TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1580, 12 May 1887, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, May 6. The naval defence scheme provides tiiat the squadron will be solely employed to protect floating commerce, and not for hatbor defence.J The Pacific Cable Company propose to establish a cable to Australia, at an annual guarantee of £75,000 for twentyfive years and a tariff of 5s per word. Judge Kay, in delivering judgment on the petition against the SouthEastern Railway Company making a donation to the Imperial Institute, held it was an unlawful appropriation of the Company’s funds Bank ot New Zealand shares have fallen 30s.

Jsmea Grant, novelist, aged sixtyfive years, is dead. In the House of Lords Lord Rosebery repudiated the cesssion of the New Hebrides for the abolition of conrictism in the Pacific. May 7. The latest news to hand from Central Asia states the Russians are masssing troops, and large quantities of supplies at Chardjui, on the Bokhara frontier. May 8. The French Press imply that Russia and the Scandinavian powers have entered into a defensive alliance with France. This intelligence is not credited abroad. May 9.

It is announced that at the grand naval review which is to be held at Portsmouth on the 21st June in connection with the celebration of the Queen’s Jubilee, upwards of a hundred men-of-war will take part in the evolutions. The British Government, replying to a communication from the French Government, have declined officially to take part in the Exhibition to be held in Paris in 1889. Eruptions have occurred in California, by which the town of Montezuma (Monterey) was destroyed. The loss of J life was great, and enormous damage was caused by the unexpected outbreak, Many heartrending scenes were witnessed in the devastated district, A German squadron, under Admiral Knorr, has sailed from Capetown for Sydney. Replying to a question, Sir J. £. Gorst, Under-Secretary for India, stated that the latest news from Afghanistan showed a number of actions had been fought between the Ameer’s troops and the rebels. Both sides claimed the victory, but there was undoubted information to prove that the Ameer was holding his own, and had strongly fortified Herat.

The Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the (jjty of London trvday presented a Jubilee address to the Queen at Buckingham Palace, . Russia has raised the duty on iron and steel. Prioce Bismarck’s revelation that Count Andrassy and M. Tisza secretly agreed with Russia prior to the Turkish war to maintain neutrality in return for the Austrian occupation occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina it causing dismay in Vienna and irritation in Peslb. Paris, May 8, Le Temps to-day states; that negotiations proceeding between The British and French Governments with a view to the neutralisation of the Suez Canal are making good progress.