TELEGRAMS

Temuka Leader, Issue 1539, 31 July 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAMS

ENGLISH AND FOR FAG N.

London, July 27.

Earl Granville has intimated that the Queensland gunboat Gayundah will be permitted to fly the White Ensign, and that this principle will be extended to other colonial war vessels, according to

circumstances. It is announced that active parleying is now proceeding between the English and French Governments for the withdrawal of the latter’s troops from the New Hebrides. At the farewell supper given by the Colonial Agents-General to Earl Granville, the various speakers on the occasion thanked bis lordship for the court* sy with which they bad been received on all occasions. Lord Granville, in reply, said he fully recognised the assistance he had received from the Agents-General during his terra of office. The Prince of Wales refuses the presidency of the Jubilee Exhibition Committee, on the ground that be will be unable to give the necessary attention, Arrived-—Hurunui, from Wellington (left April 23rd) ; and Dunedin, from Oaraaru (left May 4th). The suicide of the stranger reported yesterday is not that of a colonist. July 28. The barque Crownthorpe, bound for Brisbane from London, having been dismasted and otherwise damaged daring severe weather encountered, was abandoned by her crew, a portion of whom succeeded in reaching Capetown safely, The mails from Australia and New Zealand, per Alameda, from Auckland, June 22nd, were delivered to-day. The Prince of Wales is prepared to accept the executive presidency of the Permanent Colonial Exhibition, if the present guarantees are renewed, and if a yearly grant is made for maintenance by the colonies. Truth says that Mr Gladstone will go on a yachting cruise round the Irish and Scottish coast. Mr Alexander McKennel has been elected Chairman of the Congregational Union for the ensuing year. Intelligence from Labrador shows that a pitiful state of things is existing there. Up to the present 3500 deaths hare occurred from starvation among the Esquimaux and Indians, and fully 15,000 lives are in peril from the same cause. The Indians are eating the bodies of the dead, and, to-add to the horrors of the situation, a large number of bears, which have become ravenous for want of food, are making raids on the settlement, and devouring human beings, News is to hand from Tinneville, a town in the Presidency of Madras, that during a performance the theatre took fire, and was completely destroyed. One hundred of those present were killed in the panic that ensued. July 29. A shocking tragedy is reported from Penzance, Cornwall. A man named James Hawke, who recently returned from Australia, mortally wounded his sister, brother-in-law, and a neighbor by shooting them. He then committed suicide. Baron do Lesaeps’ reports on the Panama Canal show a balance of two hundred and forty-one million francs. He pledges himself to open the Canal in 1889. Amsterdam, July 27. Serious riots, caused by Socialists, occurred yesterday. The troops were called out, and the police fired repeatedly on the mob, who erected barricades in some of the principal streets, Fourteen Socialists were killed and 34 wounded, while 40 policemen, who bore the brunt of the contest with the rioters, were injured more or less seriously. Order was at length restored, and to day the city is quiet. July 28. No further Socialist disturbances have occurred here, and perfect quietness has been restored. The latest account shew 25 Socialists to have been killed in the recent riots. Hong Kong, July 28. A convention has been signed at Pekin between the British and Chinese

Governments under which China formally recognise British rule in Burma!).