TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2249, 3 September 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Aug. 30. i It is reported that the Maybrick case is to be re-opened. Professor Brown, of Dookie Agricultural College, Victoria, has written a series of valuable letters to The Times upon the progress of agriculture in the colonies. August 31. Mr Stanley is in London on crutches. The Standard asserts that the Sultan of Turkey has yielded to the Czar’s demands, and pays an indemnity for stopping Russian vessels going through the Dardanelles, and that henceforth the Dardanelles is to be open to Russian vessels and closed against those of other nations. Sept, 1. A conference of Labor Unions sitting at Leeds, representing 50,000 men, have resolved in favor of the immediate federation of Trade and Labor Unions. Mrs Besant has announced that since Mdme. Blavatsky’s death she has received letters from the spirit world similar to Madame’s.

Lord Salisbury has disallowed the ordinance forbidding shipping work on Sundays, which was passed by the Hong Kong Executive. Captain O’ Shea is about to marry an English lady. By an explosion in Malago colliery, Bedminster, several miners lost their lives. The cricket season is now over. Surrey has again secured the county championship with 10 points out of a possible 16. There is a boom in American railway stocks both in London and New York. Mr Parnell demands that the Liberals shall give a pledge of release political prisoners if they return to power. Paris, Aug. 30. Admiral Gervais has sent in a report uporuthe reception of the fleet in England couched in the enthusiastic terms. The official estimates gives the number of lives lost in Martinique as 378, and puts the loss of property at two millions sterling. The French Government has granted a million of francs (£40,000) to the Martinique authorities, a famine ■ being feared in the island. Rosie, Sept. 1. The Italian Budget estimates that the expenditure for 1892 will be reduced by 25,000,000 francs. Berne, August 21. The Simplon railway tunnel is estimated to cost 80,000,000 francs and the boring will take eight and a-half years to complete. Berlin, Aug. 30. Chancellor Von Caprivi has introduced a Bill in the Reichstag to suppress drunkenness. It provides that all inebriates who are reducing their families to indigence or endangering the safety of other people shall be placed under guardianship, The Emperor assisted in drafting the bill, Belgrade, Ang 30.

M. Michaelvitch, the Servian Minister of Finance, has resigned, because he finds himself nnable to collect nineteen million francs of taxes which are in arrear.

St. Petersburg, Aug 30. The Russian naval authorities are adopting the Cana gun for their ships. Serious riots are taking place in South Russia, and the agitation is spreading, and several grain firms have become bankrupt. Sept. 1. The Nihilists have murdered the Chief of the Police atßierlair Zarkoff, near Kiev. Constantinople, Aug 30. Reports from Arabia represent the rebellion in Yemen as suppressed. The Turkish Commander entered Sana in triumph with fourteen camel-loads of human heads. August 30. Servia and Bulgaria ape both mobilisiug heavy bodies of troops on their frontiers, for the purpose, it is alleged, of manoeuvres. The Porte advices Servia to manoeuvre in the interior of the country. Tfiepe is an feeling about the meaning of these preparations. Hong Kong, August 31, News from Japau states that on August 26th during a typhoon atKoebe, Hiogo, 250 Japanese and foreigners were lost, while at another town 45 were killed by facing bouses. New York, Aug, 31. A Detroit parachutist, who had ascended to a height of a mile and aquarter, fell and was smashed to pieces. Washington, Aug. 30. The American Labor Unions are protesting against the admission of refugee Jews on the ground that wages , will be reduced.

Ottawa, Sept, 1. The Hon. .J. Chapleau and other Tory Catholics in Canada have appealed to the Pope against the’political actions of the national party led by M. Mercier, Premier of Quebec.