TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1453, 12 January 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Jan. 7. Tenders for the mail service have been suspended until Queensland, Tasmania, and Western Australia have decided whether all postages from those colonies will be sent by the federal service, unless specially addressed. The weekly returns ot the Bank of England, published to-day, show the total reserve in notes and bullion to he L 17,1000,000, and the proportion of reserve to liabilities as 45 per cent. Jan. 8. The exports for the year show a decrease of twenty million pounds as compared with the returns for last year. In the imports there is also a falling off of sixteen millions. The French Ministry formed by M. Freycinet is considered a weak one. India declines to reduce the cable charges on general and Government cablegrams. Germay has also declined to make any reduction on Press messages. Sir James Anderson, of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company is, however, still sanguine that the reductions will be effected. Jan. 9. New Zealand frozen mutton is realising 5d per lb in the Sraithfield market. Jan. 10. Mr H, W. Lucy has been appointed Editor of the Daily News. Parliament will be opened on the 21st inst. by Her Majesty in person. A protocol has been signed by England and Spain, granting to England all such privileges as are enjoyed by Germany in the Caroline Islands. Paris, Jan, 8. Advices are to hand Rom Anara announcing a further massacre of Chris tians by the rebels. The Mission Station was attacked by the natives, who killed the Catholic missionary in charge of the station, together with five hundred converts. General de Courcy, hearing of the massacre, promptly sent a body of French troops, and inflicted severe punishment on the murderers, Jan. 8. It is announced that M. de Freycinet has been successful in forming a Cabinet, in which he will assume the portfolio of Foreign Affaire. General Boulanger goes to the War Office, and M. Lecroy has been appointed Minister of Commerce. Constantinople, Jan. 9. Greece is now assuming a more friendly attitude towards the Porte, and a large number of the troops recently massed on the frontier have been granted furloughs. The ostensible reason is the occurrence of Christmas holidays, but it is generally supposed that the Greek Government have adopted this indirect method of disbanding her forces. Cairo, Jan. 8. Mouktar Pasha, the Turkish Commissioner to Egypt, advocates raising the strength of the-Egyptian arm; to 16,000 men, in order to enable the Khedive to hold the frontier against the Soudanese Arabs. Capetown, Jan. 9. The New Zeeland Shipping Company’s R.M.S. Tongariro left for New Zealand yesterday afternoon. Washington, Jan. 9. The Senate has passed & measure of a very atringent character for the purpose of repressing the practice of polygamy among the Mormons of Utah territory. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, Jan. 8. Continuous heavy rains are falling in the cokmy, and the bush fires are being extinguished in consequence. Great damage has been done by them in the western districts of Victoria, and many settlers are completely burnt out. Tho men employed in the flour mills at Melbourne have demanded a redaction of working time to eight hours per diem, or a total of 48 hours weekly. The masters are yielding to the requests of tho men, The Premier, the Hon.-James Service, has issued circulars to the Governments of the various colonies, urging the necessity for united action in the direction of securing a reduction of the duties

charged on Australian wines imported into England. Jan. 9. Mr Service has arranged to address his constituents at Castlemaine on Wednesday next, and Mr Berry will meet the leaders of the Liberal party on Thursday. It is expected that some announcement will be made in regard to the impending changes in the Ministry, recently foreshadowed in the Argus. Forty-five wharf-laborers have arrived from Adelaide to replace the strikers. The men have been placed on board Huddart, Parker and Co.’s steamer, in order to prevent intimidation from outsiders. The Trade Council have held a meeting, and a resolution was passed expressing sympathy with the Laborers’ Union ; and the various Trades Unions are warmly supporting the action of the strikers. The returns of the Victorian goldfields for the past year show a total of 810,000 ounces, being a small increase on 1884. Later. The forty-five men who were brought over from Adelaide by the shipowners have joined the Union men, regardless of the contracts under which they were engaged. Six of the laborers who came from Sydney have also made common cause with the stnkiete, Sydney,' Jan. 8. The Te Anau sailed this afternoon for New Zealand. Cardinal Moran is a passenger by her. A cablegram has been received by the Postmaster-General from the N-w Zeeland Government in reply to his communication on the subject of the continuance of (he cable subsidy and the reduction of the tariff. The New Zealand Government states its willingness to agree to similar terras to, those prc : posed.