TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1521, 19 June 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, June 15

News has been received that the German, English, and the United States Consuls in Samoa have issued a joint proclamation declaring the authority of Malietoa over the Samoan group.

The Marquis of Salisbury slates that his party will not oppose the re-election of the Unionists.

There is great mortality among the British troops stationed at Assouan from fever.

June 16.

Colonel Walkes has been nominated by the Conservative party to contest Midlwhian at the ganeral election,

A contract for the construction of 30 miles of the Midland Railway has been virtually let. The seizure of an American fishing gnack by Canada will form the subject of an enquiry by a joint Commission, The geueral election in Nova Scotia have resulted in the return of candidates favorable to the separation of Nova Scotia from Cauada.

It is reported that the Rev. Mr Thompson, of Cardiff, has been offered the bishopric of Melbourne. The recent suicide of the ex-King of Bavaria caused considerable excitement in Bavaria, and sinister rumors arts current concerning the next King. Sir Alexander Stuart, formerly Premier of New South Wales, who was Buffering from typhoid fever, is dead, aged 61.

Ottawa, June 15.

Telegrams are to hand announcing the total destruction by fire of Vancouver's Town, on the Canadian-Pacific Railway. Upwards of a thousand persons have been rendered homeless by the conflagration.