TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2324, 27 February 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Feb. 23. Professor Morland, ex-tutor at Oxford University, who was arrested a few days ago on a charge of blackmailing Lord Hotsfield is to be proceeded against on further charges of blackmailing Lords Cilfton, Chesterfield, Carnarvon, Aylesford, and Russell. The hearing of the firsi charge came on to-day, when it was proved that Morland had undergone a sentence some time ago for perjury. The magistrate remarked/H-hat thp Treasury ought to prosecute. The accussed was remanded. The Lidderdale who is missing is a banker at Ilminster, in Somersetshire, and not the son of the Governor of the Bank of England. The Marquis of Blandford, son and heir of the Duke of Marlborough, has applied to Mr Justice Butt for an order to compel his father to make an increase in his annual allowance of £3BO, but his Honor decided that he had no jurisdiction in the matter. The creditors of William Perry and Co., the Sydney merchants, unanimously passed a resolution agreeing to accept 15s in the £ on unsecured claims. Universal sympathy is exexpressed with the firm in their misfortune. The mail steamer Kaiser Wilhelm, which went ashore at the mouth of the Scheldt river, has been floated, and proceeded on her voyage. Mr Wise, formerly AttorneyGeneral of New South Wales, addressed a meeting at Slough, in Buckinghamshire, at the invitation of the Home Counties Liberal Union. Lord Carrington presided. Mr Wise said that the refusal to grant autonomy to Ireland would create perpetual discord in the United States and Australia, and he ridiculed. the fear entertained by the Marquis of Salisbury and Lord Knutsford that the granting of autonomy would cause a secession of the colonies. He considered that Mr Gladstone’s foreign policy was the best for Australia, as it was to her interest to maintain friendship with France. Feb, 24. The campaigns which have been organised by the Liberal party in London and counties in view of the general elections are being conducted on an extensive scale. The meetings are largely attended and the proceedings charaterised by . great enthusiasm. The party are growing in confidence that they will gain the victory, .

Lord Glasgow, the new Governor of New Zealand, has been made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St George. Signor Foli and Sir Gibson Craig have sailed for Australia by the S.S., Ophir. Obituary—Sir Henry Cotton, late Lord Justice of Appeal. Feb. 25. The Irish National League in America offer to appeal for funds to assist the Irish party in the forthcoming general election in England, on condition that neither the Macarthyites nor Parnellites apply the money in fighting each other. Eriquez, leader of the revolt in Guatemala, and twenty of his followers, have been shot. Paris, Feb. 23. Publicists desire to see an antL Clerical Premier, on the ground that the relations between France and Italy will be improved by such a course. The French Monarchists have issued a reply to the Encyclical of the Pope exhorting the clergy to support the Republic on the ground that it is the established form of Government. They pertinently retort that the Pope himself declines to accept his subjection to the Kingdom of Italy, and that the arguments in the Encyclical are only applicable to religious and not to political questions, Feb. 25, A qauntity of arms and dynamite has been discovered at the residence of Anarchists in several parts of the city. M. de Freycinet having declined the responsibility of forming a new Cabinet, M. Rouvier, Minister of Finance, has been summoned. It is expected that M. Freycinet, Minister of War, M. Ribot, Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Constans, Minister of the Interior, and M. de Ville, Minister of Agriculture, will retain their Portfolios. A dynamite plot h». beell ais _ covered here, bav;; lg for jts purpose the destruction of the Spanish embassy in revenge for the execution of the Xeres Anarchists. One arrest of a ringleader has been made. Lisbon, Feb. 24. Yiscomselles. a former director of the Portuguese Railway has committed suicide. He was involved [ in some scandals which came to light » recently.

Madrid, Feb. 23. The authorities have seized large quantities of arms which the Anarchists had concealed in the cities of Isla de Leon and Cadiz in the south of Spain. Severe floods have occurred in , Spain, and the farmers have sustained enormous losses. Berlin, Feb. 23. A number of murders of a similar character to those perpetrated by the Schneiders in Vienna have been discovered at Madgeburg. A man and woman have been arrested. Schweiger, a broker, was sentenced 4.Q four years’ imprisonment for a fraud upon the Deutsche Bank, which was discovered last July. St. Petersburg, Feb. 23. Count Tolstoi has been banished to his estate for publishing details of the famine, Calcutta, Feb. 24. News from Burraah states that a > British column relieved Sodon after , sharp fighting with the Kacchoyins whom they drove out of a strongly intrenched position. The British loss was.s killed and 2G wounded, while that of the enemy is estimated at rather more, Capetown, Feb. 23. The theatre has been destroyed by fire and Mrs Brown-Potter’s wardrobe was burnt. New York. Feb. 23. The New York Democratic Convention has adopted Governor Hill as its candidate for the Presidency of the United States, AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Feb. 23. Intense heat has prevailed throughout the country during the past week. Melbourne, Feb. 24. A deputation requested the Premier Mr Shiels, to grant £19,000 for the representation of Victoria at the Chicago Exhibition. Mr Shiels declined to do more than carry out Mr Munro’s proposal, that if exhibitors subscribed £5,000 the Government would give £15,000. The deputation stated they were unable to collect that sum, whereupon Mr Shiels said personally he thought the money could be better spent in the colony itself ,at the present time. Brisbane, Feb. 25. The Government have acquiesced in proposals for the laying of a cable from Queensland to California or Canada. The promoter of the scheme, who is believed to represent a Cork syndicate, is only awaiting New South Wales’s agreement to the proposals preparatory to commencing the work. Port Douglas, situated about the centre of the coast of Trinity Bay, has been visited by a cyclone, and several buildings were wrecked and many others injured, Hobart, Feb. 25. The Circe, from Greymouth, was totally wrecked atMacquarrie Harbour on Saturday. She struck the bar and heavy rollers toppled her over. The crew had barely time to escape, and lost all their effects. Owing to the numerous wrecks at Macquarrie, the Marine Department has now deckled to station a pilot there.