TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2112, 16 October 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

I ENGLISH AND .FOREIGN. 1 Londos, Oct. 12. The ship Wellington, bound to the polonies, came into collision with a (steamer in the English Channel, Her bows were stove in, and [ußbo/.returned jto London for repairs. Tha lcargi was hot damaged, 1 . , _ The Mining Exhibition at the Crystal Palace has been closed, I It is reported here that, the British gunboats have entered the Zambesi river without any offered by 'the Portuguese gonboiifl, 1 j A womah belongmgt to the dower Whitechapel class that «Jack the Ripper ” hired tfbmooU frdtn| her. 'She describes him 4s %^ young mah ot 'superior ■ class. She saw portions of iliver brains, soma wedding rings, and blood stains in the room, and «s soon as ■the man observed she had noticed them he bolted. This was on the day of' the (last mhrder, ' -

1 ThV woman who furnished the particulars about “Jack the Kipper” has eiace modified her statements, and. little importance is now attached to them. Warrants have been issued against Mesrs Dillon and;o’Brien as absconders, they Embarked on a! cargo steamer at W aterford and caught the French mail steamer for the United States from Havre, Their sureties resist the entrbatmeat of the bail, on the ground that a Ww charge had been introdfiteJinto the case. The trial will proceed without the two escapees, • The death is annooned of Mr J. B. Thorold Kogers, Professor of Political Kconorny, at Oxford University. Professor Sellars, aged 65 is dead. The statue of the Lev, Dr Lang, has been completed. Five girls and one man were killed, and many parsons injured, by a fire which broke out in a hat factory at Smithfield. Arrived— Diani. barque, from Lyttelton (Jun* 28'h) ; the Frederick, hirque, from Timaru (June 15'b), London, Oct. 14.

The Portuguese press are again making vicious attacks against Great Britain, and inspiring the populace to attack British residents. Berne, Oct. 14. Affairs at Ticino are quisling down, Madrid, Oct. 14.

News h*s been’ : rec-ived that the Spanish expedition sent from the Pbillipine Islands to punish tbs natives of the Caroline Islands* who surprised .'and killed a Spanish officer and twenty-seven men, h«s been succesful. Tho garrison stormed the native positions, and the losses ol the latter were heavy, nhi'e the attacking party lost one officer and several men.

Vienna, Oct, 12. Conrad Coder Kranz has b«ea «p pointed Chief Justice of Samos. Buda Pesth, Oct. 12. f

The Peeth Lloyd stat-s that a doctor named Hurnch threw a bomb at the Czar while hunting, but only succeeded in wounding General Werder. Gursch was immediately arrested.

Bessels, Oct. 13. By an explosion at the Pyrotechnic school at Bruges, the capital of West Flanders, thirteenmiloseast from Ofetend, five persons ware killed and forty in. jured. Madras, Oct, 18.

Daring the elections at Pon Hoherry. a maritime town, capital of French settlements in India, eighty-five miles S.S.W. of here, rionng broke out, and the yotjng had to be suspended, Numerous conflicts between rioters and miUary are recorded.

Capetown, Oct. 181. The R.M.S. RimutaU sailed (or New Zealand yesterday