TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2167, 24 February 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.; London, February 19 j The grippe of Wales is being re-elected Grand 0 Master of the Masonibjraternjty. the Admiralty has ''determined'to i reopen the Egeria case, the Bank of England has repaid the Bank of France the gold advanced daring Barings' crisis. A, firm has offt»red to take no £IOO,OOO of the Sooth Australian loan immediately and the/bajaucejo. Jane at •he minimum at which the loan Was placed, on condition that interest is pall from the date of issue. [ Natal has been granted resposjibie government, bat'Zaloland is to remain under Imperial control. Aa Empire Trade League, for j the promotion of preferential inter-British trade, has been formed in London. The movement has received srong support in Canada. The death is anonnced of Earl Beaacbamp, aged 61, A meeting of joint stook banks jh»B \ been called to discuss Mr Gosehen's i Haggestiona for strengthening the cash reserve of the Bank ot England. iAt present the banks appear little disponed to disturb the status quo. The Waterloo cop was won by Colonel , North's Fo'lerton, : Messrs Fawcejtt's Faster and Faster being the runner up. j Sir Charles Halle, the eminent pietist who visited Australia last year, has arranged another visit, opening in Melbourne in June. He proposes to give forty,concerts in various centres. Mr Duncan, editor of the Matrimonial News, has paid Miss Knowles the amount of the judgment on the breach of promise case, £IO,OOO. \ Paris, Feb. 19|. The Empress Frederic will shojrtlf arrive in Paris, with the abject | of inducing French artists to exhibit at jthe fortbcomming Art Exhibition in Berlin. A great sensation has been caused both in Paris and Berlin by the announcement of her intention, February 21. Admiral Barriere is dead. The Dowager Empress Victoria will remain in Paris for a week. She is going about seeing the stghtß of the city unattended. Bbblin, February 19]. General Caprivi stated in a Council of Stale that it was beneath the dignity! of the Empire to punish Bismarck. The latter deolares his censure is simply Ihe invention of his enemies. February 20. The illness of the -Emperor, is, denied. The Empersr, speaking' at Bjradeuburg, expressed his determination! to combat the disobedience now abroad., Count Herbert Bismarck, disapproving of the attitude taken up by his father, hae gone on a visit to Eygpt.j The German loan of 450,000,000 marks has been largely subscribed, Lisboit, Feb 20 i The Pormguese Government arp trying to raise a loan of £9 000 000, in Paris. NbwYork, Feb, 21 - f The estimated cost of the construction nf tbfl building for the Chicago World's Fair, which opens on May Ist 1893, is 18,000,000, dollars. A railway accident, attended by SjSad loss of lifa, occurred to-day, A pas- " senger train passing, through a tunnel t"le<Jcoped an empty train, and vrbile;the>< debris was burning, a third engine ran into the wreckage. Fifteen persons were killed. Washington, Feb. 19. The Senate, in addition to the subsidy, has voted 25,000d01s for soundings for a cable at Honolulu. The Senate has by a large majority passed the Copyright Bill, which w*s temporarily laid aßidc, Feb. 20. The remains of the late General Sherman were removed from New York to St Louis, eßeorted by twenty thousand troops. The flood at Johnatowo is subsiding. The loss at Pittsburgh from the flood amoints to 1,000,000 dollars. Vali-araiso, Feb. 21. The Chilian insurgents have eiptared Iquique. The town of Pisagua has been destroyed by the insurgents. St. Johns, Feb. 21. The Newfoundland Douse of Assembly charges the Marqaiu of Salisbury with neglect in making the colonies' interests subservient to party politics. Bubkos , Ayres, Feb ,21. Further disturbances.have taken place here, and the city is io a state of seige. An attempt was made to assassinate Ganeral Roca, Minister of the Interior, bat it failed. I Ottawa, Feb. 21. Despite the treaßon revelations made by Sir John McDonald in his recent epeecb, the Canadian Liberals regard their chance as a pood fighting one. AUSTRALIAN CABLE, Svdmev, Feb. 20. Bradley, ex manager of the Deyon- , shire street Branch ot lha English and

Scottish Chartered Bank, has absconded. His defalcations are believed to bo very heavy!, February 21. A bootmaker named Baville has been arrested on a charge of being concerned in a robbery of bank notes to the amount of £2600 from an Adelaide stock broker. The’alleged offence was committed a year ago, ‘ Dr Vt ilkinson commences operations wilh Koch’s toberoulina in Sydney Hospital on Monday. Melbourne, Feb. 20. Arrived—Hauroto, from Bluff. Febraary 22,. McKenzie’s coffee and spice mills were partially destroyed by fire last night. The is roughly estimated at £BOOO, which is covered by insurance. The Vic-orian Amateur Trotting Club’s autumn meeting was he'd at Giantfield yesterday. The following is the result of the principal event ; — Oakleigh Handicap, 5J furlongs. Wild Rose, 7st 5.1 b (F ood) 1; Bpi, 7st 61b(Power) 2 ; Radbo, 7st 12lb (Jamieson) 3. Hobart, Febraary 20. R.M.S. Aorangi arrived from London via tbs Cape at 9 o’clock this morning and leaves again for Wellington at 5 o’clock this afternoon. She brings seventeen passengers for Australian ports and fifty-seyen for New Zealand.