TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2256, 19 September 1891, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

'London, Sept. 15.

A British syndicate has purchased the principal type foundries in America. v

An Indian colonel named Desmond has accepted the challenge of a thought reader named Stuart Cumberland for £IOOO to demonstrate the existence of occult powers. ?

The British fleet has left Mytelene, and it is conluded that only ordinary manoeuvres were being carried out. The Standard in an article on the Eastern question declares that if Russia extorts any unfair concessions' from the Porte, England will swiftly render them nugatory. The situation is causing alarm to the European Powers. The Maybrick committee have instructed their solicitors to test the validity of Mrs Maybrick's imprisonment. Sir Charles Russell and Sir Horace,Davy have been retained on her behalf.

Dr MacLagan, Archbishop of York, was enthroned to-day. Adelina Patti has signed an American engagement for £IOOO a night. Cardinal Manning says that the welfare of the world's labor is next in importance to its progress in religion.

Sir Charles Dilke in the course of an article says that the French soldier is the finest material in Europe. Sept. 16.

Baron Hirsch advises the Russian Jews to have patience and not attempt a headlong reckless flight from the country. He warns those who ignore the action of the organised committee working with the consent of the Government, that they will not be assisted. The emigration must take small proportions, but it will become larger later on. Mr Arnold White, Hirsch's agent in Russia, asserts that the ukase against the Jews is being enforced with constantly increasing severity. He failed to obtain an audience with the Czar.

The 35 tons of silver, which was conveyed from Valparaiso by H.M.S. Espiegle, has been desposited in the safe of the Bank of England. Rich gold reefs have been discovered at Errisbeg, Connemara,' ( County. Galway. An Australian iron syndicate, with a capital of £15,000, is projected, for the purpose of securing the rights of Mr Charles Mitchell, of Armstrong, Mitchell and Co., the famous iron manufacturers, to work the iron deposits in New South Wales. Sir John Steele, R.S.A., sculptor to Her Majesty for Scotland, is dead, aged 87. Paris, Sept. 15. Le Temps states that Mr Stanley is organising a Congo expedition on behalf of the King of the Belgians. Sept. 17. The efforts of the supporters of General Boulanger to prevent the production of " Lohengrin " in the Paris theatres are extremely violent. The audience received the opera with enthusiasm, and outside the theatre a great crowd collected. Insulting references to the Emperor William's speech were hissed by the audience. Eleven hundred persons were temporarily in custody. Madrid, Sept. 15. Appalling scenes are being witnessed in the flooded districts of Spain. In one house a family of eleven were found clinging together after the water had subsided. The Queen has contributed largely to the relief fund. The Government are utilising all available funds to mitigate the distress, and troops have been sent to bury the dead. The railway stations are being used by the refugees. The ruin in the valley of Armar Giullo is enormous. Sept. 16. Three thousand people were drowned by the floods at Consuegra. Four thousand families at Consuegra are rendered homeless. The place presents a frightful scene. Hundreds of bodies are floating about, and robbers are pillaging in all directions. Women and children are dying of hunger. The Government are empowering the Governors of the stricken provinces to expend money in the relief of the distressed. Berlin, Sept. 15. The Government will prosecute the Berlin Punch for pnblishing a coarse cartoon of the " Holy Coat," on the ground of wounding the sensibilities of Catholic subjects. Sept. 17. The efforts to bring about a reconciliation between the Emperor and Prince Bismarck have up to the present been unsuccessful. Rome, Sept. 15.

The Enercitto, a military organ counsels the Government to prepare for war, and to subordinate everything to that necessity.

Sept. 16. Fierce storms have been raging in Northern Italy, and the country round Turin is being inundated. St. Petersburg, Sept. 15. Thousands of the Stundist Sect are joining the Orthodox Greek Church in consequence of a persecution which is being instituted by the order of the Czar. Paloff, leader of the Baptists, who was sentenced to four years' banishment to Siberia, has received a second term for refusing to abstain from preaching. Brigandage and murder are prevalent in the famine stricken districts of Russia. Women are openly assaulted and stripped. The rye harvest has entirely failed in 13 provinces. Sept. 17. It is alleged that in return for the Dardanelles concession the Czar has abandoned, a large amount of the arrears of the Turkish indemnity. | Constantinople, Sept. 16. Information has reached here that an immense petroleum reservoir at Batoum, a port on the Asiatic coast of the Black Sea, is on fire, and menaces the town.

