OOO in notes and gold were abstracted from the Bank safe between noort on Saturday, March Ist, and Monday morning, March 3rd. Ross had a credit balance at the Bank of £390 when arrested. Albany, May 19. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's R.M.iS.S. Ballarat arrived here this morning with the London mailp to April 17th. ,