TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1515, 5 June 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, June 1

A difficulty has arisen between Turkey and Greece, m consequence of the latter country persisting in retaining possession and fortifying the heights of Mount Zygos, which position dominates the town of Netzovo, in Albania.

George Ooppin i» arranging an old colonists’ dinner.

Sir Saul Samuel, banquetted Sir P, 0. Owen, Lord Augustus Loftus, and Sir Hercules Robinson.

June 2. Canon Liddon has been elected Bishop of Edinburgh. Tlio American action in taking Samoa under ih' ir protection is regarded with incredulity in Berlin.

The Ulstermen ore still “ preparing,” but their activity is not seriously reregarded. The late henry rains rendered the wicket on the old Traffurd Ground at Manchester so heavy that further play in the match between the Australians and the North of England team had been abandoned, tho draw being declared in favor of the Horae team, who wanted forty to win, and had nine wickets to fall.

The Greek troops have evacuated the position at Zygos. The Turkish commander admits that he had 840 nrn killed and wounded during tho late fight, but states thathia soldiers buried 12,000 Greeks.

The meat by the Liguria is selling at 5d per lb. Lord Wolverton, the PostmasterGeneral, is arranging for a lighter parcel post via Brindisi. Tho P. and O. Company have given a splendid banquet to 400 colonists, the ■aloons of three of their steamers being used as banquet halls.

June 3

Herr Most, the Socialist, has been sentenced to one year’s imprisonment for his recent inflammatory articles. The Porte protests against the dilatoriness of disarming displayed by Greece.

M. de Freycinet, the French Premier, agrees to the immediate expulsion of the Comte de Paris, the Due de Orleans, and Prince Napoleon Victor from Franc®.

The crisis caused in Austria by the aggressive action of Hungary is subsiding.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE

Melbourne, June 2.

Mr Gillies, Premier, and Mr Wrixon, Attorney-General, have been appointed to represent the colony in the Federal Council, in place of Mersrs Service and Berry, who are both in England. Tho Melbourne City Council refused an application for the use of the Town Hall for a Nationists’ meeting in support of Mr Gladstone’s Irish proposals.

The Tarawera arrived this morning from New Zealand. Sydney, June 2.

At a public meeting held last night, resolutions were adopted approving the tariff proposed by Government. Holt was brought up for sentence today, and condemned to four years’ hard labor in Darlinghurst gaol. Nows is to band from the Now Hebrides stating that heavy gales lately prevailed there, causing serious damage to plantations. The Tekapo left Newcastle this morning for New Zealand. Brisbane, June 2.

The sailors on board the Auckland Harbor Board’s dredge, No. 121, which has arrived here from Glasgow, have refused to proceed to sea on her. The dredge ran ashore while coming through the Red Sea, and the men allege, in consequence, she is unseawortby in her present condition. Captain Tison, the Shipping Inspector, has boarded the vessel, accompanied by competent marine surveyors, in order to report whether the action of the sailors is well grounded,