TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2250, 5 September 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. V; London, Sept. 1. Cargo to the valne of £2OOO has been saved from the steamer Wallarah, wrecked <m Dassen Island. The vessel $d th\ remainder of the cargo were sold by auction for £2OOO. Lord>Lansdowne's tenants, who resisted payment of rent under the Plan of Campaign, are asking for a settlement with the landlord. ■

Mr Parnell's demands include . the release of dynamiters. He made a violent speech against Sir W. V. Harcourt. x

The Paris correspondent of the Times states that the Russian Government has received news that the mother of the Emperor of China' is directing an anti-foreign movement, with the object of expelling all Europeans from China. < The Times is publishing a series of articles on the resources of Australia. In a leader commenting on the facts disclosed in these articles it says the results have never been exceeded in the same space of time, and urges the colonies to take no heed of pessimists. Courage and enterprise have worked magic, and the colonies have a marvellous record.

Ten men were killed by the colliery explosion at Bedminster. Twelve thosand miners at Wrexham, and twenty-five thousand at Chesterfield, have struck, demanding weekly wages and eight hours a day. Mr Francis Adams, an Australian journalist, in an article in the Fortnightly Review on " Social Life in Australia," says the native-born colonials are of a high strung temperament, alternately displaying langour and activity, somewhat attainted with cruelty. He describes Melbourne as pagan, while convictism is not yet extinct in Sydney, Mr Adams asserts the 'Sydney Bulletin is a terror to the opulent class. The Congress of Orientalists has opened, in the Middle Temple. Arrangements are being made for a good collection of English pictures being sent to the Launceston Exhibition.

- ..September 2,

Gales are raging in Ireland, and >in some districts the crops are several feet under water.

A severe South-westerly gale has been experienced in the Channel and several wrecks are reported.

The Australian and New, Zealand Mortgage Company declare a dividend of 4 per cent, for the year. The river Barrow in Leinster has over-flowed its banks and submerged thousands, of acres.

By a fire at some stables in Ayr nine racehorses were burned to death.

The Queen will pay a visit to the German Emperor at Stolzenfels on the Rhine next spring. She was entertained there by the King of Prussia in 1845.

The Dockers' Union invite the Trades Union Congress to support a State Board of Arbitration with equal representation of capital and labour.

Sept. 3,

The entire herd of pedigree shorthorn cattle, the property Of MrPerkin Moore, of Cumberland, have been destroyed in consequence of their suffering from pleuro-pneumonia. It is intended to raise au Indian regiment to garrison Hong-Kong. The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon has passed the acute stage of his illness. Paris, Sept. 2.

The head of one of the public departments has been arrested on a charge of stealing £40.000. The tramway men are going out on strike again

Berijn. Sept. 1

Baron Von Sturum, one of the largest employers in Germany, has given his men a substantial increase in wages aud pensions to meet the increased price of food.

Sept. 2.

The Emperor has left for Austria to attend the military manoeuvres. He was accorded an enthusiastic reception along the route. Germany is arranging to float a loan. German experts consider that small calibre magazine rifles minimise the advantage of artillery in battle, and that it will be necessary to invent a new description of cannon, Sofia, Sept. 2.

By mutual agreement Servia and Bulgaria have withdrawn their troops from their respective frontiers. Vienna, Sept. 2. A heavy landslip in the Tyrol is creating an immense lake.

St. Petersburg, Sept. 2. The export of horses from Russia will probably be forbidden, It is stated that the Russian Government intend to raise a loan in Paris.

Seven thousand Russian Jews have left for England,the United States, and Australia.

Jewish emigrants to Palestine are returning to Odessa in a destitute condition, Russia is immensely increasing the issue of paper ronbles. Russia is purchasing Suez Canal bonds with a view of strengthening French influence.

Constantinople, Sept. 3

The Italian railway inspector who was kidnapped by brigands in Salonica has been released. The wife and son of a Greek advocate who were kidnapped by brigands at Janina Epirno, European Turkey,. were released on payment of £2OOO.

Cairo, Sept. 1

The Dervishes are again making headway in some force. A body of them are approaching Sarras.

I Capetown, Sept. 1. General J3ooth has sailed for Australia.

Washington, Sept. 1

An express train was thrown off the rails hear Troy, in Indiana. Six persons were killed and forty injured: New York, Sept. 2.

A Russian cruiser fired on and captured an American sealer carrying out its calling in the Behring Sea. Robbers stopped a train at Ogdensburgh, and stole £7OO. The sheriff is pursuing the offenders With bloodhounds Mails are now carried from Japan to New York in thirteen days. A new cable has been laid from the United States to Brazil. Ottawa, Sept. 2.

During a hurricane the steamer Dunmurray capsized off the coast of Nova Scotia, and eight persons were drowned.

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Mr A. Senecal, Superintendent of Printing, on a charge of illegal practice in connection with the Government Printing and Stationery Department. Several witnesses have testified before the Committee as. to corruption existing in the printing bureau.

The Committee inquiring into the alleged corruption ot the officials in connection with contracts for the Baie Chaleur railway report that the charges have not been sustained. .

Sept'. 3

In the House of Commons to-day Sir R. J. Cartwright moved that the census returns showed that Canada ought to revert to freetrade, as protection had been a complete failure and caused the exodus of population to the United States. The Hon. G. E. Foster/Minister of Finance, defended the fiscal policyof the Government, and contended that the exodus was the result of the Liberals continually decrying Canada.

Buenos Ayres, Sept. 2.

The Argentine press is hostile to Baron Hirsch's project for settling refugee Jews in that country.

Mexico, Sept. 3.

The Mexican ranche proprietors are paying the expenses in connection with experiments in Texas and elsewhere for producing rain.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, Sept. 6. ► Burston's five-storey malthouse in Flinders street was partially destroyed by fire. The total damage is estimated at £IO,OOO. The premises are insured for over £9OOO.

The House has agreed to the report of the Committee on the Federation Bill. On the question that the Bill be referred back to the Legislative Council, the Premier stated that when finally passed the measure would be submitted to the electorates. Sydney, Sept. 2.

In the Divorce case to-day a decree absolute was granted in the case of MrW. McMillan (ex-Colonial Treasurer) v. Mrs McMillan, with costs against Brain Darley (actor) the corespondent. An affidavit of intervention was filed by the editor of a weekly paper, on the ground that the decree nisi was obtained contrary to justice, as the Judge had refused the intervenor access to papers on the ground that he was no party to the case. The intervention was disallowed, and the Court directed the editor not to publish the evidence in the case.