Hong Kong, Sept. 15. The Great Powers have renewed their protest to the Chinese Government against the continued outrages, and unless prevented they threaten a, naval display. The Chinese Government have protested urgently against an armed force being sent Tchang. It is expected that the Chinese navy will be immediately mobilised. Ottawa, Sept. 16. The petition adopted by the Dominion Parliament to the Queen, asking her Majesty to abolish " the most favoured nation" clause in commercial treaties, declared that the retention of such a clause obstructed the extension of Canadian trade. The Committee of Enquiry find that there has been conspiracy to defraud the Government, and recommend the prosecution of the offenders. A schooner capsized off the coast of Nova Scotia and fourteen men were drowned. Washington, Sept. 16. San Francisco advices state that an American shot an Englishman in a street row. Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 16. The s.s. Duke of Sutherland sailed to-day for London, with her cargo of frozen meat in good condition. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Sept. 16. In their official report on the loss of the barque Ellen, the Board express the opinion that the vessel was dangerously leaky, under-manned, and insufficiently provided with officers; that she was improperly handled in the gale, and that such irregularity and want of discipline were the consequences of the incapacity of the officers through the effects of drink. The Board considered it was not prudent to send the barque to sea j with such a cargo, though the owner acted well within the law. Admiral Scott denies that any court-martial has been held on the cruiser Mildura. There was merely a semi-official enquiry. Some of the stokers say that they were abused like dogs because they failed to keep steam up. The captain states it was rather hot in the Red Sea, bufc he had to keep time by order of the Admiralty. The highest temperature in the stoke hole was 159, but that was only temporary. There seems to have been nothing more serious than a growl on the part of the men. The Assembly rejected the second ballot in the Representation Bill by 72 to 17. Reports in connection with the census show the private wealth of the colony to be £407,405,000 and the public wealth to be £172,895,000 exclusive of £6,400,000 municipal properties. The private wealth is equal to £363 per head of population and the public £154. Since the 1881 census the total increase has been equal to 100 per cent and 45 per cent per head. The increase is without precedent in any part of the world. The indebtedness of the colony is £46,000,000 and the public debt is not greater than 7.8 per cent, of the total wealth and little more than 26 per cent, of the available assets at the disposal of the State. Melbourne, Sept. 17. The Argus devotes a long article to the Bryce episode, in which it attributes blame to the Speaker, and declares that had he shown firmness in dealing with the question of privilege, the whole affiair would have been avoided. Both England and Italy Have cannons of seventeen inohes calibre, which throw projectiles weighing 2,000 pounds. These are the largest guns in the world. Their range is understood to be between ten and twelve miles.

LABOUR. j London, Sept. 12. I Sir John Grant is enquiring into the' labour question at .Cork, where a meeting, of the Trades Council is being held. Ottawa, Sept. 15. Three thousand five hundred lumbermen struck for higher wages and shorter, hours. I Sept. 16. The lumbermen on strike are very dis-" orderly, and the Militia have been ordered out. Auckland, Sept; 16. ( The boot operatives strike has virtually ended. The local executive of the Bootmakers' Uuion have decided to accept the employers' statement to allow the men to ; return to work. The reason given is lack of funds to carry on the payment of strikers. The strike lasted six months and cost £6OOO. * : —— | THE SITUATION IN EUROPE. I Berlin, Sept. 16. i The German presß says that, supposing , the rumoured occupation of Mitylene had been true, Germany would not have objected. Rome, Sept. 16. The Italian Government have ordered twelve torpedo boats. The organs of the Italian Government unanimously support the proposed increase of taxatian by £200,000 for war purposes. t' St. Petersburg, Sept. 16. M. De Giers, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, will shortly pay a visit to Paris. Paris, Sept. 16. In French and Turkish diplomatic circles the manoeuvres of the British fleet at Mitylene are regarded as a warning to the Sultan of England's probable action in the future. THF CHILIAN AFFAIRS. London, Sept. 19. The German, French, and Italian Governments have recognised the Chilian Junta. Captain Olsen, of the Hero, bound from Newcastle to Chili, has arrived at Plymouth. He asserts that loyalists seized the vessel and forced the crew to run her ashore, whereupon her cargo of coal was seized. The vessel was floated off but was wrecked. Captain Olsen is taking measures to recover damages. Valpariso, Sept. 15. It is reported that Balmaceda has been hidden in Valparaiso and has just escaped j to the American flagship, disguised as a drunken sailor. He is expected to land at Callao. It is stated that Balmaceda surrendered to the British flagship, and pleaded on. his knees for mercy and to be taken on board. m Sept. 16. The Junta are endeavouring to seize 800,000 dollars worth of bullion, said to belong to Balmaceda, at Santiago.