TELEGRAMS.
ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Nov. 26. Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, promised the Colonial Office that if England should ,need the Australian squadron it would be placed at her service. Lord S* iefanry has agreed to give farther consideration to the proposal for holding another Colonial Conference. Benzon, the “Jubilee Plunger,” has been adjudicoled bankrupt. the Pelorus, one of the Australian squadron, was launched to-day. Nov. 27. A. Bill drafted by Sir Francis Dillon Bell will be introduced into the Imperial Parliament next session, dealing with unclaimed stock dividends. , Foreigners resident in the colonies, having made complaints to the Colonial Office of the difficulty in securing complete naturalisation for the whole of Australia, the Unrat authorities express themselves in favour of amending the
naturalisation laws so as to fall in with the views of the petitioners. Nov. 28.
Ih» barque Etna, which left Sydney for Callao on April 16th, and the ship County of Carnarvon, which left Newcastle for Valparaiso on June Ist, have been posted at Lloyd’s as missing. Lord Salisbury has protested against the encroachment of the Portuguese on the Zambesi, At the Unionist Convention held at Nottingham a resolution was passed in
favor of the principles adopted by the National party. Lord Salisbury concurs in the resolution. Munster, Nov. 26. All the miners entombed by the subsidence of the mine at Recklinghausen, have been rescued alive. Berlin, Nov. 26. At the opening of the Reichstag Count Herbert Bismarck said the peace of Eutope was assured. He said the Government intended to abolish the differential tariff with Prance and Italy, New York, Nov. 28. Arrived—Brigantine Eleanor Vernon from Auckland (left August sth), One hundred and sixty houses and one hundred boot factories, covering an area of 60 acres, have been destroyed by fire at Lynn, a manufacturing town of Hassacbussetts, San Francisco, Nov. 26. The Sants Cruz Athletic Club, of California, offer 30,000J0l for a fight to s finish between Sullivan and Jackson. Nov. 28. Information has reached here that a large lunatic asylum at Blackmoutb, a town in Idaho State, has been destroyed by fire, and that eight of the unfortunate patients perished in the flames. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Nov. 27. The Centennial Hall was opened this afternoon by his Worship the Mayor (Alderman John Harris) in . the presence of a brilliant gathering. In the evening his Worship gave a ball in honor of the event.
The claim brought by the owners of the steamer Centennial against the owners of the Kanahooka for damages and loss sustained in a collision, in which the former steamer sank, has been dismissed, The owners of the Kanahooka were awarded £2335 damages and costs. The judge held that the collision between the steamers Centennial and Kanahooka bad been brought about by the master of the former vessel.
Arrived —Ship Candia, from Hamburg. On the voyage out she picked up the crew of the barque Norge, from Grangemouth to Buenos ; Ayres. The Norge bad a cargo of Scotch coals, which took fire, and the vessel was burnt to the water’s edge. Sailed—R.M.S. Alameda, for Auckland, with the oufward San Francisco mail. Nov. 28, The railway transactions for the ytiar show the gross earnings to be £2,580,000, and the working expenses £1,634,000, leaving a net earning of £946,000, which, upon the capital invested in lines open, gives a return of per cent. Melbourne, Nov. 27. Sailed—larawera, for the Bluff. Nov. 38.
The Earl of Hopetoun, the new Governor, arrived here to-day and met with the most brilliant reception ever extended to a viceregal party in Victoria. The captain of the Messogeries Maritimes Company’s steamer Yarra has been acquitted of the charge of negligence in suppressing the fact that there were cases of smallpox on board his vessel when he entered the port on the 12th November, Adelaide, Nov. 27. The Legislative Council have thrown ont the Payment of Members Bill. Hobart, Nov. 27.
R.M.S. Tongariro arrived from Plymouth, wa the Cape, at five o’clock this morning, and leaves again for Wellington at eight to-night. She landed fifty-
five passengers here for Australian ports. Thursday Island, Nov. 28. The Bev. Mr Savage, who was reported to have bees murdered by the natives at Debear, sew Guinea, has arrived here.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1976, 30 November 1889, Page 1
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