TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1551, 10 February 1887, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Feb. 6. Mr Healey has been elected for Longford. Rasaloula, the rebel chief, has arranged a league with the coast tribes in order to prevent the European occupation of Abyssinia or the Soudan, France and Russia decline to sanction the abolition of forced labor or service in Egypt. Feb. 7. Mr Whiffens, liquidator in the Commercial Bank of South Australia, has now sufficient funds,to at once pay the colonial creditors 20s in the £ with iuterest,and the English will receive 13s in the £. Messrs Henry Bull and Co, purchased the London assets, and Messrs J. S. Wilson and Co. the Sydney assets for £75,000, Sir Charles Topper states that England will subsidise a mail from Vancouver to China and Japan, The amount of the subsidy is £IOO,OOO annually, The express train from Boston to Montreal, which ran off the rails on the Hudson River bridge on to the ice, and which subsequently took fire, was burnt in thirty minutes. From the position of the train, it was impossible to render any assistance, and seventy lives were lost. The Prince of Wales has left London for Cannes. A large shipment of Scotch and Rhine salmon ova and Rhine char, carp, and trout will be forwarded by the Aorangi. Bubsar beat Perkins in a sculling race at Maine easily by three lengths. A paper on colonial fruits has been read by Mr Morris at the Colonial Institute. In it he stated that the Victorian canned fruits are equal to the best Californian, and ought to be more largely exported to England ; also that dried figs and Adelaide pears were greatly valued in the market. A large quantity, of apples and pears were grown in Perth, and the Adelaide seedless currants were equal to the best imported. New Zealand and Victorian apples were also mentioned as valuable articles of export. Feb. 8. Id the House of Commons last night, Mr Parnell, in a speech which was moderate in tone, moved an amendment to the Address-in-Reply, denying there was disorder in Ireland when rents have been suitably reduced. Autonomy, not repression, he declared, was the remedy for the present crisis. It is reported that Earl Dunraven, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, will shortly resign his appointment for the same reason winch caused the resignation of Lord Randolph Churchill. Sir Charles Warren, Chief of the Metropolitan Police, has forbidden the torchlight procession of Socialists which was proposed to take place in (ho Wes* End of London to-night* to celebrate the anniversary of the previous Socialistic riots. Rome, Feb. 7. It is reported that Count Robilante, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has resigned his appointment, in consequences of the Italian reverses in MasBowah, Suez, Feb. 6. Mr H. M. Stanley, who is proceeding to rescue Emir Bey, has left for Zanzibar, Aden, Feb. 7, News has been received from Negus, Abyssinia, written to the General commanding the Italian forces at Massowab ( demanding the evacuation of that district by the Italians. Rangoon, Feb. 6. Sir Frederick Roberts sailed to-day for Calcutta.