TELEGRAMS

Temuka Leader, Issue 2165, 19 February 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, February 15. It is considered likely Ithttt' Messrs Dillon and O’Bien will be |ble»Sed at on -ariy date. " Major Bromhead, one of the heroes of Rorke’s Drift, is dead. February 17. Canon Creighton, of Worcester, succeeds Dr MeGac as Bishop of Peterborough. Offers have been made to take up the South Australian loan, but the terms are calculated to create a difficulty on the exchange. Judge Scott, of the Bombay High Court of lent to Egypt to reorganise the criminal courts, has completed a scheme of judicial reform whidh the Government iiave adopted. Sir Charles Dilka delivered a lecture at Brussels on the condition of labour in Australia, He said that one result of the recent strike was that the workmen were taking an active interest in politics. The hostility to the Chinese would compel Great Britain to renounce her treaty obligations. In bis opinion it would be better entirely to exclude Chinese from Victoria. While a clerk ot the Bank of Scotland was collecting a cheque at the National Provincial Bank of England, a thief stole his satchel, containing £12,000 in in notes, and escaped, In the Honse of Commons to-day Mr Motley’s motion, censuring the Executive for their action at Tipperary, was defeated by 820 to 245. Mr Justin McCarthy, who holds Mr Egan’s shares in the Doited Ireland newspaper, is seeking to secure the control of that paper. It is reported that an insurrection has broken out in Bolivia. Berlin, February 16. The Emperor has expresed disapproval of Prince Bismarck’s altitude towards the Government, which will only damage his prestige. Prince Bismarck disclaims being the author of the text in the Press on ihe Prussian policy. Madrid, February 16. The Spanish Government are granting an amnesty to political offenders. Rome, February 15. Cardinal Sucido Paroeoohi, VioarGenerat of his Holiness the Pope, has been detected, intriguing to secure his succession to the papacy. The Pope has commanded him to resign. Washington, Feb, 15. Admiral Porter, commander of the Doited States Navy, is dead. St, Johns, Feb. 14. The Legislature of Newfoundland have passed a resolution affirming that the action of Great Britain with regard to the fisheries dispute gives evidence of utter disregard of the wellbeing of the colony, which is calculated to disturb its loyalty, Ottawa, Feb. 16. Sir Charles Tapper, who is delivering a series of speeches throughout the country, declares that the McKin'ey Act is regarded by the British Govern, raent as intended to cripp’e Canada and coerce it into annexation to the Doited States. Sir John Thompson, Minister of Justice, has created a sensation by producing a pampplet written by a prominent Canadian Liberal, end secretly circulated by the Senate of the United States Congress, asserting that the Liberals of Canada are ready for annexation; and • bat only Sir John Macdonald, the Premier, is standing out.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, Feb, 16. \ (J, E. Labertouohe, the . defaulting clerk in charge of Imperial pensions, committed frauds by drawing pensions <>f men long since dead. February 12. The ship Agnes Oswald, which arrived from Liverpool last night, reported having sighted the ship which was on her voyage from Hamburg to Valparaiso. She informed the captain of the Agnes Oswald that she had been run down by the ship Talokda bound for Calcutta to London. Ihe Utter sank in fiyo minutes, all the officers and nineteen of the crew being drowned. The Labnssa rescued six of the crew. One party baye obtained Uozs of gold per load at Peak Hill. In the (Oastern mine 300 tons of staff when crushed yielded 3200z5. News from Samoa states that the first municipal elections are concluded, and that six fairly representative men have been returned. The contest provoked a good deal of ill-feeling. The barque Ahaka, bound from Newcastle to San. Francisco with a cargo of coals, sprang a leak during a severe gale which she encountered off the North (Jape of New Zealand. She put into Apia, where she was abandoned to the underwriters. Melbourne, February 17. Serii us bush fires are raging in the • vicinity of Stawell, One station has ■ lost 10,000 sheep.

Adelaide, Feb, 17. ; The value of the imports for 1890 was !£8,827,000. The wheat export for the Isame period amounted to 7,775,000 Ibusbels, and of flour to 66,000 tons. Hobart, February 16 The Attorney-General explains that the Federal Constitution scheme, which Ihe is drafting, is not intended for sub- • mipsion to the Federal Convention, and !his object is merely to have it privately discussed by the Tasmanian delegates. Copies of the scheme, be states, were marked confidential, and the publication lof details of the scheme was a breach of confidence. Brisbane, February 17. i The yield of gold in Queensland for j 1890 was 588,147pz5, which if a 'decrease of 150,9000Z3 as compared with the returns of 1889, Professor H. B. Allen, who has been 'investigating Dr Koch’s cure for consumption on bebaf of Victoria, has arrived here on his way to Melbourne. Uo declines to express an opinion as to 'the efficiency of the remedy until ha has submitted his report to the Premief'-oM Victoria. '