TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2252, 10 September 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Sept. 6. The barque Hudson, from Lyttelton (May 16th), has arrived at Queenstown. She reports that a fire broke out in the lazarette during the voyage, which was only extinguished after a desperate Struggle. [The Hudson’s cargo consisted of 10,826 sacks of wheat, shipped by the Kaiapoi Milling and Produce Company, National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand, agents.]

The Irish Tenants’ Defence Fund has reached £22,500. Mr Gladstone, in a letter, expresses himself in favor of an increase in the nnmber of labor members, but not of a labor party. Class parties, he says, make queer Parliaments. The week’s imports show an increase of £1,420,000, exports a decrease of £2,147,000.

The report that the Marquis of Salisbury had disallowed the ordinance forbidding any shipping work on Sundays which was by the Hong Kong Executive, is denied.

Paris, Sept, 7,

During the manoeuvres of the French troops five soldiers died from sunstroke and fifty others are suffering from the heat.

Berlin, Sept. 7

Siemens and Halske, electrical engineers, have submitted to the German Government a scheme for constructing eight lines, of a total length of forty miles, of elevated electric Lailway in the city and suburbs. The cost is put down at eighty-four million marks. The Kaiser had a great reception at the Bavarian military manoeuvres. Constantinople, Sept. 7.

It is reported that the Vizier has been imprisoned on a charge of complicity in a plot to depose the Sultan. The Turkish Government has decided not to allow Jews to enter Palestine,

St. Petersburg, Sept, 7. Gunsberg, a leading Nihilist, has committed suicide.

A Jewish doctor at Odessa is charged with inoculating rich Germans and Jews with an iufectious skin disease, at a hundred sovereigns apiece, for the purpose of enabling them to avoid conscription. Pekin, Sept. 7.

It is alleged that the cause of the recent revolt was the conveyance of a Chinese infant foundling to a French convent. v .

There is an indication that the great Powers are preparing an ultimatum with respect to the Chinese difficulty. Ottawa, Sept. 6.

Sir A. Cartwright’s motion in favor of a return to freetrade was defeated by a majority of 21. ' Sept. 7.

The Committee of Enquiry recommend that Thomas McGreevy be expelled from the House of Commons, but they have been unable to agree as to Sir H. Langevin ? s guilt. An enquiry into the charge of rendering fraudulent accounts against Schultz, Lieut,-Governor of Manitoba, has, been opened. The Commission which was appointed to investigate the charge of selling Government positions against Mr Cochrane, M.P., admitted that he proved that he had restricted himself to selling places for purposes of raising political funds, a practice which has prevailed in the Dominion for years. Washington, Sept. 6. The United States Government has recognised the Junta of Chili. The highwaymen who stuck up and robbed a train on the Southern Pacific Line were overtaken after a long pursuit in Texas, and thirteen of them killed. In the fight two of the pursuers were killed. The money taken was recovered.

The dynamite explosion at White Pigeon in Michigan caused damage to the extent of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars and the church spire was shattered.

The census shows that the wealth of the United States has increased by no less than one third during the last decade. Sept. 7.

Just before an execution at St. Joseph, Missouri, a priest handed the condemned man a revolver. He fired twice at himself without serious effect and w r as carried bleeding and struggling to the scaffold, where the sentence was eventually carried into effect. The husband of the Queen of Hawaii is dead.

San Francisco, Sept. 7.

The Royal Tar, from Sydney, has put into San Francisco. The captain and first mate died of fever, and the crew are helpless with scurvy. Valparaiso, September 6.

The English warship at Valparaiso has been threatened by the Congressionalists.

Capetown. Sept. 7.

The English football team did not suffer a single defeat during their tour.