TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1838, 8 January 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.' London, January ,3j. The rates of freight by sailing ships are unaltered, , Vessels are ye,ry scarce. It is rumored that Princess ionise of Wales is engaged to Lord Fife.. It is expected that the commitleoion national defence will recommend the immediate construction of many iron- , clads and fast cruisers for the parpose of bringing up the navy to an adequate strength. The Maori football team beat Leeds Parish Church Club by two goals to three tries, Messrs Bunion, Ronald & Co., wool brokers, report that the prospects for 1889 indicate a steady supply and firm prices. Mr Gladstone modifies his recent utterances with regard to the temporal status of the Pope, He stales that he is not desirous of seeing the temporal power restored, but is anxious that the Papal prestige should be maintained. A lad named Stevenson, 19 years of age, staboed a Glasgow prostitute in the neck and abdomen. The woman was not killed, but is in a precatio’us condition. The culprit was remanded, He admitted that a desire to imitate “Jack the Ripper” had induced him lo commit the crime. January 4. Truman, Hambary, Buxton & Co., brewers, of Brick Lane, have converted the business into a company, with a capital of millions. Mr Thomas Sexton, M.P. for Belfast, lias been re-elected Lord Mayor of Dublin.

It is proposed to constrnot an uuder- < ground railway from James* Street, i Piccadilly, to, liolburn Circus. i A second deputation headed by Sir i William Armstrong, waited on the i Premier to-day urging that the de- < fpnce of the ports was a national duty nnd not a local one, The Marquis of Salisbury in reply said that while thuy : ought to avoid taking any steps which i might lead to a panic, the existing state of affairs throughout the world rendered it imperative that England should strengthen her defences. He admitted that such defences were of a national character but contended that the i localities so defended should bear a portion of the expenditure. The Government, he added, intends to submit the question for consideration to the House of Commons. A girl ten years of age has been outraged and murdered at Youthbridge, Somersetshire. The body was shockingly mutilated. No arrests have been made. January 5. ! Mr "W. O'Brien, editor of the United Ireland, has been summoned to answer a charge of inciting the Kerry people to resist payment of rents. January 6, The Maori footballers defeated Kirkstall Club by two goals an<* a try to one goal. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company yesterday, a dividend of 10 per cent and a bonus of five per cent was declared. £12,000 was carried to reserve. PaeiSj Jtnnary 4, General Bonlanger has issued an address to the electors of Paris, in which he protests his fidelity to the Republic, and repudiates any design of making himself dictator. [ M. Venstier, of Nice, has invented a gun which can fire three thousand shots in ten minutes. January 5. The election for the department of the Seine, which takes place on khe 29tb inst., is causing the greatest excitement in Paris. The Bonapartists and Loyalists support the nomination of General Boulanger. Berlin, January 3. The Emperor William has conferred i the Order of the Black Eafcle on Von Puttkamer, formerly Vice-President ot the Prussian Council and Minister of the Interior. January 5. Professor Geffkin, who was charged with the publication of the late Emperor's diary, has been released from custody and proceedings against him have been abandoned. Rome, January 4. The Pope has approved of the ceremonies to be observed in connection with the canonisation of the Ven. Louis Chanel. They will take place at Putuna in the Friendly Islands, where the rev. gentleman was murdered in 1841. Belgrade, January 4. The King of Servia has granted a genera! amnesty and dissolved the Sknptschins. January 5. The Servian Ministry h;as resigned. Baku, January 4, A train on the Tiflis railway south of the Caucasus has been snowed up. Fourteen passengers are reported to be dead j and twenty dying. Two hundred people lin all are in imminent danger of being frozen to death unless rescued immediately.

Singapore, January 3. The British Borneo Company has been forced to take up arms against some of the natives on their territory, and 6n encounter has taken place, but 1 no details are to band. I San Francisco, January 2. f The total eclipse of the sun yesterday 8 was well observed at Californian stations. The alleged intra-mercurial planet was not seen. t New 'York, January 4. ] Kilraiu has accepted a challenge from v J. L. Sullivan to fight in a 24 feet ring for 10,000 dollars a side and the championship of the world. Washington, January 3. Seven negro servants of Colonel Paxton of Areola, Illinois, plotted together to rob the house and then burn it down. The better to carry out their purpose they drugged members of the household by tampering'-with their coffee,"but the soporific proved ineffective, and in seme instances the victims awoke. The result was that the criminals were all captured, apd it is fully expected that they will be lynched. { January 5. A Bill incorporating the Nicaragua Canal Company has passed Congress. The Foreign Relations Committee of Congress has reported favorably on £ Senator Edmonds’ resolution against I any European Government being al- £ lowed to cot the Panama Canal. * 0 t AUSTRALIAN CABLE. 1* r I

1 Melbourne, January 4. ' During the floods in the Castlemaine ' district many houses were washed away, ' land the occupants, who had narrow ; escapes for their lives, had to take refuge ■ in trees. Fitzgerald, a brewer on Wi“* 1 tor’s Flat, was flooded out, and it is 1 estimated that the damage will amount to £IO,OOO, The Canapaspe river rose twenty-three feet, but is now falling, 1 At a meeting of the Royal Standard Investment Company, some extraordinary allegations were made against the directors. Mr J. M. Larnacb, of Dunedin, who occupies a seat on the board, in a lengthy statement, asserted that the directors had expended some ‘ £320,000 in the purchase of properties from certain firms and from themselves at prices greatly in excess of their value. A committee of enquiry was appointed. January 5. Arrived Te Anau from the Bluff. Sidney, January 4. Arrived-f-Taupo. Strenuous efforts are? being made to obtain a reprieve for Louisa Collins, who was convicted, after two tria.'e, of poisoning her husband, bat His Excellency the Governor has declined to accede. Good rains have fallen in the western districts. Sailed—Mararoa for Auckland. The three-masted scnooner Buster encountered a severe gale off Gabo Island and was dismasted. As the vessel was laden with dynamite, and the stump of the mast was grinding among the detonators, the crew took to the boats and abandoned her, tearing that an explosion would occur. The Buster was insured in ihe South British office. A vessel has boon sent in search of her. January 5. Arrived —Tekapo from Oamaru. January 6, A hawker named Oliver has been discovered murdered near Young, and it is believed that the motive for the ; crime was robbery. Adelaide, January 4, There is an alarming spread of the oodlin moth among the orchards, Brisbane, January 4. _ The drought is being severely felt in New Guinea, and, as there is already some scarcity of food, it is anticipated a famine will result during the year, A Cingalese named Peter has been murdered at Charters Towers, and two persons supposed to be connected with it have been arrested. Perth, January 4, The Imperial Government have ordered the Executive Council to determine the merits of the petition of the West Australian newspaper, impugning Chief Justice Onslow’s partiality. It is considered here that the Home Government have practically ordered Mr Onslow to be tried by his enemies, January 6. Lord Kuutsford has cabled that he is willing to agree to a compromise in connection with granting responsible government to Western Australia. He suggests that the Upper House should be nominated by His Excellency the Governor until the population has reached 60,000, or after the expiration of six years, if this number not then reached, an elective chamber to formed.